Jouni Kaipainen
Horn Concerto
Cello Concerto
Esa Tapani, horn
Marko Ylönen, cello
Finnish RSO
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Track listing
6 tracks · 64:39Jouni Kaipainen
- Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 61 (2001) 27:53
- 1 I. Allegro maestoso - Cadenza 10:06
- 2 II. Larghetto 11:01
- 3 III. Vivace 6:47
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1, Op. 65 (2002) 36:44
- 4 I. Andante febbrile; possibilmente rubato - Allegro con brio 17:38
- 5 II. Largo - Cadenza attacca 13:20
- 6 III. Allegretto 5:47
Press
The required virtuosity of the pieces is never detrimental to their substance. Here are two dense and solid works, and as one could only expect, they are excellently performed.
- Marc Vignal, Le Monde de la Musique, April 2006, ****
The artists
Marko Ylönen
Marko Ylönen studied the cello with Csaba Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute, with Erkki Rautio and Heikki Rautasalo at the Sibelius Academy and with Heinrich Schiff in Basel. Ylönen made the final round of the Turku Cello Competition at the age of fifteen. He received second prize in the Nordic Cello Competition in Turku in 1990 and a prize in the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in the same year. In spring 1996, he won the Concert Artist Guild competition in New York.
Hannu Lintu
Hannu Lintu is one of Finland's most sought-after conductors and is rapidly creating a major international career. He has been Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra 2009-2013, and also Principal Guest Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. Before assuming the new role of Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2013 to 2021, he was the orchestra's Chief Guest Conductor in 2012. Hannu Lintu was previously Chief Conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest conductor with the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland and was Artistic Director of the orchestra's Summer Sounds festival in 2005. In November 2022, the Gulbenkian Orchestra announced the appointment of Lintu as its next chief conductor.