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Aho: Works For Solo Piano / Sonja Fraki
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Aho: Works For Solo Piano / Sonja Fraki

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Details

Composer
AHO, KALEVI
Artist
Sonja Fraki
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Mar 10, 2015
Catalog #
BIS-2106
UPC
7318599921068

About

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.

Tracklist 31 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Tranquillo 01:37
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Tranquillo
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  2. 2 No. 2. Allegro vivace 00:26
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    00:26
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  3. 3 No. 3. Semplice 01:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Semplice
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  4. 4 No. 4. Presto 02:17
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Presto
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  5. 5 No. 5. Grave 02:10
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Grave
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  6. 6 No. 6. Maestoso 01:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Maestoso
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  7. 7 No. 7. Presto 02:02
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Presto
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  8. 8 No. 8. Allegretto 01:13
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Allegretto
    Duration
    01:13
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  9. 9 No. 9. Lento assai 02:10
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Lento assai
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  10. 10 No. 10. Prestissimo 01:19
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Prestissimo
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  11. 11 No. 11. Andante 00:53
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. Andante
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  12. 12 No. 12. Allegro - Maestoso 02:01
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12. Allegro - Maestoso
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  13. 13 No. 13. Allegretto 01:31
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13. Allegretto
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  14. 14 No. 14. Grave 01:55
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14. Grave
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  15. 15 No. 15. Moderato grazioso 01:38
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 15. Moderato grazioso
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  16. 16 No. 16. Moderato 02:01
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 16. Moderato
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  17. 17 No. 17. Andante - Allegro - Adagio 03:05
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 17. Andante - Allegro - Adagio
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  18. 18 No. 18. Lento assai, esitante 02:53
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 18. Lento assai, esitante
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  19. 19 No. 19. Tranquillo 01:44
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 19. Tranquillo
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  20. 20 No. 1. Maestoso 02:08
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 1. Maestoso
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  21. 21 No. 2. Tranquillo 01:10
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 2. Tranquillo
    Duration
    01:10
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  22. 22 No. 3. Maestoso 00:33
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 3. Maestoso
    Duration
    00:33
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  23. 23 No. 1. Andante 01:27
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 1. Andante
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  24. 24 No. 2. Allegretto 00:38
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 2. Allegretto
    Duration
    00:38
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  25. 25 I. Toccata: Presto 01:37
    Track
    25
    Title
    I. Toccata: Presto
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  26. 26 II. Andante 02:46
    Track
    26
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  27. 27 III. Prestissimo 01:51
    Track
    27
    Title
    III. Prestissimo
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  28. 28 Solo II 10:42
    Track
    28
    Title
    Solo II
    Duration
    10:42
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  29. 29 I. — 03:18
    Track
    29
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  30. 30 II. Allegro molto 03:14
    Track
    30
    Title
    II. Allegro molto
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki
  31. 31 III. Tranquillo molto 07:34
    Track
    31
    Title
    III. Tranquillo molto
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    Kalevi Aho
    Performer
    Sonja Fräki