Finnish Violin Music Annemarie Åström

• Helvi Leiviskä (1902 - 1982): Piano Trio:
• 1 Piano Trio: I. Allegro con fuoco 07:31
• 2 Piano Trio: II. Largo - Allegro - Largo 10:47
• Erkki Melartin (1875 - 1937): String Trio, Op. 133:
• 3 String Trio, Op. 133: I. Andante - Allegro 05:21
• 4 String Trio, Op. 133: II. Andante funebre 04:24
• 5 String Trio, Op. 133: III. Presto 02:38
• 6 String Trio, Op. 133: IV. Finale - Vivace 04:58
• Väinö Raitio (1891 - 1945): 4 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 18:
• 7 4 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 18: No. 1, Ballade 04:26
• 8 4 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 18: No. 2, Canzonetta 02:48
• 9 4 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 18: No. 3, Barcarole 03:40
• 10 4 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 18: No. 4, Poème 05:39
• Väinö Raitio:
• 11 Sinivuokko 03:01
• Total Runtime 55:13

Info for Finnish Violin Music

What kind of violin music was composed in the 1920s, in the shadow of Sibelius? The works on this album well illustrates the musical styles prevailing at the time. The Piano Trio by Helvi Leiviskä represents late-Romantic style, the String Trio by Erkki Melartin National-Romanticism, and the pieces for violin and piano by Väinö Raitio Modernism.

Of the three composers, Raitio was the most radical. He sought ideas in the new musical trends – both Impressionism as much as Expressionism – with an open mind, but Finnish audiences of the 1920s were not yet ready for his modern, colourful idiom. His orchestral Antigone composed that decade received crushing reviews and earned him a reputation for being a ‘difficult’, Modernist composer; this is one reason why his works have seldom been performed.

Annemarie Åström, violin
Tiina Karakorpi, piano
Atte Kilpeläinen, viola
Tomas Nunez-Garces, cello
Ulla Lampela, cello

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