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Klami: Symphonie Enfantine / Hommage A Handel / Suite for Strings / Suite for Small Orchestra

9/30/1998, 14 Tracks, 1:01:49

Featuring

  • Jean-Jacques Kantorow
  • Timo Koskinen
  • Tapiola Sinfonietta
  • Uuno Klami

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Recording & Production

The Tapiola Sinfonietta has released numerous recordings, primarily for the BIS label, and is recognized as a champion of 20th-century music.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Klami's music is sparkling, richly scored, and often tinted by an ambiguous, half-concealed humor, contrasting with his reserved and taciturn personality.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Uuno Klami, a Finnish composer, decided to become a composer while still in primary school, despite receiving little musical stimulation in his home village.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Jean-Jacques Kantorow, the artistic director of the Tapiola Sinfonietta since 1993, is a French violinist and conductor of Russian extraction who has won numerous international prizes.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Tapiola Sinfonietta, founded in 1988, aimed to distinguish itself from other Finnish municipal orchestras in both repertoire and sonority.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Klami's compositional style is unique among Finnish composers, showing no points of contact with their styles.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Klami interrupted his studies at the Helsinki Conservatory to serve in the Estonian War of Independence in 1918 and the Aunus Campaign in 1919.

Source: Booklet

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