Aho: Works For Solo Piano / Sonja Fraki

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BIS
Release Date
March 10, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      AHO, KALEVI
    • PERFORMER
      Sonja Fraki
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 10, 2015
    • UPC
      7318599921068
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2106
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Tranquillo

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    2. No. 2. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    3. No. 3. Semplice

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    4. No. 4. Presto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    5. No. 5. Grave

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    6. No. 6. Maestoso

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    7. No. 7. Presto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    8. No. 8. Allegretto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    9. No. 9. Lento assai

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    10. No. 10. Prestissimo

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    11. No. 11. Andante

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    12. No. 12. Allegro - Maestoso

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    13. No. 13. Allegretto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    14. No. 14. Grave

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    15. No. 15. Moderato grazioso

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    16. No. 16. Moderato

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    17. No. 17. Andante - Allegro - Adagio

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    18. No. 18. Lento assai, esitante

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    19. No. 19. Tranquillo

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    20. No. 1. Maestoso

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    21. No. 2. Tranquillo

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    22. No. 3. Maestoso

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    23. No. 1. Andante

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    24. No. 2. Allegretto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    25. I. Toccata: Presto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    26. II. Andante

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    27. III. Prestissimo

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    28. Solo II

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    29. I. —

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    30. II. Allegro molto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki

    31. III. Tranquillo molto

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Sonja Fräki


Known particularly for his orchestral output – 16 symphonies and 21 concertos to date! – the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho was recently described in Gramophone as having ‘a strong claim to the title of greatest living symphonist’. But as followers of the ongoing releases of his music on BIS will know, Aho has also composed a large number of works for smaller forces – quartets and quintets, duos and solo pieces. On the present disc, the Finnish pianist Sonja Fräki presents his output for solo piano, comfortably fitting on one disc, but nevertheless spanning some 30 years of a long career. The disc in fact opens with Aho’s earliest published work, the Nineteen Preludes from 1965-68, written before the composer had begun any formal studies of either composition or the piaNo.There is even a first version of Prelude No.8 dating from 1963, when Kalevi Aho was in his early teens and was just beginning to teach himself the piano, writing music intended mainly as practice pieces for his own use. Since then Aho has composed for other budding pianists – the Two Easy Piano Pieces for Children and the Sonatina – but as in much of his other music, the works for piano display his characteristic fascination with the virtuosic and technically brilliant side of music-making. On the present disc, this quality comes to the fore in the Sonata, with its sparkling first movement and percussive, toccata-like second movement followed by a searching Tranquillo molto, characterized by a trill which continues almost without interruption throughout the movement. Commissioned as a set piece for a piano competition, Solo II is likewise a challenge for any pianist, and forms part of a series of big (roughly ten-minute) solo works for various instruments, of which several have been recorded by BIS.