The most devoted fans of Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen (born in 1935) may well already have the five previously released discs collected in this set, but anyone just discovering the composer is likely to want to hear this compilation of his eight symphonies, plus several concertos, and a handful of orchestral works. Sallinen is a fluent, inventive, skillful composer and a masterful orchestrator, but the picture that emerges from this collection of much of his orchestral output covering over 30 years does not demonstrate a ...
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The most devoted fans of Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen (born in 1935) may well already have the five previously released discs collected in this set, but anyone just discovering the composer is likely to want to hear this compilation of his eight symphonies, plus several concertos, and a handful of orchestral works. Sallinen is a fluent, inventive, skillful composer and a masterful orchestrator, but the picture that emerges from this collection of much of his orchestral output covering over 30 years does not demonstrate a particularly distinctive voice. It's possible to hear echoes of the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, but without the daring iconoclasm and individuality they brought to their best work. Sallinen's music in his symphonies and concerti is rarely explicitly programmatic, but it is frequently vividly pictorial. It often has a cinematic quality that is something of a lingua franca of late 20th century composers who never abandoned tonality: an accessible lyricism that employs...
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