On March 25, Naxos releases the latest recording of works by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, featuring the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and its dynamic young Music Director Pietari Inkinen. The three works featured— Apotheosis; Manhattan Trilogy; and Symphony No. 8 (Naxos 8570069)—are indicative of the direction that Rautavaara’s orchestral music has taken during the last decade.
Apotheosis (1996) is a revision of the final movement from Rautavaara’s Sixth Symphony
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