Ondine

  • Rautavaara: Works for Cello & Piano / Tetzlaff, Sussmann
    Rautavaara: Works for Cello & Piano / Tetzlaff, Sussmann

    $17.99

    The passing away of Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016), one of the most performed Finnish composers after Sibelius, left a deep void in the field of Finnish contemporary music. This new album by cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 09, 2018

  • Rautavaara: Vigilia / Nuoranne, Korhonen, Lehtipuu
    Rautavaara: Vigilia / Nuoranne, Korhonen, Lehtipuu

    $18.99

    The service of the Orthodox Church known as the All-Night Vigil has attracted many composers. Famous settings exist of parts or all of the service by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov among others. The service encompasses Vespers...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 02, 1994

  • Rautavaara: Song of My Heart - Orchestral Songs / Suovanen
    Rautavaara: Song of My Heart - Orchestral Songs / Suovanen

    $18.99

    The most wonderful thing about Rautavaara's songs is that no matter what the technical basis of his compositional method, he understands that "song" means an evocative text set to a singable melody. You may not...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 19, 2002

  • Rautavaara: Rubaiyat, Balada, Canto V & 4 Songs from Rasputin / Storgårds, Helsinki Philharmonic
    Rautavaara: Rubaiyat, Balada, Canto V & 4 Songs from Rasputin / Storgårds, Helsinki Philharmonic

    $18.99

    A MusicWeb International Recording of the Month! Steadfast Ondine have here gathered four world premiere recordings of works by Finnish contemporary composer Rautavaara. In the 1970s and early 1980s I associated him with the thornier...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 13, 2016

  • Rautavaara: Kaivos / Lintu, Hynninen, Katajala, Tampere Philharmonic
    Rautavaara: Kaivos / Lintu, Hynninen, Katajala, Tampere Philharmonic

    $18.99

    This recording features the twelve-tone opera Kaivos (The Mine) by Einojuhani Rautavaara who also wrote the libretto (sung in Finnish). The opera in three acts tells the story of an uprising by mine workers somewhere...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 22, 2011

  • Rautavaara: A Requiem in Our Time / Lintu, FInnish Brass Symphony
    Rautavaara: A Requiem in Our Time / Lintu, FInnish Brass Symphony

    $18.99

    REVIEW: The Finnish Brass Symphony, directed by Hannu Lintu, has recorded a masterful survey of music by countryman Einojuhani Rautavaara. Spanning more than 45 years of the composer's work, the album functions as something of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 07, 1996

  • Rautavaara: Angels & Visitations
    Rautavaara: Angels & Visitations

    $18.99

    The magical world of Einojuhani Rautavaara is one that evokes other realms. Angels figure particularly heavily, especially those angels that deal with death and destruction. As Rautavaara himself says, “My angels are not those like...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 29, 2002

  • Rachmaninoff: Monna Vanna, Act I Songs / Isokoski, Ashkenazy
    Rachmaninoff: Monna Vanna, Act I Songs / Isokoski, Ashkenazy

    $18.99

    Sergei Rachmaninoff’s (1873-1943) rarely heard, unfinished opera Monna Vanna was the only major score he took with him into exile in the USA after the 1917 revolution. + This new recording is based on Gennadi...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 08, 2014

  • Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Oramo, Finnish Radio Symphony
    Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Oramo, Finnish Radio Symphony

    $18.99

    REVIEW: After the “Classical,” Prokofiev’s Fifth is his second most popular symphony. With recordings of the score currently numbering around 75, Sakari Oramo and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra have their work cut out for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 28, 2012

  • Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 / Mustonen, Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony
    Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 / Mustonen, Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony

    $18.99

    This is the second and final disc in a cycle of Sergei Prokofiev’s (1891–1953) piano concertos with pianist Olli Mustonen and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu. The Gramophone Magazine wrote regarding...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 08, 2017

  • Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin / Tetzlaff, Vogt
    Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin / Tetzlaff, Vogt

    $18.99

    Ondine is pleased to announce a long-term recording collaboration with German violinist Christian Tetzlaff, internationally recognized as one of the leading soloists of his generation. The selection of these sonatas for piano and violin by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 30, 2012

  • Mozart: Piano Works - Neglected Treasures / Anastasia Injushina
    Mozart: Piano Works - Neglected Treasures / Anastasia Injushina

    $18.99

    ‘Neglected Treasures’ is the second release on Ondine by Anastasia Injushina, an award-winning pianist known for the poetry and sensitivity of her playing. + Featuring some of the lesser-known aspects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756–91)...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2014

  • Mahler: Symphony No 6, Piano Quartet / Eschenbach, Philadelphia Orchestra
    Mahler: Symphony No 6, Piano Quartet / Eschenbach, Philadelphia Orchestra

    $26.99

    REVIEW:The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first two releases for Ondine under Christoph Eschenbach (Bartók and Tchaikovsky) were extremely good, no doubt about it, but this Mahler Sixth is really extraordinary. Part of its success must stem from...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: October 03, 2002

  • Madetoja: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3; Okon Fuko Suite / Storgårds, Helsinki Philharmonic
    Madetoja: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3; Okon Fuko Suite / Storgårds, Helsinki Philharmonic

    $18.99

    This recording completes Ondine’s cycle of all the three Madetoja symphonies. The first, the Symphony No. 2, was released in January 2013. A contemporary of Jean Sibelius, Leevi Madetoja's work reveals a merging of Ostrobothnia...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 28, 2014

  • Liszt: Paganini Variations; Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody / Tzimon Barto
    Liszt: Paganini Variations; Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody / Tzimon Barto

    $18.99

    REVIEW: "Early in the digital era, Tzimon Barto burst onto the scene with a large technique and photogenic looks. He still possesses both. His exotic name belies the fact that he was born in Florida;...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014