Pictured Within; Jaakko Kuusisto: Symphony Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & Pekka Huusisto and BBC Schottish Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins

• Anonymous: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 1:
• 1 Anonymous: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Theme 01:33
• Dai Fujikura (b. 1977): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 1:
• 2 Fujikura: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 1: tact 60 02:40
• David Sawer (b. 1961): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 2:
• 3 Sawer: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 2 00:58
• Sally Beamish (b. 1956): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 3:
• 4 Beamish: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 3 01:48
• Colin Matthews (b. 1946): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 4:
• 5 Matthews: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 4 00:50
• Iris Ter Schiphorst (b. 1956): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 5:
• 6 Schiphorst: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 5 02:08
• Brett Dean (b. 1961): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 6:
• 7 Dean: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 6 02:42
• Wim Henderickx (1962 - 2022): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 7:
• 8 Henderickx: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 7 02:07
• Richard Blackford (b. 1954): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 8:
• 9 Blackford: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 8 02:41
• Harrison Birtwistle (1934 - 2022): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 9:
• 10 Birtwistle: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 9 05:03
• Gavin Bryars (b. 1943): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 10: Sixty Salutations:
• 11 Bryars: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 10: Sixty Salutations 02:57
• Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 11:
• 12 Bryars: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 11 01:13
• Kalevi Aho (b. 1949): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 12:
• 13 Aho: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 12 03:09
• Anthony Payne (1936 - 2021): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 13:
• 14 Payne: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 13 03:46
• John Pickard (b. 1963): Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 14: The Art of Beginning:
• 15 Pickard: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.: Variation 14: The Art of Beginning 05:55
• Jaakko Kuusisto (1974 - 2022): Symphony, Op. 39:
• 16 Kuusisto: Symphony, Op. 39 (96 kHz) 08:54
• 17 Kuusisto: Symphony, Op. 39: II. Lento (96 kHz) 18:01
• Total Runtime 01:06:25

Info for Pictured Within; Jaakko Kuusisto: Symphony

This album is a double tribute. The first work, Pictured Within, is a collective effort conceived as a major project to mark the 60th birthday of conductor Martyn Brabbins, whose reputation in new music and British music is beyond reproach. Following the pattern of Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Pictured Within is a series of 14 variations on a theme, each of which takes up the character of the equivalent variation in Elgar’s work, the difference being that here 14 different composers have each contributed a variation in tribute to Brabbins. Also on the SACD is Jaakko Kuusisto’s Symphony, a fitting tribute to the composer, conductor and violinist who passed away in 2022. Illness left Jaakko no time to complete his work, so it fell to his brother Pekka – who conducts here – and Jari Eskola to finish it. The result is a powerful piece, full of familiar themes and melodies derived from Jaakko’s existing compositions, to which are added autobiographical extra-musical elements. The moving conclusion is a collage of fragmented phrases inspired by the signals emitted by lighthouses and ships, as if Kuusisto’s spirit had been sent out to sea.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (tracks 16-17)
Pekka Kuusisto, conductor (tracks 16-17)

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