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Toivo Kuula: Complete Solo Songs, Volume One
Toivo Kuula (1883–1918) is one of the many composers who died at a tragically young age – 35 in his case, the result of an alcohol-fuelled pub brawl. The striking quality of the music he wrote during his short life points to the immensity of the loss not only to Finnish culture but to music more generally – as this first album of two, presenting his entire output of songs for solo voice and piano, makes abundantly clear. The range of moods captured here is striking, from cheery folksongs to dark existentialist contemplations of the meaning of life and death. The most passionate of them generate an operatic intensity in their short span, in a style that balances directness of expression and rich late-Romantic harmonies.
Jenni Lättilä, soprano
Kirill Kozlovski, piano
Remembering Alice Herz-Sommer
News has come through of the death this morning, 23 February 2014, of Alice Herz-Sommer, at the age of 110. Alice had become an icon,…
Robert Simpson: Chamber Music, Volume One
Most of the chamber music of Robert Simpson (1921–97) was recorded by Hyperion in the 1980s and ‘90s, but there remained some gaps in that discography. The Robert Simpson Society has sponsored two albums to plug them, this first one including an early string quartet and two songs that came to light only after the composer’s death. In later life Simpson used to say that poems good enough to set didn‘t need music – but these two youthful essays prove that he was already a master. Simpson wrote the D major string quartet as a student at Durham; an examiner described it as ‘fearless’. The two mature works – vintage Simpson – bring his sense of symphonic momentum into the clarinet repertoire.
The Tippett Quartet
Emma Johnson, clarinet
Raphael Wallfisch, cello
John Lenehan, piano
Eva-Maria Hartmann, soprano
Cornelis Witthoefft, piano
Peter Cigleris, clarinet
Derek Hannigan, bass clarinet
Will Duerden, double bass
Levi Andreassen, double bass
Daniil Margulis, double bass