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Byline: Lawson Taitte
AHO "Symphony No. 3" Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Vanska (Bis CD-1186) Grade: A
This is one of those discoveries that make you want to run out to the store or onto a Web site and buy everything ever written by the composer you had hardly heard of before.
Kalevi Aho, a Finn born in 1949, has been one of the major symphonists in the country with the most orchestras per capita in the world. This piece, finished when he was only 24, is subtitled Sinfonia concertante for violin and orchestra.
It has become a cliche that violin concertos, especially in the 20th century, often depict the lonely individual struggling for an ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Reviews of new classical music releases.(The Dallas Morning News)