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Enchanted Garden - Orchestral Works by Uljas Pulkkis

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISSACD1339

Barcode: 7318599913391

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd July 2007

Works

Pulkkis, Uljas

Enchanted Garden: A Musical Tale in 8 Chapters
Flute Concerto
Symphonic Dali: paintings (3) for orchestra

Artists

Jaakko Kuusisto (violin)
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Susanna Mälkki

Works

Pulkkis, Uljas

Enchanted Garden: A Musical Tale in 8 Chapters
Flute Concerto
Symphonic Dali: paintings (3) for orchestra

Artists

Jaakko Kuusisto (violin)
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Susanna Mälkki

About

In spite of his youth, Uljas Pulkkis (b. 1975) is firmly established in Finnish music. The highly colourful writing in Enchanted Garden is characteristic of an early phase in Pulkkis’s development, a phase of which the work forms both the climax and the conclusion.

The title work of the present disc, Enchanted Garden, subtitled ‘a musical fairy-tale in eight chapters’, was singled out by UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers 2001. The solo violin – the work is sometimes described as a violin concerto – is the narrator whom the orchestral musicians comment upon and react to, and the ’fairy-tale’ itself tells of happenings from sunset to sunrise in a magical garden.

In the following Flute Concerto, composed for Sharon Bezaly who performs it here, Pulkkis has turned full circle and uses material which, he himself claims, is as straightforward as possible. Especially in the outer movements one finds traces of a neo-classical style reminiscent of Honegger or Hindemith, though filtered through the composer’s very personal vision.

The disc closes with Symphonic Dalí, a three-movement work which is the largest that the composer has written for orchestra to date.

With these three highly varied works, the programme forms a kaleidoscopic picture of a highly interesting young composer. The concertante works are championed by soloists Jaakko Kuusisto and Sharon Bezaly, both of whom played the respective first performances. They are supported by Susanna Mälkki, conducting the Norwegian Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, whose previous recordings of the music of Harald Sæverud and Geirr Tveitt have been highly acclaimed, and who here steps across the border to neighbouring Finland.