Scandinavian, Finnish and Baltic Concertos

[Mykulh]

For those of you who consult them, I am pleased to announce that my newest discogrphy: Scandinavian, Finnish and Baltic Concertos has just appeared on MusicWeb International. Hope you'll take a look.

Mykulh


http://www.musicweb-international.com/Scandinavian_concertos/SCANCONS1.htm

[Alan Howe]

Congratulations, Mike. Discographies such as yours are always worth consulting...

[JimL]

Already found one boo-boo, Mike.  Tor Aulin's 3rd Violin Concerto, Op. 14, is in C minor, not C Major.  Hope you can jump in and fix it.  Also, I noticed you list Edvard Hagerup Bull, but not Ole Bull (1810-1880), one of the greatest violinists who ever lived and the composer of several concertante works, at least one of which has been recorded that I know of.

[Christopher]

I am very interested in composers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (up to approx 1950) so thank you very much for this.  There is one composer I didn't see on your list: Evald Aav (1900-1939, Estonian), I am trying to find out which works by him have been recorded.   His music is late romantic in style.

His wikipedia entry reads as follows:

Evald Aav (7 March [O.S. 22 February] 1900 – 21 March 1939) was an Estonian composer born in Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire. He studied music composition there with Artur Kapp and wrote primarily vocal music to words in the Estonian language. In 1928 he composed the first national Estonian opera, Vikerlased (The Vikings). The opera premiered in Tallinn on 8 September 1928. He modelled his style of composition after Tchaikovsky.

Youtube has a couple of his works.  One of them is labelled in Estonian only so unfortunately I don't know what it means.

Sõdalaste koor ooperist Vikerlased -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rVcAp2B5s

Georg Ots Les Vikings Air d'Olav Evald Aav - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRDzQqSDNuA

Some other websites with clips of his works are:

Duet from opera The Vikings / Urve Tauts (mezzo soprano), Hendrik Krumm (tenor), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Peeter Lilje -  http://www.emic.ee/evald-aav

A list of all (?)his works, with information on recordings, is at http://www.emic.ee/?sisu=heliloojad&mid=58&id=112&lang=eng&action=view&method=teosed - this includes, among others, a sound file of his symphonic poem "Life" (I think it's just a fragment, and I don't think it's downloadable, at least not on my PC...)

More from "The Vikings" - http://muusika24.ee/Muusika/artist/E-Aav/soundAuthor

There is also a website where a few more works seem to be advertised, but again it's in Estonian so I am not sure.  Are there any Estonian speakers on this site?!
http://muusika24.ee/Muusika/album/Dirigeerib-Vallo-J%C3%A4rvi

For example it advertises a piece called "Elu" - is this "Life" (ref above), and therefore does I osa and II osa means Part 1 and Part 2? etc etc

DOES ANYONE ON THIS SITE SPEAK ESTONIAN? 

From the snippets available he sounds like a composer worth exploring, especially Olav's Aria (Air d'Olav, mentioned above).

[Christopher]

The first piece that was put into the Downloads section of this site after it re-defined its remit a couple of months ago was the Symphonic Allegro by Latvian composer Andrejs Jurjans (1856-1922) - it is an absolute WINNER of a piece!  Do you know what other pieces by him have been recorded?  (maybe member Latvian might know....)

[jerfilm]

I have an old Lp with Jurians Cello Concerto, Funeral March, Latvian Dances and March of the Song Festival.  I'm not at home but I am reasonably sure this was on a Melodiya disc.

Jerry

[C R Lim]

A rather curious CD* of works by Jurjans  was issued in 2006 - this contains the aforementioned Symphonic Allegro, along with the Sacral (sic) Cantata of 1887, and three other pieces.

This used to be available from www.balticmall.com but I see that they are now only doing jewellery!

Here's a page from a Latvian online supplier - maybe one of the members there can assist in purchasing

http://doremi.lv/Music/item/Mostaties-stabules-un-kokles

(adds - just noticed that this is a download version. Hope this doesn't mean the CD is no longer available)

There were other pieces on Melodiya LPs which I can list if you are interested.

(* curious because in its original format it was presented like an old diary book with ribbon fastenings!)

[Leea25]

Thank you Mykulh! Your discographies are amazing! I have spent long hours with them and google, trying to track down recordings

Lee

[Martin Eastick]

For anyone still interested, the Jurjans CD "Mostaties stabules un kokles" is still available from xnet.lv - I have just received my copy from them - although it took a little time trying to work out how to order in Latvian etc! Also try searching under "Mostaties"....