Since you are interested in Chamber Works [incls 'Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet'], here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
KALEVI AHO
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 13 Antti Siirala (piano) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] With fifteen symphonies in his oeuvre to date, as well as numerous other orchestral pieces, Kalevi Aho is one of today's most important composers of orchestral music. |
KALEVI AHO
Symphony No 9 / Concerto for cello and orchestra Christian Lindberg (trombone) Gary Hoffman (cello) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/1995 ] An incomparable virtuoso of the trombone, Christian Lindberg mesmerizes audiences and orchestras all over the world with his charismatic performances of a wide repertoire ranging from the classics to adventurous contemporary works. |
KALEVI AHO
Symphonic Dances / Symphony No.11 for six percussionists and orchestra Kroumata Percussion Ensemble / Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vanska [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] "A superb coupling of two strongly communicative contemporary works" Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
KALEVI AHO
Symphony No.12 ˜Luosto Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Chamber Orchestra of Lapland / John Storga¥rds [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2008 ] "Aho's Twelfth Symphony is tailor-made for surround sound. Scoring it for soprano, tenor and two orchestras...it creates a truely awesome spectacular, especially as Bis's engineering is so spectacular and atmosphere at all dynamic levels."... |
KALEVI AHO / CARL NIELSEN
Aho/Nielsen: Clarinet Concertos Martin Frost (clarinet) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Martin Fröst and Osmo Vänskä again prove a most persuasive partnership in this latest collaboration. There is something utterly idiomatic about Fröst's approach to the Nielsen, while he announces the Aho as a major concerto for the new century. At... |
KALEVI AHO
Tuba Concerto / Contrabassoon Concerto Lewis Lipnick (contrabassoon) aËœystein Baadsvik (tuba) Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "The recordings are superb, and well up to BIS's own high standards. Collectors of this label's ongoing range of releases by this composer will already have this disc on their wish-list, and will most certainly not be disappointed. Former... |
KALEVI AHO
Concert for Chamber Orchestra / Symphony No.14, 'Rituaaleja' Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) Herman Rechberger (darabuka & djembe) Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic (viola) / Chamber Orchestra of Lapland / John Storgards [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "Rituals finds the composer at the very peak of his powers; throw in exemplary music-making and fine sonics and you have a very special disc indeed." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb June 2009) |
HOGBERG / SANDSTROM / AHO
21st-Century Tuba Concertos Oystein Baadsvik (tuba) / Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra / Mats Rondin [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Øystein Baadsvik started playing the tuba at the age of fifteen. He soon decided to explore the tuba's possibilities as a solo instrument and, at the age of eighteen, he won the first prize in a Norwegian national competition for soloists. |
AHO / ANDRIESSEN / ARNOLD / BACH / BERIO / BOZZA
Solo Flute - From A to Z Volume 1 Sharon Bezaly (flute) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2001 ] "To those who love the sound of the modern flute, flawlessly played, this admirably recorded collection will be very satisfying" (Gramophone) |