Afkham & Say

A belt of volcanoes, the glowing ring around the moon at sunset or the moment of birth: Outi Tarkiainen deliberately gave her ›The Ring of Fire and Love‹ a title with multiple meanings. It is about the »earth-shattering, creative, cataclysmic moment« that people live through together. The catastrophe of World War II but also the Stalinist terror marked Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth. It is the darkest of his »war symphonies«, whose indictment of inhumanity and suffering even led to it being banned for a time. Fazıl Say’s Third Piano Concerto also has a rhythmic impact, and its virtuosic, whirring