Aulis Sallinen turned 70 in 2005, and Barabbas Dialogues is one of his later pieces, composed in 2002 and 2003. Sallinen was one of the first composers who came of age in the era of the so-called "International Style," only to ultimately turn his back on the "dreaded system," and he did so without the benefit of minimalist techniques. As such, Sallinen is one of the godfathers of early twenty-first century European composition, and every new Sallinen work is an event, with CPO's Barabbas Dialogues representing the debut on ...
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Aulis Sallinen turned 70 in 2005, and Barabbas Dialogues is one of his later pieces, composed in 2002 and 2003. Sallinen was one of the first composers who came of age in the era of the so-called "International Style," only to ultimately turn his back on the "dreaded system," and he did so without the benefit of minimalist techniques. As such, Sallinen is one of the godfathers of early twenty-first century European composition, and every new Sallinen work is an event, with CPO's Barabbas Dialogues representing the debut on disc of a particularly good one.Barabbas Dialogues was inspired by the new Finnish edition of the Holy Bible, the first clear translation of the original biblical texts not compromised by the influence of piety so common to Christian churches in Nordic lands. Although the New Testament has little to say about Barabbas, the condemned prisoner liberated by the crowd that sent Jesus Christ to his crucifixion, Sallinen and his collaborator, poet Lassi Nummi, have done a fine job of...
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