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Armas Järnefelt
Posted by Nils-Göran Olve on April 4, 2022, 8:12 am
The two reviews of Järnefelt's piano music rather underestimate his importance as one of three leading Finnish conductors during the first half of the 20th century (Kajanus, Schnéevoigt and Järnefelt), and as chief conductor of the Royal Opera in Stockholm for a quarter-century. His recorded legacy is less than ideal, but Carl-Gunnar Åhlen's scholarly collection of all on 10 CDs (Fuga 9391; 2016) contains many hours of commercial and noncommercial orchestral recordings, including three symphonies by his brother-in-law Sibelius. There are also some of his own works with him as pianist and conductor. When it came out one of your reviewers hinted at a forthcoming review, but I have not seen it.
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