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Pekka Kuusisto|Rautavaara : "Summer Thoughts" - Oeuvres pour violon et piano

Rautavaara : "Summer Thoughts" - Oeuvres pour violon et piano

Pekka Kuusisto - Paavali Jumppanen

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This release on Finnish label Ondine offers Einojuhani Rautavaara's complete works for violin and piano. This isn't a large group, and even the composer's chamber works in general are not numerous. Accordingly the collection of music here is something of a miscellany, and the buyer new to Rautavaara will probably find that his genius reveals itself better in larger genres. This said, fans of the composer will find much of interest here. Among the highlights is Rautavaara's very first published work, Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), a suite for piano from 1952. The work consists of variations, one each, on six traditional Finnish fiddle tunes, and violinist Pekka Kuusisto here had the inspired idea to pair the variations with the fiddle tunes themselves. For listeners may not have the sound of Finnish folk music in their heads, this brings out the imagination of these little pieces, whose luminous tone took them far beyond the world of Bartók in which they were probably based. Lost Landscapes, composed in 2005 for violinist Midori, comes from the other end of Rautavaara's career; it fits depictions of four of Rautavaara's temporary homes -- Tanglewood in Massachusetts, Ascona (Switzerland), Vienna, and New York City -- into his winding, contrapuntal style. In between are a variety of short pieces, several of them written for competition settings; they boil Rautavaara's spacious style down to the simple dimensions of the violin-and-piano duet. Kuusisto's playing is a major attraction here; he cultivates a wiry yet attractive tone that seems tailor-made for Rautavaara. Ondine's engineering is at its usual high level.
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Lost Landscapes (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

1
I. Tanglewood
00:05:59

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

2
II. Ascona
00:06:18

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

3
III. Rainergasse 11, Vienna
00:05:22

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

4
IV. West 23rd Street, NY
00:03:03

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Summer Thoughts (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

5
Summer Thoughts
00:04:35

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

April Lines (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

6
April Lines
00:09:04

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Notturno e Danza (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

7
Notturno
00:05:15

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

8
Danza
00:02:11

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Varietude (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

9
Varietude
00:06:08

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Dithyrambos (version for violin and piano) (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

10
Dithyrambos (version for violin and piano)
00:02:27

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Narbolaisten braa speli (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

11
Narbolaisten braa speli
00:01:50

Traditional, Composer - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), Op. 1 (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

12
I. Narbolaisten Braa Speli
00:01:30

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Kopsin Jonas (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

13
Kopsin Jonas
00:02:36

Traditional, Composer - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), Op. 1 (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

14
II. Kopsin Jonas
00:01:42

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Jacob Konni (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

15
Jacob Konni
00:01:39

Traditional, Composer - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), Op. 1 (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

16
III. Jacob Konni
00:01:38

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Klockar Samuel Dikstrom (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

17
Klockar Samuel Dikstrom
00:02:23

Traditional, Composer - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), Op. 1 (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

18
IV. Klockar Samuel Dikstrom
00:01:06

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Pirun polska (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

19
Pirun polska
00:02:11

Traditional, Composer - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), Op. 1 (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

20
V. Pirun Polska
00:01:31

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Hypyt (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

21
Hypyt
00:00:55

Traditional, Composer - Pekka Kuusisto, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), Op. 1 (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

22
VI. Hypyt
00:00:55

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA, Composer - Paavali Jumppanen, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2011 Ondine (P) 2011 Ondine

Album review

This release on Finnish label Ondine offers Einojuhani Rautavaara's complete works for violin and piano. This isn't a large group, and even the composer's chamber works in general are not numerous. Accordingly the collection of music here is something of a miscellany, and the buyer new to Rautavaara will probably find that his genius reveals itself better in larger genres. This said, fans of the composer will find much of interest here. Among the highlights is Rautavaara's very first published work, Pelimannit (The Fiddlers), a suite for piano from 1952. The work consists of variations, one each, on six traditional Finnish fiddle tunes, and violinist Pekka Kuusisto here had the inspired idea to pair the variations with the fiddle tunes themselves. For listeners may not have the sound of Finnish folk music in their heads, this brings out the imagination of these little pieces, whose luminous tone took them far beyond the world of Bartók in which they were probably based. Lost Landscapes, composed in 2005 for violinist Midori, comes from the other end of Rautavaara's career; it fits depictions of four of Rautavaara's temporary homes -- Tanglewood in Massachusetts, Ascona (Switzerland), Vienna, and New York City -- into his winding, contrapuntal style. In between are a variety of short pieces, several of them written for competition settings; they boil Rautavaara's spacious style down to the simple dimensions of the violin-and-piano duet. Kuusisto's playing is a major attraction here; he cultivates a wiry yet attractive tone that seems tailor-made for Rautavaara. Ondine's engineering is at its usual high level.
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