# Antti Auvinen: Junker Twist · Himmel Punk · Turbo Aria

> Antti Auvinen: Junker Twist · Himmel Punk · Turbo Aria – Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu. Ondine ODE 1326-2, CD, released November 2020.

Source: https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1326-2

- **Composer:** Antti Auvinen
- **Work(s):** Junker Twist · Himmel Punk · Turbo Aria
- **Performers:** Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Hannu Lintu, conductor
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 1326-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 November 2020
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195132623
- **Tracks:** 3, total 45:22
- **Genres:** Finnish contemporary, Orchestral

## Track listing

**Antti Auvinen**

1. Junker Twist (2015) (9:14)
2. Himmel Punk (2016) (13:47)
3. Turbo Aria (2017/2018) (22:21)

## About this recording

This new album release by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu presents a new contemporary voice within Finland’s 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.

Conductor Hannu Lintu was recently nominated for a GRAMMY for his recording of new works by Kaija Saariaho ([ODE 1309-2](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1309-2)) together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also won the Gramophone Award and ICMA Award for his recording of the Bartók Violin Concertos ([ODE 1317-2](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1317-2)) together with Christian Tetzlaff and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The same recording was also nominated for the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards. Recordings by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu on Ondine have gathered numerous excellent reviews in the international press. Two of their recordings were nominated for Gramophone Awards in 2018. One of them, including orchestral works and songs by Jean Sibelius ([ODE 1289-5](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1289-5)) also won an ICMA Award in January 2018. The first volume of their Lutoslawski symphony cycle ([ODE 1320-5](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1320-5)) was chosen ‘Recording of the Month’ by the BBC Music Magazine in February 2019.

## Features

Sleeve notes in English and Finnish.

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## Related pages

- [Antti Auvinen (1974)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/auvinen-antti.md)
- [Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/finnish-radio-symphony-orchestra.md)
- [Hannu Lintu, Conductor](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/lintu-hannu.md)

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