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Pia Freund, Tommi Hakala, Kristian Attila - Norden: Songs by Jean Sibelius (2015)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 11 Aug 2019 18:51:51

Cardiff singer of the world competition winner Tommi Hakala, baritone, Pia Freund, soprano and Kristian Attila, piano, perform Sibelius “hits” that have become especially dear to them. Examples are Säv, säv susa (Sigh, Rushes, Sigh), Illalle (To Ilta) and Var det en dröm? (Was it a Dream?). Some of the songs are truly rare; these include En visa (A Song), which despite its serious message shows a very exceptional, relaxed and jovial Sibelius. It is also the first Lied he allowed to be published, and it dates from 1888. Examples of songs that are interesting in an unusual way are Marssnön (The March Snow), which comes very close to a Scandinavian folk song, and I natten (In the Night), with its simply evocative and impressionistic moods.

This selection of about a third of Sibelius’s solo songs with piano confirms again the composer’s imaginatively wide selection of (Swedish) lyrics to set, ranging from the sometimes sad Romantic country-based imagery of poets such as Johan Ludwig Runeberg (‘Tanken’ or ‘Norden’, ‘The Thought’ or ‘The North’) and Gustaf Fröding’s ‘Säf, säf, susa’ (‘Sigh, sigh, sedges’) to the very urban 20th-century wit of Hjalmar Procopé’s ‘Små flickorna’. Here the ‘Young Girls’ of the title ‘walk with pert expressions / And flustered morning fringes / To the tapping of typewriters / And telephone greetings’ and a teasing, walking piano accompaniment.

The push and pull of this ‘watching all the girls go by’ showtime atmosphere is perfectly judged here by Pia Freund and Kristian Attila – although the joke oddly seems to escape a more heavily paced rival reading from Elisabeth Söderström on Decca’s collection of all the songs. The immediately following, and rather spooky, ‘I natten’ (‘In the Night’) confirms the good touch and dramatic sense of Attila, who makes as much of these often-criticised piano parts (surely their space is meant as a kit for interpreters to work with) as any modern pianist aside from Bengt Forsberg for Anne Sofie von Otter.

Generally speaking, Freund and Tommi Hakala here find an attractively intimate, chamber route into these songs, short-changing on neither enjoyment nor pain but without the more heart-on-sleeve approach of the justifiably famous Kim Borg 1950s DG recital or von Otter’s BIS collection. It’s hard to signal outright winners in a field that’s happily increasing in both number and interpretative range, but this new collection, with well-balanced natural recording and including many better-known items, stands up well alongside the two cited above and that by Katarina Karnéus.

Review by Mike Ashman, Gramophone

Jean Sibelius at Allmusic
Jean Sibelius at Wiki

Tommi Hakala (baritone), Pia Freund (soprano), Kristian Attila (piano)

Tracklist:

01. Tanken (1:22)
02. Illalle, Op.17 No.6 (1:20)
03. Vem styrde hit din väg? Op.90 No.6 (2:26)
04. Bollspelet vid Trianon, Op.36 No.3 (1:38)
05. Under strandens granar, Op.13 No.1 (5:18)
06. Kyssens hopp, Op.13 No.2 (2:20)
07. Hjärtats morgon, Op.13 No.3 (2:16)
08. Den första kyssen, Op.37 No.1 (1:48)
09. Lasse liten, Op.37 No.2 (2:17)
10. Sommarnatten, Op.90 No.5 (2:31)
11. Våren flyktar hastigt, Op.13 No.4 (1:41)
12. Drömmen, Op.13 No.5 (1:57)
13. Till Frigga, Op.13 No.6 (4:02)
14. Säf, säf, susa, Op.36 No.4 (2:35)
15. Jägargossen, Op.13 No.7 (2:57)
16. Kaiutar, Op.72 No.4 (3:00)
17. Demanten på marssnön, Op.36 No.6 (2:32)
18. En Visa (1:23)
19. Svarta rosor, Op.36 No.1 (2:15)
20. Sov in! Op.17 No.2 (2:00)
21. Vilse, Op.17 No.4 (0:58)
22. Långsamt som kvällskyn, Op.61 No.1 (2:28)
23. Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte, Op.37 No.5 (3:12)
24. Hennes budskap, Op.90 No.2 (1:25)
25. Marssnön, Op.36 No.5 (1:08)
26. Små flickorna (2:59)
27. I natten, Op.38 No.3 (4:09)
28. Och finns det en tanke, Op.86 No.4 (1:53)
29. Norden, Op.90 No.1 (2:17)
30. Var det en dröm? Op.37 No.4 (2:00)

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