{"id":24,"date":"2012-09-18T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-dev\/sampsaertamo\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T07:19:44","slug":"reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sampsaertamo.com\/en\/reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cErtamo\u2019s music comes from another planet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jukka Isopuro, Helsingin Sanomat 17.2.2011<\/p>\n

Anniversary Series: Final Concert, Palokunnantalo 1.12.2009
\nH\u00e4meenlinna City Orchestra, Tuomas Piril\u00e4<\/p>\n

\u201cEmerging H\u00e4meenlinna-based composer Sampsa Ertamo has composed his musical bouquet Hommage \u00e0 Jarmo Sermil\u00e4 especially for the occasion. The work proved very successful and is marked by a driving sense of rhythm, rich string textures and the clear contrast between different musical characters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Markus Mantere, H\u00e4meen Sanomat 3.12.2009<\/p>\n

Sampsa Ertamo\u2019s Focus Concert, Sibelius Academy Chamber Music Hall, 15.2.2011
\nUusinta Chamber Ensemble, Seppo Salovius, Tuuli Lindeberg<\/p>\n

\u201c37-year-old H\u00e4meenlinna-based Sampsa Ertamo might be described as something of a compositional dissident. Still, he doesn\u2019t swim against the current for the mere sake of it. For him, composing appears to be a form of existence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jukka Isopuro, Helsingin Sanomat 17.2.2011<\/p>\n

Electro-acoustic music at the Verkatehdas Studio (H\u00e4meenlinna), 15.4.2011<\/p>\n

\u201cElectro-acoustic contemporary music is often considered a difficult genre, one that lay-people cannot understand in the least. Hopefully this notion was finally dispelled at Friday\u2019s concert, which featured works by Sampsa Ertamo, Lauri Toivio and Mikko Perkola.<\/p>\n

I have heard Ertamo\u2019s music before, but his electro-acoustic output was a new discovery for me. Friday\u2019s programme contained a number of gems, including a new work for tape entitled Electrosaarna (\u2018Electro-Sermon\u2019) in which a radio voice chanting nonsense lyrics, a background of choral allusions, and photography by Vilja Tamminen came together to create a rich and fascinating musical experience.<\/p>\n

The work is almost like a radio play, but aptly demonstrates how music can produce meaning and narrative on a variety of levels without the use of language.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Markus Mantere, H\u00e4meen Sanomat 17.4.2011<\/p>\n

Concert to celebrate Finnish Independence Day, Sibelius Hall 6.12.2011
\nSinfonia Lahti, Okko Kamu<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work [Juhla-alkusoitto \/ \u2018Festive Overture\u2019] made a positive impact, though I found it hard to detect a sense of solemnity in the music. The brass open the work handsomely \u2013 not with a grand fanfare but with a volley of noisy interjections. After the entrance of the strings, the music progresses in fits and starts like a giant steam engine. Though the work occasionally relaxed into a gentler, atmospheric mood, the music retained its energetic pulse throughout [\u2026]<\/p>\n

One of the most admirable features of Ertamo\u2019s musical language is its logical sense of direction. Though at first the listener may not necessarily be able to locate the thread in his music, there is always a sense that such a thread nonetheless exists. The same applies to the music\u2019s harmonic language.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arto Sakari Korpinen, Etel\u00e4-Suomen Sanomat, 8.12.2011<\/p>\n

Sibelius\u2019 Birthday Concert, Vanaja Hall (Verkatehdas, H\u00e4meenlinna) 8.12.2011
\nSinfonia Lahti, Okko Kamu<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [\u2018Festive Overture\u2019] is filled with motion and a suitably angular rhythmic verve, though a number of its transitions are rather clunky. Thankfully these are evened out by the work\u2019s tightly controlled network of motifs, tying each of the sections together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Samuli Tikkaja, Helsingin Sanomat 10.12.2011<\/p>\n

Sibelius\u2019 Birthday Concert, Vanaja Hall (Verkatehdas, H\u00e4meenlinna) 8.12.2011
\nSinfonia Lahti, Okko Kamu<\/p>\n

\u201cPremi\u00e8red earlier this week, Sampsa Ertamo\u2019s \u2018Festive Overture\u2019 shifted between jerky, neo-classical rhythmic music and darker, slow sections dominated by expansive melodies.<\/p>\n

The transitions between different sections were often sudden and abrupt. At its outset, the music at times resembled the barrel-organ music one might hear at the circus. The slower sections were often coloured by shimmering tremolo textures in the strings. The work, which seemed over in a flash, reached its conclusion with a rousing flourish.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aki Yli-Salom\u00e4ki, H\u00e4meen Sanomat 10.12.2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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