Englund: Complete Music for Solo Piano / Mikkola

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
June 16, 2017
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ENGLUND, EINAR
    • PERFORMER
      Laura Mikkola
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 16, 2017
    • UPC
      5060113443564
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0356
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prelude

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    2. Fughetta

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    3. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    4. II. Andante

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    5. III. Vivace

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    6. Preludium

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    7. Pavane: Adagio

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    8. Toccata: Allegro marcato

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    9. Humoresque

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    10. Little Toccata

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    11. Sonatina in D Minor: II. Sicilienne

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    12. What the Hens Tell (Mita kanat kertovat)

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    13. Menninkainen (The Gnome)

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    14. Scherzino

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    15. Preludes: No. 1. Notturno

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    16. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    17. II. Sicilienne

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    18. III. Scherzo-Finale

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    19. I. Dance of Sinuhe

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    20. II. Dance of Nefer

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    21. III. Sinuhe and Nefer-Nefer

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    22. IV. Dance of Kaptah and the Girls

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    23. V. War Dance of Horemheb

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    24. Introduzione

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    25. Toccata

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    26. I. Introduzione ed allegro

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    27. II. Notturno

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    28. III. Scherzo-Finale

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola

    29. The Lauttasaari Rotary Club Festive March

      Composer: Einar Englund

      Performer: Laura Mikkola


Einar Englund (1916-1999) was not only one of Finland's major symphonists; he was also one of his country's most important pianists. He was destined for a virtuoso career until he damaged a finger as a soldier in the Battle of Bengtskjar in the ''Finnish Continuation War'' in 1941 - but when he later discovered the bullet holes in his beret, he realized he had a lucky escape! Englund wrote surprisingly little for his own instrument, but the works he did produce glitter with a Prokofievan steely strength and textural clarity. They are also animated with the ironic humor that was typical of the composer himself. The pianist here is one of Finland's finest musicians, Laura Mikkola. The booklet essay is by Christian Holmqvist, Englund's biographer, and is followed by a personal reminiscence of Einar Englund by Martin Anderson, founder of Toccata Classics. Laura Mikkola studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinkin, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. She has been the recipient of many awards, among them second prize in the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels in 2016.