DECEMBER’S NEW ALBUM RELEASES 2023
4/1/2024
December's New Album Releases 2023
December brought the release of Javier Perianes’ Goyescas — El pelele on harmonia mundi, bringing together pieces by Enrique Granados.
Francisco Goya’s paintings have left a powerful imprint on the European imagination. It was undoubtedly Granados who best translated into music, with nobility and humour, this colourful universe where majos and majas dance to love and death in the twilight glow of a dying Ancien Régime.
Next, Pekka Kuusisto conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in the world premiere recording of Jaakko Kuusisto’s Symphony. Martyn Brabbins conducts performances of Jaakko Kuusisto’s Pictured Within and Birthday Variations for M.C.B. with the Helsinki Philharmonic and BBC Scottish Symphony orchestras.
The album is a double tribute to mark the 60th birthday of conductor Martyn Brabbins, as well as composer, conductor and violinist Jaakko Kuusisto who passed away in 2022. Illness left Jaakko no time to complete his Symphony, so it fell to his brother Pekka – who conducts here – and Jari Eskola to finish it.