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Ondine's booklet tells us that the young Finnish conductor Mikko Franck (a graduate of Helsinki's Sibelius Academy and still just in his early 20s) has already been creating quite a stir in Scandinavia--no wonder, if this incredibly promising debut CD is anything to go by.
En Saga immediately proclaims a vital and intelligent personality on the podium. Textures are imaginatively sifted, phrases thoughtfully shaped and there's a strong sense of slumbering, bardic atmosphere--in the dusky coda the clarinet's unforgettably poignant song resonates with an elemental mystery as old as time itself. The
Lemminkainen Legends are even more distinctive, nowhere more so than in the opening "Lemminkainen and the Maidens of Saari", which Franck surveys in extraordinarily individual fashion (the love music now glows with a voluptuous, positively Wagnerian ardour). "The Swan of Tuonela" glides across the water with a sombre, lofty majesty, while the strings' dusky
tremolandi in "Lemminkainen in Tuonela" really do chill to the marrow. Even in "Lemminkainen's Return" Franck artfully avoids any hint of excitable bluster. While not displacing
Segerstam's masterly and characterful Legends (also on Ondine) at the top of the pile, Franck's intensely stimulating interpretation certainly demands to be experienced. --
Andrew Achenbach
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