Lepo Sumera: Symphonies Nos.1-3 [Import]

Lepo Sumera (Composer), Paavo Järvi (Conductor), Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Malmö Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Paavo Järvi
• Composer: Lepo Sumera
• Audio CD (October 14, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B0000016KX
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,218 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I. '1/4nt'=c.72

2. II. '1/4nt'=60-84-Allegro

3. I. Moderato Tranquillo

4. II. Interludium

5. III. Spirituoso

6. I. Allegro Ma Non Affettuoso

7. II. Calmo

8. Adagio-Animato

9. IV. Larghetto, Quasi Senza Metrum

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully evocative modern music, November 12, 1999

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karlm (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lepo Sumera: Symphonies Nos.1-3 (Audio CD)

This was a gamble CD for me but I am very happy I purchased it. Think of a cross between Philip Glass, Schnittke, and Sibelius. The texture is very clean and the music has great momentum. My favorite is the Symphony No. 2 with its atmospheric middle movement which is followed by a breathtaking finale that runs through all twelve minor keys till it dramatically hits the home key with full orchestral furry. The effect is really powerful.

This CD is an exceptional value, very well recorded, and completely enjoyable to those who enjoy northern landscapes and modern music.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars buy it!!, May 31, 2006

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John C. Leopold "JL" (colorado springs, co United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lepo Sumera: Symphonies Nos.1-3 (Audio CD)

Check out the second symphony - an unheard treasure. Why this is not played on our local stations is beyond me except that it was composed by an Estonian composer who is not known well outside his country. The last movement of the 2nd builds up to an overwhelming, intoxicating climax of brass and strings and then feathers off into nothingness. Eight minutes is gone before you know it. Grab you wife or significant other on a dark, stormy night and play this --

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sumera: an outstanding and distinctive late 20th C composer, August 17, 2010

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Robert Hughes (Ohio State University, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lepo Sumera: Symphonies Nos.1-3 (Audio CD)

If you are expecting another competent symphonist whose gifts for late romantic composition and textures make the locals (perhaps justifiably!) proud, but who offers little distinctive merit for outsiders, well, you have a real treat waiting for you. Sumera was quite special and very "accessible," in the best sense of the word. His tense, rhythmic flair and his melodicism make him generally closer to John Adams, to my American ears, than to Arvo Pärt or Erkki-Sven Tüür or Helena Tulve (speaking of whom, how can there be so many freakishly excellent Estonian composers?). All of the Järvi BIS Sumera symphony discs are great, the Kaljuste choral disc is very, very fine, and the (harder to find) chamber collections are worth hunting down. You really can't go wrong with Sumera--he's just that good--and I think he should please a broad range of classical tastes, from the fairly conservative to those more committed to contemporary trends in post-Shostakovian writing.