Highlights from Lahti (Part 1) #9632
A too-brief summary of the popular late-summer festival and international competition in Finland.
JOSEPH BONNET: Concert Variations, Opus 1 –Dame Gillian Weir
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Serene Alleluias, from Ascension Suite –Ligita Sneibe, competition second prize
MAURICE DURUFLÉ: Prelude & Fugue on the Name ALAIN, Opus 7 –Hanne Kuhlmann, competition first prize
SALLINEN: Chaconne –Olli Porthan
LOUIS VIERNE: Water Nymphs, Opus 55, number 4. NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumble-bee. JEAN GUILLOU: Toccata –Olivier Latry
FRANZ LISZT: Consolation Number 1 in E –Francesco Finotti
OSKAR MERIKANTO: Prelude & Fugue in e –Kari Vuola
MARCO ENRICO BOSSI: Melodia, Number 5 and Marcia Festiv, Number 8, Opus 118 –Maija Lehtonen
OSKAR MERIKANTO: Postludium Number 1 in E-flat –Erkki Tuppurainen
These recordings were provided by the Finnish Radio, Helsinki. Performances feature the 1979 Virtanen organ of fifty-two stops at the Church of the Cross in Lahti, Finland. For more information about the Lahti Organ Festival, which is held each summer in the last week of July and first week of August, write: Lahti Festival, Kirkkokatu 5, SF-15110 Lahti, Finland.
