Kalevi Aho - String Quartets 1-3 (Stenhammar Quartet)

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Composer: Kalevi Aho

• String Quartet No. 2
• String Quartet No. 3
• String Quartet No. 1

Stenhammar Quartet

    Peter Olofsson, violin

    Per Öman, violin

    Tony Bauer, viola

    Mats Olofsson, cello

Date: 2024

Label: BIS

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Kalevi Aho, one of Finland’s foremost contemporary composers, was born in Forssa in southern Finland on 9th March 1949. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, then with Boris Blacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik and darstellende Kunst Berlin. Since 1993 he has worked in Helsinki as a freelance composer. The central focus of Aho’s work consists of large-scale orchestral, chamber and vocal works. To date (spring 2024) his output includes five operas, eighteen symphonies, forty-one concertos, three chamber symphonies and a large amount of other vocal, chamber and instrumental music.

Formed in 2002, the Stenhammar Quartet has established itself as one of Scandinavia’s leading string quartets. A wide-ranging repertoire spans from the Classical period to contemporary works, while naturally affording the quartets of Wilhelm Stenhammar and other Swedish composers their allotted space. The Quartet has made numerous recordings for Swedish Radio, participated in broadcasts on Swedish television and been the subject of a documentary on the French music channel Mezzo.

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