Bashmakov / Sonninen / Kokkonen / Segerstam: Finnish Wind Music

Featuring

Gunilla von Bahr
Rainer Kuisma
Stig Westerberg
Solveig Faringer
Paavo Pohjola
Mona Nordin

Zahari Tchavdarov
Elemér Lavotha
Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
Helsinki Wind Quintet
Leonid Bashmakov
Ahti Sonninen
Joonas Kokkonen
Leif Segerstam

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Composer Biography

After a productive period as a student, Leonid Bashmakov experienced ten years of compositional silence, which ended with his Second Symphony (1963-65).

Composer's Artistic Vision

Joonas Kokkonen's Wind Quintet, while not using subsidiary instruments or unusual playing techniques, carefully explores the tonal possibilities of the wind quintet within traditional limits.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Leif Segerstam describes his work 'A NNNNOOOOOWWW' as written in a 'FREEPULSATIVE' style, allowing for spontaneous enrichment of the pulsation-content during interpretation.

Composition History

Ahti Sonninen's 'El amor pasa' was inspired by a friend's complaint about the lack of songs with solo flute accompaniment and poems by Spanish author Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

Composition History

Joonas Kokkonen composed his Wind Quintet for the Oslo group Den Norske Blåsekvintett, who commissioned it under an internordic scheme for new music.

Composer Biography

Leonid Bashmakov, a Finnish composer and conductor, studied composition, piano, and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Instruments

The album features a violin made by Lorenzo Storioni in Cremona in 1780, played by Paavo Pohjola, and another by C.A. Testore from Milan in 1750, played by Mona Nordin.