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Background: This hybrid SACD contains a rare recital performance of star soprano Karita Mattila in her native Finland. In front of an electrified audience, the best-selling Finnish artist in classical music performed in sold-out concerts at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki in October 2006.

The centrepiece of the featured programme is the ecstatic song cycle Quatre Instants, a musical setting by Karita Mattila's compatriot, Kaija Saariaho, of poetry by Amin Maalouf. Described as 'a quasi-operatic monologue that plunges into the erotic, extreme territory that Mattila conveys so well', Quatre Instants was written for Mattila in 2002 and premièred by her in Paris and London to international acclaim. This SACD recording represents the first commercial release of the piece.

CATALOGUE NR: ODE11005
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 07-May-2007

COMPOSER: Henri Duparc  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Karita Mattila Helsinki Recital
TRACKS: L'Invitation au voyage. Romance de Mignon. Au pays ou se fait la guerre. Chanson triste. Phidyle (Duparc). Quatre Instants - Four instants : Attente - Longing / Douleur - Torment / Parfum de l'instant - Perfume of the instant / Resonances - Echoes (Kaija Saariaho). Ne poi krasavitsa - Oh do not sing to me op.4/4. Sumerki - Twilight op.21/3 / Otrivok iz A Myusse - Fragment from A de Musset op.21/6 / Muza - The Muse op.34/1 / Kakoye stsastje - What happiness op.34/12 (Rachmaninov). Gipsy Songs op.55 : Ma pisen zas mi laskou zni - I chant my lay a hymn of love / Aj! Kterak trojhranec muj - Hark how my triangle / A les je tichy kolem kol - Silent and lone the woods around / Struna naladena - Tune the strings oh gipsy / Siroke rukavy a siroke gate - In his wide and ample airy linen vesture / Kdyz mne stara matka - Songs my mother taught me / Dejte klec jestrabu - Cloudy heights of Tatra (Dvorak).
ARTISTS: Karita Mattila   Martin Katz    

- Jul-2007 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Aug-2007 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'aspects of love for the Finnish soprano'

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