Recital - Blicke Mir Nicht In Die Lieder

The joint history of former string quartet violinist Virpi Räisänen and the Danel Quartet began almost thirty years ago when the young chamber musicians met at the master class of the legendary Borodin Quartet at the Britten-Pears School in England.
Almost a couple of decades passed, when Räisänen, who had built an international career as a singer in the meantime, suddenly found himself performing in Belgium at the same festival as the Danel quartet. The performance in question did not follow the traditional composition, where the quartet acts as an accompanist for the vocal soloist. Instead, it turned out to be an equal chamber music partnership, where the singer blended seamlessly into the quartet as a whole, as if its fifth member. After this performance, joint concerts in different parts of Europe have followed each other, and now Virpi Räisänen and the Danel Quartet have recorded a collection together, which includes works suitable for a mezzo-soprano-string quartet ensemble.
The recording was made in Virpi's hometown in northern Finland, in the small village of Yli-Ii, part of the city of Oulu, where the Kierikki Stone Age Center, one of the most famous archeological centers in Finland and the Nordic countries, is located. The log-built Kierikki Center and its auditorium, which is perfectly suitable for chamber music, have received several national and international architecture awards, and the center also serves as a concert hall in addition to being a congress hall."