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    Mr McFall's Chamber - Solitudes: Baltic Reflections (2015)

    Posted By: Designol
    Date: 22 Mar 2023 13:25:05
    Mr McFall's Chamber - Solitudes: Baltic Reflections (2015)

    Mr McFall's Chamber - Solitudes: Baltic Reflections (2015)
    Olli Mustonen, Zita Bruzaite, Aulis Sallinen, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Kalevi Aho
    Arvo Pärt, Toivo Kärki, Jean Sibelius, Unto Mononen, Pēteris Vasks
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 267 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical, Contemporary | Label: Delphian | # DCD34156 | Time: 01:05:28

    No one knows quite when tango was established in Finland, but the style has a long history there – still little known to outsiders – and combines rhythmic interest and yearning melody with a distinctively Nordic melancholy. In this ingeniously curated programme, two Finnish tangos from the 1950s and a tango-based work by Finnish classical composer Aulis Sallinen are woven into a bold tapestry of music from the Eastern Baltic seaboard. Longing, sadness, and a heightened sense of nature infuse all of these works, which also reveal intriguing stylistic connections: the rocking accompaniment of Sibelius’ 'Einsames Lied' seems to prefigure the ‘Baltic minimalism’ of Vasks, Pärt and Zita Bružaité, while Olli Mustonen’s 'Toccata' alternates rhythmic verve with a rich vein of reflective memory. These original compositions are complemented by Robert McFall’s own sensitive arrangements, for a core McFall’s lineup of five strings and piano, and the programme culminates in a truly unique version of Sibelius’s famous 'Finlandia' Hymn.

    Mr McFall’s Chamber has collaborated with a number of singer/songwriters, including Michael Marra and Valentina Montoya Martínez (both of whom have recorded CDs for Delphian with the group). It is also dedicated to commissioning new work from both well-known and unknown composers, and has premiered and toured pieces by James MacMillan, Gavin Bryars, Eddie McGuire, Kenneth Dempster, Cecilia MacDowall, Chick Lyall, Phil Bancroft, Fraser Fifield, Tim Garland and many more. Two McFall’s commissions, Martin Suckling’s 'What shall I give?' and Martin Kershaw’s 'Closing In', were both shortlisted as finalists for the 2011 BASCA British Composer Awards.

    Not just another mood disc hung off Baltic longing, tragedy and melancholy, but one whose view of the Baltic encompasses Finland – a kindred spirit to Latvia, Luthiania and Estonia in its orthodox-tinged melancholy but also a country rather obsessed with tango. ‘Nobody quite knows when tango was established in Finland,’ says the blurb. When you hear Toivo Kärki’s Täysikuu spring out of the desolation that is Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina (wondrously played by Maria Martinova), you get a vivid picture of an oppressed people glimpsing the light relief of the Argentinian dance form that they went on to make their own (though with all minor keys, naturally).

    At the centre of the disc is Pēteris Vasks’s fragile Little Summer Music, six short movements in which the joy of sunshine is hesitant, veiled – a summer whose revelry dare not speak its name (it was written while Latvia, that country of outdoor summer song, was still under Soviet occupation). That’s preceded by Kalevi Aho’s intricately weaved Lamento for two violas, Erkki-Sven Tüür’s brittle Dedication for cello and piano, Aulis Sallinen’s rhapsodic Introduction and Tango Overture and Zita Bružaitė’s haunting Bangos for solo piano, its repetition of one-bar units creating an unmistakably Baltic sound. The disc opens with Olli Mustonen’s Toccata, which has its own Baltic glances, and ends with a rendition of Sibelius’s Finlandia Hymn in which the tune is played on a musical saw – at once absurd, comic and saddening, like an Aki Kaurismäki film.

    Full marks for originality of concept and for execution, which has all this ensemble’s trademark style and communicative nous, and for a fascinating booklet-note by Ivan Moody. But after a few listens, I’m all at sea when it comes to any sort of sonic thread or journey in a musical menu that enters the ear with wild and tenuous contrasts, for all its fascinating theoretic consistencies.

    Review by Andrew Mellor, Gramophone

    Mr McFall's Chamber - Solitudes: Baltic Reflections (2015)

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    Mr McFall's Chamber:
    Violin - Robert McFall (tracks: 1, 3, 13 to 16)
    Viola - Brian Schiele (tracks: 1, 3, 5 13 to 16), Robert McFall (tracks: 5)
    Cello - Su-a Lee (tracks: 1, 3, 4 13 to 16)
    Double Bass - Rick Standley (tracks: 1, 3, 13 to 16)

    collaborators:
    Violin - Cyril Garac (tracks: 1, 3, 6 to 11, 13 to 16)
    Piano - Maria Martinova (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 16)

    Recording venue(s): St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitekirk, East Lothian
    Recording dates: 8-9 December 2014


    Tracklist:

    01. Olli Mustonen (b.1967): Toccata (12:01)

    02. Zita Bružaitė (b.1966): Bangos (04:52)

    03. Aulis Sallinen (b.1935): Introduction and Tango Overture (10:13)

    04. Erkki-Sven Tüür (b.1959): Dedication (07:28)

    05. Kalevi Aho (b.1949): Lamento (04:48)

    Pēteris Vasks (b.1946): Little Summer Music
    06. Broad, resonant (01:45)
    07. Unhurried (01:29)
    08. Energetic (01:22)
    09. Sad (03:05)
    10. Joyful (01:53)
    11. Broad, resonant (02:30)

    12. Arvo Pärt (b.1935): Für Alina (02:52)

    13. Toivo Kärki (1915-1992): Täysikuu (03:11)

    14. Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Einsames Lied (02:34)

    15. Unto Mononen (1930-1968): Satumaa (02:51)

    16. Jean Sibelius: Finlandia Hymn (02:27)

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