Finnish Music

[BFerrell]

Cannot use m4a. 

[eschiss1]

depending on your platform, there are some good m4a to mp3 converters out there - this was discussed in another thread I think... I have a Mac and use Switch for some conversion, iTunes for some and "Max" for  yet others.

[Mark Thomas]

There are lots of utilities out there which will convert between audio formats and this discussion here might be the place to start looking.

[Dundonnell]

I request the Kalevi Aho Symphony No.15, Tapiola seconds my request and up it pops within hours

Can this get any better

The words "Thank You" now seem such a feeble expression of gratitude

[Dundonnell]

The orchestra for the premiere of the Aho Symphony No.15 was actually the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (rather than the BBC Concert Orchestra as indicated on the Downloads section thread).

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks for the Radio concert upload, Atsushi. What an enjoyable programme. I've never heard of either Kuula or Schantz - does anybody have any more by either of these gentlemen?

[Latvian]

Thanks for the Radio concert upload, Atsushi. What an enjoyable programme. I've never heard of either Kuula or Schantz - does anybody have any more by either of these gentlemen?

Yes, I have a few works of Kuula's. I'll try to get them uploaded in the near future. Never heard of Schantz, though -- thanks, Atsushi!

[lechner1110]

  Hi, I also heard name of Schantz first time.
  But, this is very good romantic style music, in my view.

 

[Mark Thomas]

I do agree. There's a little flesh on the bones here.

[eschiss1]

Toivo Kuula? I have his fragmentary "Jupiter" symphony conducted by Panula- have to check that that's a broadcast and not a commercial recording... the other things I have by him are probably from CDs. There's a couple of pages about him including this one, also Wikipedia and others... ... wait. Since we're talking about Polish music and Kuula is Finnish, not Toivo Kuula. *goes to look what is being spoken  of. Sorry! ...*

*blink* ok, unconfused... Polish, Finnish... and yes, same recording of the Jupiter symphony- I'll see if the other things I have (Ostrobothnian suite, his best-known work, and Sorrow from opus 2, also Orjan Poika- mostly from BBC broadcasts...) are from commercial CDs or no...
(Ok, I seem to have a different recording of Orjan Poika op.14 than the one on Alba, a longer one by a minute - 25.5 as opposed to 24 min. ... hrm. perhaps none of these recordings are, in fact...)

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks for the bio and work list, Eric. It's the same recording (Panula) of the Jupiter Symphony fragment which Atsushi has uploaded. Of course, I realised that I'd come across Kuula before, once I saw your mention of the South Ostrobothnian Suites.

[BFerrell]

Alba have released two CDs recently of major works by Toivo Kuula (100% Finnish) and another CD from Dutton Epoch.  He was a challenger to Sibelius until shot in a political dispute in 1918. He was a fine Romantic nationalist composer. I have no idea why he is on the Polish page.

[eschiss1]

he is here, he's on the Finnish Downloads page or so I think I see which is correct.

[Mark Thomas]

Oops. my mistake. As you can see, I've moved these last few posts from the Polish thread to the Finnish one.

[lescamil]

Here's a video download of Uljas Pulkkis' new piano concerto.

http://areena.yle.fi/video/1319651996073

Unfortunately, it is no longer available. Can someone please reupload that got it?