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Cover: Leo Brouwer – Guitar Concerto No. 5 · Iberia Suite · From Yesterday to Penny Lane · - Seven Beatles Transcriptions

Leo Brouwer

Guitar Concerto No. 5

Iberia Suite · From Yesterday to Penny Lane · - Seven Beatles Transcriptions

Timo Korhonen, guitar
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila, conductor

ODE 979-2 · CD · January 2002

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Track listing

13 tracks · 65:31

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Leo Brouwer

  1. Guitar Concerto No. 5 "Helsinki" 29:25
  2. 1 I. Spaces 10:16
  3. 2 II. Lightness and Heaviness 10:33
  4. 3 III. Luminosity 8:35

Isaac Albéniz

  1. Iberia Suite (arr. Leo Brouwer) 16:50
  2. 4 I. Evocación 5:21
  3. 5 II. El Puerto 4:12
  4. 6 III. El Albaicín 7:18

Leo Brouwer

  1. From Yesterday to Penny Lane - Seven Beatles Transcriptions 19:16
  2. 7 I. She's Leaving Home 2:41
  3. 8 II. A Ticket to Ride 2:37
  4. 9 III. Here, There and Everywhere 2:50
  5. 10 IV. Yesterday 2:40
  6. 11 V. Got to Get You Into My Life 1:43
  7. 12 VI. Eleanor Rigby 4:08
  8. 13 VII. Penny Lane 2:37

About this recording

This CD features Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen with Leo Brouwer's "Helsinki" Concerto, which the Cuban composer wrote in 1991-92 on commission from the Helsinki Festival. The work is dedicated to Timo Korhonen, who is here accompanied by the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen. This recording further contains two transcriptions by Brouwer: of Albeniz's Iberia Suite and of seven Beatles tunes.

This CD won a Cannes Classical Award in 2003, in the category 'Solo with Orchestra'.

Features

Booklet with liner notes, written by the performing artist, in English, German, French and Finnish

Press

Timo Korhonen, dedicatee of the concerto, is resourceful, with a magisterial technique, and here wedded to Brouwer's stylistic manner. The recording is up to Ondine's usual high standards.
Christopher Williams, Fanfare Magazine, January/February 2003

The performances from soloist and orchestra are consistently splendid, and the recording quality is outstanding.
Steven Rings, American Record Guide, September/October 2002

Timo Korhonen is a superb guitarist who takes everything in his clean-fingered stride. The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra shares his zest, the recording is first-class.
John Duarte, Gramophone, May 2002

I doubt that there's a better played, better recorded, more musically varied and appealing guitar and orchestra disc in the catalog. Magnificent!
David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com, April 2002, Artistic Quality 10 / Sound Quality 10

The artists

Timo Korhonen

The Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen (b. 1964) is one of the most versatile proponents on his instrument in the world. Freedom of interpretation, bearlike strength and richness of sound are components of his deep-rooted artist persona. Korhonens interpretations are natural, strong in contrast and uncompromising in their aim at reprodusing the content of a composition in as true manner as possible and with the profound understanding of its style.

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Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, comprising 97 musicians, is one of Scandinavia's leading symphony orchestras. In autumn 2013, young Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali succeeded Hannu Lintu as new Chief Conductor and continued in his post until 2023.

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