Antti Auvinen: Junker Twist, Himmel Punk & Turbo Aria The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Hannu Lintu

• Antti Auvinen (b. 1971):
• 1 Junker Twist 09:14
• 2 Himmel Punk 13:47
• 3 Turbo Aria 22:21
• Total Runtime 45:22

Info for Antti Auvinen: Junker Twist, Himmel Punk & Turbo Aria

This new Ondine release by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu presents a new contemporary voice within Finlands contemporary music scene: Antti Auvinen. This album includes three recent orchestral works by the composer marked by highly pressurised and explosive rhythms and sounds.

The premieres of Antti Auvinen’s (b. 1974) Junker Twist (2015) and Himmel Punk (2016) in the mid-2010s electrified the scene of Finland’s contemporary music: music critics felt that a new major voice in the country’s music scene had been born. Auvinen’s works are often thematically connected to events in the surrounding society. Junker Twist (2015) deals with the topic of rising neo-Nazist ideologies, while Himmel Punk (2016) takes a stand against religious discrimination. The most extensive work of this album, Turbo Aria (2017/2018), is partially based on arias sung by Finnish sopranos a century ago. These ‘arias’ sung by Alma Fohström, Aino Ackté and Järnefelt and the sounds of the accompanying instruments are augmented by the crackles, pops, hisses and other mechanical noises made by the original discs. Yet the work also has a second underlying theme: the refugee crisis. Is this programme music? Perhaps – but it does not matter, because the music is equally impressive with the narrative or without it. In 2016, Auvinen was awarded with the Teosto award, one of the biggest music awards in the Nordic countries.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor

Hannu Lintu
ist seit dem Jahr 2013 Chefdirigent des Finnischen Radio-Sinfonieorchesters. Er studierte Violoncello und Klavier an der Sibelius-Akademie in Helsinki sowie Dirigieren bei Jorma Panula. Er besuchte Meisterkurse bei Myung-Whun Chung und gewann 1994 den ersten Preis beim Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen. In dieser Spielzeit gastiert Hannu Lintu u. a. beim Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, beim Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien sowie bei den Symphonieorchestern von Toronto, Baltimore und Detroit. Zuletzt dirigierte er u. a. The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, das Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne sowie das Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Er tritt immer wieder auch als Operndirigent hervor, so u. a. an der Estonian National Opera, der Tampere Opera und der Finnish National Opera, wo er zuletzt Produktionen von Carmen, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal und Aulis Sallinens King Lear betreute. Seine CD-Einspielungen mit dem Finnischen Radio-Sinfonieorchester u. a. mit Werken von Gustav Mahler (Sinfonie Nr. 1), Jean Sibelius, Olivier Messiaen und Luciano Berio wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet.

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