Not directly related (maybe should go in the other forum, sorry) but assuming Aare can also be spelled Aarre (they could be different people even with the same name exactly of course as I well remember
), how is the Finlandia CD that contains two of his violin concertos (probably NLA except at libraries etc. at present, from 1991 (part of it released in 1987)? The conductors' names are promising at least.) (I see there's also an Ondine CD of his piano concertos from 1998...) (hrm. Google Books has a preview of a book (
After Sibelius: studies in Finnish music edited by Tim Howell) with some interesting info about the Merikanto symphonies - sym. 1 opus 5 premiered?, with the piano concerto no.1 opus 3, in the first concert of Aarre Merikanto's works in 1914 in Helsinki, which was repeated; another concert, in 1917, in which symphony no.2 was premiered, "received a far less jubilant reception". Renamed his symphony no.3 Fantasia in 1923, not I think premiered until the 1950s soon before Merikanto's death I think I read somewhere else- not sure.
