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Jaakko Kuusisto - Symphony


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This disc is a double tribute. The first work, Pictured Within, is a collective effort conceived as a major project to mark the 60th birthday of conductor Martyn Brabbins, whose reputation in new music and British music is beyond reproach. Following the pattern of Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Pictured Within is a series of 14 variations on a theme, each of which takes up the character of the equivalent variation in Elgar’s work, the difference being that here 14 different composers have each contributed a variation in tribute to Brabbins.
Also on the SACD is Jaakko Kuusisto’s Symphony, a fitting tribute to the composer, conductor and violinist who passed away in 2022. Illness left Jaakko no time to complete his work, so it fell to his brother Pekka – who conducts here – and Jari Eskola to finish it. The result is a powerful piece, full of familiar themes and melodies derived from Jaakko’s existing compositions, to which are added autobiographical extra-musical elements. The moving conclusion is a collage of fragmented phrases inspired by the signals emitted by lighthouses and ships, as if Kuusisto’s spirit had been sent out to sea.
 
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  Composer: Anonymous, various composers
  Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B. 39:30
01 Theme 01:33 $ 0.23 USD
02 Variation 1: tact 60 02:40 $ 0.40 USD
03 Variation 2 00:58 $ 0.15 USD
04 Variation 3 01:48 $ 0.27 USD
05 Variation 4 00:50 $ 0.13 USD
06 Variation 5 02:08 $ 0.32 USD
07 Variation 6 02:42 $ 0.41 USD
08 Variation 7 02:07 $ 0.32 USD
09 Variation 8 02:41 $ 0.40 USD
10 Variation 9 05:03 $ 0.76 USD
11 Variation 10: Sixty Salutations 02:57 $ 0.44 USD
12 Variation 11 01:13 $ 0.18 USD
13 Variation 12 03:09 $ 0.47 USD
14 Variation 13 03:46 $ 0.57 USD
15 Variation 14: The Art of Beginning 05:55 $ 0.89 USD
 
 
  Composer: Kuusisto, Jaakko
  Symphony, Op. 39 26:55
16 I. 08:54 $ 1.34 USD
17 II. Lento 18:01 $ 2.70 USD
 
  Album total 66:32
ComposerAho, Kalevi
Anonymous
Beamish, Sally
Birtwistle, Harrison
Blackford, Richard
Bryars, Gavin
Dean, Brett
Fujikura, Dai
Henderickx, Wim
Kuusisto, Jaakko
Matthews, Colin
Payne, Anthony
Pickard, John
Sawer, David
Schiphorst, Iris ter
Weir, Judith
various composers
OrchestraBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Helsingin Filharmonikot)
ConductorBrabbins, Martyn
Kuusisto, Pekka

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