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Why did Erkki Melartin, an exact contemporary of Ravel (in birth and death, 1875-1937) never achieve fame beyond the borders of Finland? Was it because he "dared" to be a Finnish composer who didn't take after his elder compatriot Sibelius in any way? And indeed, his apparently amiable, obliging, open character can't have lent itself to pushing himself onto centre stage, even though he wrote six symphonies, an opera, a ballet, several symphonic poems, a piano concerto, orchestral suites, chamber music and piano works, as well as a huge number of melodies. Amongst these, several were written in Swedish rather than in Finnish - bear in mind that both are official languages in Sweden - and they are sung here by Hedvig Paulig, accompanied by Ilmo Ranta on the piano, who is joined by violinist Jan Söderblom for the Tagore Songs cycle, based on the words of the 1913 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore. Melartin's aesthetics occasionally borrow from the stock of Nordic folklore (real or imagined) but also from oriental sources, "impressionism" à la française, late Romanticism and German expressionism: in short, the composer deploys a thousand different languages, rendering any classification of his work very complicated. Which is certainly no reason to give it a miss! © SM/Qobuz
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Mellan friska blomster, Op. 172, No. 2 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
5 Songs, Op. 14 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Törnet, Op. 170, No. 3 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
6 Songs, Op. 116 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
3 Songs, Op. 86 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
8 Songs, Op. 122 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
3 Songs, Op. 96 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
4 Tagore Songs, Op. 105 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Jan Söderblom, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Jan Söderblom, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Jan Söderblom, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Jan Söderblom, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
4 Songs, Op. 117 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
New Songs, Op. 21 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
2 Songs, Op. 3 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
4 Songs, Op. 151 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Mot alla stjärnor (All the stars this night), Op. 73, No. 3 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
3 Songs, Op. 77 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Vallarelåt, Op. 42, No. 1 (Distant Song) (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Från lägerbålet i öknen (From a campfire in the desert), Op. 78, No. 1 (Erkki Melartin)
Erkki MELARTIN, Composer - Ilmo Ranta, Artist - Jan Söderblom, Artist - Hedvig Paulig, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
Albumbeschreibung
Why did Erkki Melartin, an exact contemporary of Ravel (in birth and death, 1875-1937) never achieve fame beyond the borders of Finland? Was it because he "dared" to be a Finnish composer who didn't take after his elder compatriot Sibelius in any way? And indeed, his apparently amiable, obliging, open character can't have lent itself to pushing himself onto centre stage, even though he wrote six symphonies, an opera, a ballet, several symphonic poems, a piano concerto, orchestral suites, chamber music and piano works, as well as a huge number of melodies. Amongst these, several were written in Swedish rather than in Finnish - bear in mind that both are official languages in Sweden - and they are sung here by Hedvig Paulig, accompanied by Ilmo Ranta on the piano, who is joined by violinist Jan Söderblom for the Tagore Songs cycle, based on the words of the 1913 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore. Melartin's aesthetics occasionally borrow from the stock of Nordic folklore (real or imagined) but also from oriental sources, "impressionism" à la française, late Romanticism and German expressionism: in short, the composer deploys a thousand different languages, rendering any classification of his work very complicated. Which is certainly no reason to give it a miss! © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 00:53:15
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Hedvig Paulig Ilmo Ranta Jan Soderblom
- Composer: Erkki Melartin
- Label: Toccata Classics
- Genre: Klassiek
(C) 2018 Toccata Classics (P) 2018 Toccata Classics
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