Moderato – Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor, JS131
Allegro in E minor, JS28
Allegretto in A major, JS17/Piu lento in F major, JS149
Adagio in F minor, JS14
Allegretto in B flat major
Fuga för Martin Wegelius, JS85
String Quartet in A minor, JS183

Robert Kajanus was born in Helsinki in 1856 and, like almost all serious Scandinavian musicians of the day, he spent some of his formative years in Leipzig. Perhaps his biggest contribution to emergent Finnish music lay in his founding the Helsinki Orchestra Society. Under Kajanus’s baton the orchestra reached a high level of proficiency. It is claimed that Sibelius was inspired to write his Kullervo Symphony by hearing a performance of Kajanus’s symphonic poem (with final chorus) Aino which is one of the works featured on this disc.

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Release: Jun 2006