Recording: Kalevi Aho: Sieidi | Symphony No 5
(BIS Records)
★★★★★ “Currie sets the scene on solo djembe, the orchestra eventually taking over with a wild exuberance that rarely gives up. Currie’s evocative narrative journeys through a sequence of percussion instruments - untuned to wood to metal to central tam-tam cadenza before the order is reversed - and in music, coloured with African, Arabic and Oriental influences, that counters fitful energy with haunting reverie.”
The Scotsman
Diapason D’Or ★★★★★
Diapason
10/10 Artistic Quality, Sound Quality & Overall Impression
“The present recording features the Scottish dedicatee Colin Currie, who premiered the concert in London in 2012, and we owe the particularly sensitive delicacy of the lyrical episodes to his performance.”
Klassik Heute
Recordings of the Year 2020
Recording of the Month
Music Web International
"Colin Currie, for whom Sieidi was written, delivers a knockout account with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk … with Shostakovich a clear influence through eight showpiece sections in which material is spectacularly hurled between soloist and orchestra."
BBC Music Magazine
“With Currie, the cascade of textures, rhythmic profiles and harmonic colours, embedded within the solo part, is awaken into sonic reality with astounding virtuosity, both in terms of technical fluency as well as spiritual commitment … Probably the most substantial single release in BIS’s ever-expanding Aho series, the new album is a definite must.”
Adventures in Music
★★★★
Helsingin Sanomat
★★★★
Klassisk