Music
Pylkkänen, Pekka: PEKKA'S TUBE FACTORY CD.
Author: Pylkkänen, Pekka (saxes, flute, bass calrinet), Pekka Luukka (guitar), Seppo Kantonen (keyboard), Hannu Rantanen (bass), Marko Timonen (drums), Tapio "Mongo" Aaltonen (percuss
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 1999
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Code: 5871
Price: $19.50
Led by saxophonist/composer Pylkkänen, this band consists of some of the finest modern musicians on the Finnish music scene, the members have been playing with each other in various groups since the ‘80s and bring their rich collective experience to the music to be heard on this CD. Much of this music is of a highly improvisational nature and requires accomplished jazz soloists who assist Pekka in bringing his music to life.
SCANDINAVIA OFF BROADWAY CD.
Author: Rydström, Jens
Country: New York, NY
Language: English
Year Published: 2006
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Code: 6229
Price: $9.50
“Legalizing Love in a Cold Climate:” the history, consequences, and recent developments of registered partnership in Scandinavia. A talk in English by Dr. Jens Rydström, Associate Professor of History, Stockholm University. A lecture given at Columbia’s Deutsches Haus on March 7, 2006.
Sibelius: SYMPHONY NO.7; RAKASTAVA FOR STRINGS, PROKOFIEV: ANDANTE FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, GLAZUNOV: SCÉNES DE BALLET FOR ORCHERSTRA CD. Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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Country: Denmark
Language: English/ French
Year Published: 2001
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This 1962 recording of Sibelius’s last symphony is led by one of Russia’s most dynamic conductors. A mere 20 minutes long, the work evolves in one continuous movement, with various tempo changes, climaxes, and anticlimaxes leading to a dramtic, tragic conclusion. In contrast, Rakastava, a three-movement suite from 1911, celebrates the composer’s return to an unsophisticated style of Finnish folk music. Both pieces receive finely calibrated playing from the Russians-the first pungent and strong (espcially in the signature trombone solo), the second more austere and haunting. The disc is rounded out by a modernist piece Prokofiev wrote in 1930 and Glazunov’s set of eight melodic and captivating dances, including a waltz, mazurka, and polonaise.
Simon Cato Spang-Hanssen Quartet: IDENTIFIED CD.
Author: Simon Cato Spang-Hanssen, Thomas Clausen, Jesper Lundgaard, Billy Hart
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 1999
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Code: 5906
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This recording was done after a small tour in France and Denmark. Having played for six consecutive nights, they more or less did it as a concert, and only tried second takes on a couple of tunes. All of the members of the quartet knew each other from previous playing-contexts, and a high degree of complicity was found very quickly. Most of the recorded tunes are new; and were more or less written with this particular group in mind - trying to provide maximum space for initiative and spontaneous invention.
Sinding, Christian: SONGS CD. Arnesen, Bodil Soprano, Erling Ragnar Eriksen, Piano
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Language: English/ Danish/ French
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Sinding (1856-1941) was born in Kongsberg, Norway. His special relationship with text as a means of artistic expression resulted in more than 250 songs, characterized by singable, folklike melodies and a harmonic style solidly rooted in German late-Romanticism. Sindig turned also to contemporary Norwegian and Danish poets, choosing verse inspired by nature, such as the songs from Op. 18 to texts by Vilhelm Krag, from Op. 19 to texts by Holger Drachmann and Svend Trøst, and Op. 36 to poems by Nils Collett Vogt. Bodil Arnesen is among the most talented of Norway’s sopranos.