RSO: John Storgårds johtaa Live-taltiointi 11.12.2020

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Radion sinfoniaorkesterin konsertin ohjelmassa on Unsuk Chinin taiturillinen teos Cantatrix sopranica, jonka solisteina laulavat sopraanot Piia Komsi ja Anu Komsi sekä kontratenori Pasi Hyökki. Teoksen nimi tarkoittaa sopraanolaulajaa, ja säveltäjä kirjoitti sen nimenomaan Komsin sisaruksia varten. Kokkolalaissyntyiset kaksoset Anu ja Piia Komsi ovat kummankin oman uran rinnalla laulaneet yhdessä koko elämänsä, taaperoikäisten yhteisestä St Pauli ja Reeperbahn -esityksestä heille omistettuihin nykymusiikkiteoksiin maailman metropoleissa. Lotta Emanuelsson tapasi sisarukset RSO:n harjoitusten lomassa Musiikkitalon aulassa.  (Teksti Yle Radio1, Areena audio)

Linkki haastatteluun:

Ennen illan konserttia: Kaksoset ja kollegat

John Storgårds, kapellimestari

Solistit: Anu Komsi, Piia Komsi ja Pasi Hyökki.

Ohjelma:
Einar Englund: De profundis.
Unsuk Chin: Cantatrix Sopranica. Pjotr Tshaikovski: Entr’acte Hamlet.
W. A. Mozart: Sinfonia nro 26 KV184/161a.

Suora lähetys Helsingin Musiikkitalosta 11.12.2020.

RSO Live Broadcast: John Storgårds & Anu ja Pia Komsi & Pasi Hyökki

Perjantai 11.12.2020 klo 20.00Musiikkitalo, Konserttisali

Yle Radio 1 & Yle Areena & Yle Teema & Yle TV 1

Finnish Radio Orchestra (RSO) – Live television & radio broadcast
Dirigent:  John Storgårds

Sopranos: Anu Komsi and Piia Komsi
Contratenor: Pasi Hyökki

Ohjelma / Programm:

Einar Englund: De Profundis
Unsuk Chin: Cantatrix Sopranica
Pjotr Ts?aikovski: Entr’acte (Élégie), näytelmämusiikista Hamlet op. 67a
W. A. Mozart: Sinfonia nro 26 Es-duuri

Konserttiin ei viranomaisohjeistuksen takia oteta yleisöä, vaan se kuullaan suorana lähetyksenä Yle Teemalla, Yle Areenassa ja Yle Radio 1:ssä.

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Piia Komsi nominated for Opus Klassik 2019 Awards

Great News: Piia Komsi has been nominated in two categories for the prestigious Opus Klassik 2019 Awards!

Category 1: Female Singer of the Year
Piia received the nomination in this category for her performance of Rolf Riehm’s “Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder / O Daddy” , in a live recording.

Category 9: Vocal Soloist Recording: Concert
Komsi, Piia – Rolf Riehm: “Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder / O Daddy”

Congratulations to Piia Komsi and all other nominees!

Avanti! Suvisoitto Festivaali

Shopping Angels
Aika: perjantai 28.6.2019 klo 12.00
Paikka: Borgå Gymnasium
Kesto noin 1h

Baldur Brönnimann, kapellimestari
Piia Komsi, laulu ja sello
Kamariorkesteri Avanti!

Vinko Globokarin improvisaatioon perustuvassa La Ronde teoksessa muusikot joutuvat sosiaalisten ja musiikillisten ongelmien noidankehään. Teoksen esittäjät eivät tiedä miten teos alkaa puhumattakaan siitä, miten se loppuu.

Lauluja rakkaudesta – sydämen purppuralintu lentää yön läpi

Sunnuntaina, 24.2.2019 klo 15 Ateneumusali, Ateneumin taidemuseo

Anton Webernin ja aikalaisten teoksia – lied-resitaalimatka synestesian maailmaan Sara Oravan maalausten ja tanssija Milla Elorannan liikkeen mukana.

Piia Komsi, sopraano/ Ilmo Ranta, piano/ Milla Eloranta, tanssi-koreografia/ Sara Orava, kuvataide

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Rolf Riehm: Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder (CD)

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Ajassa soi: Tapio Tuomelan sävellyksiä

Tapio Tuomelan lokakuisessa sävellyskonsertissa juhlittiin Tuomelan 60-vuotissyntymäpäivää.

“Sopranen Piia Komsi kastade sig virtuost in i alla rollerna och bjöd på en oförglömlig show.”   – Anna Pulkkis, HBL (17.10.2018)

Ajassa soi -ohjelmassa kuullaan seuraavat konsertissa äänitetyt teokset: 
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Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Italian Premiere

We are very honored to announce that Italy’s National Association of Music Critics has awarded Pascal Dusapin’s Medeamaterial (Teatro Comunale di Bologna) the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize for the best Italian Premiere of 2017.

Piia Komsi, who performed the titular role Medea, has previously received outstanding reviews:
Excellent International Reviews for Finnish Coloratura Soprano Piia Komsi

Photograph (c) Rocco Casaluci

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BBC Radio 3 in Concert: Total Immersion Esa-Pekka Salonen

Programme available shortly after the broadcast (3/12/2018) on BBC Radio 3

Total Immersion Esa-Pekka Salonen. Thrilling music by the Finnish composer performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by fellow Finn and friend Sakari Oramo.

Recorded at the Barbican on Sunday 10th December 2017
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Gambit (1998)
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Wing on Wing (2004)*

8.15pm
INTERVAL including an interview with Esa-Pekka Salonen

8.30pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Mimo II (1992) +
Esa-Pekka Salonen Salone: Karawane** (2013-14)

*Anu Komsi & Pia Komsi (sopranos)
+ Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
** BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

The concluding concert of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Esa-Pekka Salonen Total Immersion day at the Barbican Hall on December 10th 2017 was devoted to Salonen’s striking orchestral music. ‘Wing on Wing’, inspired by the striking architecture of Los Angeles’s Disney Hall, weaves soprano voices with electronics, the sounds of fish, and the voice of architect Frank O Gehry. While ‘Karawane’ sets a Dadaist text by Hugo Ball for which the BBC Symphony Chorus joined the orchestra. Prepare for a sound-world sensuous, beguiling and often unashamedly beautiful.

Great reviews for Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Barbican

BBC Symphony Orchestra – Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Anu Komsi & Piia Komsi, BBC Singers, Nicholas Chalmers, Nicholas Daniel, Sakari Oramo
Sunday, December 10, 2017 Milton Court Concert Hall & Barbican Hall, London
“Wing on Wing, composed for the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, is a huge, celebratory piece that deserves to survive beyond its original purpose thanks to its big imagination and the chance it offered to hear Anu and Piia Komsi, the Finnish high-wire soprano twins.”  – Richard Fairman, Financial Times Financial Times – Salonen Total Immersion review – 11 December 2017

“Attractive woodwind riffs bubble up through the curtain-raiser Gambit, and the writing for the phenomenal Komsi twins, Anu (Mrs Oramo) and Piia in Wing on Wing (pictured above with Oramo and the BBCSO), previously heard performing the work in the same hall over a decade ago, never repeats the opening siren-like formula for them as they move around the hall. It would be hard to imagine this half-hour extravaganza without them; anyone resistant to the confrontational glamour of the piece would still have to make obeisance to their luminous blend of the vocal and the instrumental,” – David Nice, The Arts Desk
The Arts Desk – Salonen Total Immersion concert review – 11 December 2017

“On a much larger scale, his half-hour Wing on Wing (2004) expands this approach. He wrote it for the opening of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, a wildly virtuosic piece of statement architecture matched by the Californian confidence of Salonen’s music. The huge orchestra comes with two coloratura sopranos (sisters Anu and Piia Komsi; Anu is married to Sakari Oramo), the electronically sampled voice of Gehry, more drawl than words, and the ‘song’ of the plainfin midshipman, a remarkably ugly fish that thrives in that part of the ocean. The title refers to the maximum area of sail on a boat, which in turn refers to a particular view of the Disney Hall. The Komsi sisters (who sang in the world and UK premieres) were in stratospheric voice and had their work cut out legging it to the uppermost parts of the auditorium for vocalise effects (with results similar to Holst’s Planets Suite), and the piece ranges from a monolithic solidity on a par with ‘The Great Gate of Kiev’ to a superbly realised impressionism so vaporous as to re-site La mer in the Pacific. Salonen’s programme note was useful but you got the gist of the piece without it. It is action-packed music, completely justifying the extravagant forces and played and conducted with irresistible can-do bravura.” – Peter Reed, Classical Source