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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Uuno Klami - Symphony No. 1; King Lear Overture (Tuomas Hannikainen)


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Composer: Uuno Klami
  1. Symphony No. 1: I. Allegro non troppo
  2. Symphony No. 1: II. Prestissimo
  3. Symphony No. 1: III. Andante molto
  4. Symphony No. 1: IV. Allegro maestoso
  5. King Lear Overture, Op. 33

Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, conductor

Date: 1995
Label: Ondine
https://www.ondine.net/index.php?lid=en&cid=2.2&oid=4221

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Review

“The first thing to be said is that there is nothing in the symphony to remind one of Sibelius.” So opines Helena Tyrvainen in her notes on Uuno Klami’s First Symphony (1937-8), but for many listeners even the most casual acquaintance will suggest quite the contrary. Granted the form and structure of Klami’s work has little to do with any of Sibelius’s seven, even the First with which it shares an awareness of nineteenth-century Russian symphonism. Klami adopts a lyric, non-epic approach, closer in spirit to Melartin’s earlier symphonies, or even Madetoja. None the less, the language is reminiscent of Sibelius, even to the use of pulsing horn chords and pedals, and brought to my mind the minor tone-poems and incidental music, for instance the Dance Intermezzo or Swanwhite. That said, there are as many traces of Russian music (rather more dear to Klami’s heart), and in the finale a passage that would not be out of place in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

Klami was a noted exponent of neo-classicism, but you would scarcely know that from either the symphony or the later King Lear Overture (1944-5; the third piece Klami composed on this Shakespearean subject). I am not sure I would have guessed the subject from the music, which has a generally tragic-dramatic atmosphere. The performances and recording are both splendid; a valuable addition to the catalogue.

-- Gramophone

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Uuno Klami (20 September 1900 – 29 May 1961) was a Finnish composer. Klami studied music in Helsinki with Erkki Melartin and later in Paris and Vienna. His main works include the Kalevala Suite and the unfinished ballet Whirls. Klami also wrote two symphonies (1938 and 1945) and Symphonie enfantine (1927), two piano concertos and one Violin Concerto (1943). His energetic Karelian Rhapsody was the first Finnish orchestral work to be published in Finland. Klami was influenced by French and Spanish music, and especially by Maurice Ravel, for whom he had a particular esteem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuno_Klami

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Tuomas Hannikainen (formerly Ollila; born March 10, 1965 in Myrskylä) is a Finnish conductor and violinist. Hannikainen completed a violin diploma at the Sibelius Academy in 1988 and a conductor diploma in 1991 with Jorma Panula. He also studied with Ilya Musin at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1990–92). Hannikainen served as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra from 1994 to 1998. He has been one of the four conductors of the Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra since 2009, and artistic director of the Joroinen Music Festival since 2011.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Hannikainen

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