Sumera: Musica Tenera / Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 4

Featuring

Paavo Järvi
Jan Olof Jonsson
Malmö SymfoniOrkester
Lepo Sumera

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Performer Biography

The Malmö Symphony Orchestra, featured on this album, has won international prizes for its records and was praised by critics during a German tour as a model for German orchestras.

Performer Biography

Paavo Järvi, the conductor, studied at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute with notable figures like Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lepo Sumera, the composer, aimed for a stylistic synthesis of historical and contemporary compositional devices, with modality as the starting point for his music.

Performer Biography

Kalle Randalu, the pianist on this recording, won the competition for young pianists in Czechoslovakia in 1971 and later won prizes at major competitions including the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Compositional Technique

Lepo Sumera's symphonies often feature a soloistic treatment of a particular instrument to create an individual timbre world, such as the electric guitar in his Fourth Symphony.

Composer Biography

Lepo Sumera, the composer, served as Estonia's minister of culture from 1988-1992, during which time his country transitioned from a Soviet satellite state to an independent republic.