The latest offering from BMG includes a number of BIS releases, including
a composer I'd never heard of: Kaveli Aho, a Finnish composer. BMG
is offering a disk containing his 2nd and 7th Symphonies, the latter
a reworking of his opera on the play "The Insects" by Karel Kapek (The
famous author of R.U.R., which gives us the word "Robot," I believe.)
Upon checking Aho in Tower on line (which I always find has very extensive
selections,) I discover many CDs of Mr. Aho's symphonies and some chamber
music as well. The Tower sound samples of the 7th are pretty impressive
to me. Tho I personally found the samples of his Quintet for Bassoon &
Strings rather ugly sounding. Anyone have opinions on these or other
works of is?
Dave Wolf [log in to unmask]