New Album Releases: SCENES FROM THE KALEVALA (Sinfonia Lahti & Dima Slobodeniouk)

Artist:
Sinfonia Lahti
Dima Slobodeniouk

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
70:41

Record Label:
BIS

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
November 5, 2021

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Product Description: The Kalevala is a compilation of mostly original folk poetry, arranged into fifty extensive runos (‘poems’) by the Finnish physician and folklorist Elias Lönnrot. Beginning with the creation of the world, it develops into a series of separate episodes which nevertheless form a rich whole, introducing epic characters such as Väinämöinen, Lemminkäinen and Kullervo. The collection first appeared in 1835, with a final, extended version being published in 1849, and was soon hailed as Finland’s ‘national epos’ – a sensitive matter given that the country had been subjected to Russian rule since 1809. It came to play a major part in Finland’s national awakening and had a massive influence on Finnish art in the late 19th century, but its role in the national consciousness remains important even today. The present album, from the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk, brings together Kalevala-related works spanning the period between 1897 and 1943. No such collection could overlook Sibelius, who composed several works inspired by the epos. Included here is a rarity – the first recording of the 1897 version of Lemminkäinen in Tuonela, from the Lemminkäinen Suite. Finnish composers from later generations all had to find a way out from under Sibelius’s shadow – especially so when composing works based on the Kalevala. The portraits of Kullervo which bookend the disc, by Leevi Madetoja and Tauno Pylkkänen, are both compact works in contrast to Sibelius’s large-scale ‘choral symphony’ on the same theme, and when Uuno Klami used bold and primitive colors in his five-movement Kalevala Suite, he was looking towards Stravinsky rather than his countryman.

TRACK LIST:

1 . Kullervo, Op. 15 . 2 . Kalevala Suite, Op. 23: I. Maan synty (6:40)

3 . Kalevala Suite, Op. 23: II. Kevään oras (4:37)

4 . Kalevala Suite, Op. 23: III. Terhenniemi (6:46)

5 . Kalevala Suite, Op. 23: IV. Kehtolaulu Lemminkäiselle (5:20)

6 . Kalevala Suite, Op. 23: V. Sammon taonta (6:04)

7 . Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22: III. Lemminkäinen in Tuonela (1897 .Version) 8 . Kullervon sotaanlähtö, Op. 20 .

Scenes from the Kalevala Sinfonia Lahti Dima Slobodeniouk

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