contemporary/classicalReviewsAutumn2019

"It is delightful that the ambitious concert projects by the Helsinki Chamber Choir so often become available in recorded form."

"Kuula can create a powerful sense of atmosphere – I won’t fall back on the cliché of 'brooding northern forests', but you know what I mean – with remarkably few notes, and this fondness for heroic understatement suggests that he might have made a most impressive symphonist."

"Maija Hynninen creates spacious, original sound worlds and narratives that leave room for the listeners’ imagination."

"Haapanen writes for the orchestra as for a collective of virtuosi and the FRSO do not let him down in this scintillating performance."

"Risto-Matti Marin’s recital of unknown Finnish Romantic piano music is a triumph. The works he has chosen all arouse surprised respect – who knew? – and he plays them with unhesitating conviction."

"If this recording doesn’t sweep up an indecent quantity of prizes, there’s something wrong with the world."

"For all the sophistication of Rautavaara’s harmonic language, what he is doing here, basically, is weaving a spell – and I defy you not to be hypnotised by the unearthly beauty of this wonderful music."

"The artistic level on the recording is thoroughly high, and the richness of the composer’s invention opens up new perspectives by every listening."