Erkki Melartin (1875-1937), a Late-Romantic Finnish Symphonist

[kyjo]

Hopefully it will be the first release of a new complete cycle, and featuring Ari Rasilainen who conducted the glorious Atterberg cycle on this label. To be released on 19 June:

Now THAT is marvelous news!! Thank you for altering us, Cesar! The Ondine recordings with the Tampere PO under Leonard Grin have served us pretty well for a while, but it's time we heard some new interpretations of these marvelous works. Rasilainen's natural feeling for the late-romantic opulence of Atterberg certainly bodes well for his Melartin interpretations, though of course Melartin's 5th and 6th Symphonies show him striking out in somewhat more modern directions than the previous ones in the cycle. I would hope that these new recordings will be using the "corrected" editions of the scores which restore music that was sometimes excised in the old editions used for the Ondine recordings. Oh, and beautiful cover art, too!

[vandermolen]

Now THAT is marvelous news!! Thank you for altering us, Cesar! The Ondine recordings with the Tampere PO under Leonard Grin have served us pretty well for a while, but it's time we heard some new interpretations of these marvelous works. Rasilainen's natural feeling for the late-romantic opulence of Atterberg certainly bodes well for his Melartin interpretations, though of course Melartin's 5th and 6th Symphonies show him striking out in somewhat more modern directions than the previous ones in the cycle. I would hope that these new recordings will be using the "corrected" editions of the scores which restore music that was sometimes excised in the old editions used for the Ondine recordings. Oh, and beautiful cover art, too!

Great cover art as well (as you pointed out!)