Uuno Klami - 'Whirls' Ballet Suites; etc. (Osmo Vänskä)

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Composer: Uuno Klami

• (01) Lemminkäinen's Island Adventures
• (02) Song of Lake Kuujärvi
• (03) Suites No. 1 from the Ballet 'Whirls'
• (09) Suites No. 2 from the Ballet 'Whirls'

Esa Ruuttunen, baritone (2)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor

Date: 1994
Label: BIS
http://bis.se/composer/klami-uuno/klami-whirls

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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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Osmo Vänskä (born 28 February 1953, Sääminki, Finland) is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist and composer. He was an orchestral clarinetist of the Turku Philharmonic (1971-1976) and Helsinki Philharmonic (1977-1982), and during this time, studied conducting with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy. Vänskä was chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra (1988-2008), the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (1993-1996), and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (1996-2002). He has been music director of the Minnesota Orchestra since 2003. Vänskä has recorded extensively for the BIS label.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_V%C3%A4nsk%C3%A4

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