Reviews
“Nothing less than a milestone in the history of the Finnish violin concerto”
HUFVUDSTADSBLADET
(1977 – a Violin Concerto)
“Music of great beauty and emotional depth.”
KESKI-POHJANMAA
(You Are the Earth Beneath You)
“An event well beyond the ordinary”
HUFVUDSTADSBLADET
(1977 – a Violin Concerto)
“This music does not sound like anything else I have heard before – how often do you have reason to say this about a piece by a 30-year-old composer?”
HUFVUDSTADSBLADET
(Miracle)
“A composer fully at home with his materials, keenly aware of tradition while reshaping it into something genuinely fresh and profoundly fascinating.”
AIM
(String Quartet No. 2 – Lion’s Teeth)
“The Hillian expression feels completely original, meaningful, fresh and, not least, thoroughly honest. This is the music of our time in all its glory.”
HUFVUDSTADSBLADET
(Miracle)
“Hilli blends together influences from here and there in an unprejudiced manner and the aesthetics are neither distinctly modernist nor traditional“
HBL
(Affekt)
“This music is both deeply personal and—despite its apparent simplicity—strikingly original.”
HUFVUDSTADSBLADET
(Miracle)
“A magnificent, magnificent work”
KESKI-POHJANMAA
(You are The Earth Beneath You)
“One of the most thought-provoking new concerti to enter the stages in a good long while, one hopes that this remarkable score gets to travel far and wide.“
AIM
(1977 – a Violin Concerto)
“Personal and heart-rendering”
RONDO
(Miracle)
“Music can – and it must – talk about the world as well. Hilli talked. About music, through music and outside the music.“
HELSINGIN SANOMAT
(Snap Music)
“Skilfully unique, intoxicated by the heat.”
HELSINGIN SANOMAT
(Peach)
“The work is a testament to Hilli’s great talent, it is taut and vital music.”
HELSINGIN SANOMAT
(Peach)
“Hilli’s music defies the stereotype of contemporary music as strictly serious and austere“
KESKI-POHJANMAA
(You Are the Earh Beneath You)
”A sonic dream-quest, a safe space filled with absorbing textures of soothing spectral beauty and empowering post-minimalist energy.”
AIM
(Teddy)
"One of the finest entries to the solo accordion repertoire in recent years."
AIM
(Teddy)
“A substantial affair in three movements, foraying further into the post-minimalist territory, examined with highly personal flavor – to riveting effect.“
AIM
(String Quartet No. 2 – Lion’s Teeth)