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29.01.2024

Hannu Lintu to become the Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s artistic partner in the autumn of 2025

He will also serve as artistic director of the International Sibelius Festival.

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  • Kalevi Aho

    Symphony No. 8 (WPR)
    Pergamon (WPR)

    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    Hans-Ola Ericsson, organ
    Lilli Paasikivi, Eeva-Liisa Saarinen,
    Tom Nyman and Matti Lehtinen, narrators

    BIS-CD-646, 8/1994

    Sponsored by Oy Lahden Polttimo Ab

    Records of the Year 1994 (Helsingin Sanomat)

  • Uuno Klami – Whirls

    Lemminkäinen’s Island Adventures (WPR)
    Song of Lake Kuujärvi
    Suites Nos 1 & 2 from the ballet Whirls (WPR)

    Esa Ruuttunen, baritone
    Osmo Vänskä, conductor

    BIS-CD-656, 4/1994

  • Uuno Klami

    The Copplers on the Heath, overture
    Theme with Seven Variations and Coda, op. 44
    Kalevala Suite, op. 23

    Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cello
    Osmo Vänskä, conductor

    BIS-CD-676, 11/1994

    Sponsored by Eiri Oy

  • Tauno Marttinen – Symphony No 1

    Symphony No. 1, Op. 2
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 13 Symphony No. 8, Op. 224

    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    Pekka Kauppinen, violin

    BIS-CD-701, 10/1994

  • Joonas Kokkonen IV

    Opus Sonorum (WPR)
    Requiem
    Symphony No. 3

    Soile Isokoski, soprano
    Walton Grönroos, baritone
    Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir
    Ulf Söderblom, conductor

    BIS-CD-508, 10/1991

    “Die Perfekte”, Record of the Month (Stereoplay 6/92, Germany)

    Records of the Year 1992 (Stereoplay 12/92)

  • Jean Sibelius – The Tempest

    Incidental Music to ‘The Tempest’ (Shakespeare),
    Op. 109 (complete version, WPR)

    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo-soprano (Ariel)
    Kirsi Tiihonen, soprano (Juno)
    Heikki Keinonen, baritone (Caliban)
    Anssi Hirvonen, tenor (Stephano)
    Paavo Kerola, tenor (Trinculo)
    The Lahti Opera Chorus

    BIS-CD-581, 10/1992

    Sponsored by B&K Oy

    Grand Prix du Disque 1993 (Académie Charles Cros, Paris)

    Records of the Year 1992 (Helsingin Sanomat)

  • Finlandia – a Festival of Finnish Music

    Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
    Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cantus arcticus, Op. 61
    Väinö Raitio : Joutsenet (The Swans)
    Einar Englund: Valkoinen peura (The White Reindeer, WPR)
    Jean Sibelius: Suite for Violin and String Orchestra,
    Op. 117 (WPR)*
    Felix Krohn : Odalisque (WPR)
    Uuno Klami: Pyöräilijä (The Cyclist, WPR)
    Trad.: Porilaisten marssi (March of the people of
    Pori), arr. Robert Kajanus (WPR)
    Fredrik Pacius: Maamme (Our Country), arr. Robert
    Kajanus (WPR)

    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    *Dong-Suk Kang, violin

    BIS-CD-575, 7/1992

    Gold Record 9/1998 (25.000 copies sold in Finland)

    Supporter of the marketing: Lahden Messut Oy

  • Joonas Kokkonen III

    Inauguratio (WPR)
    Interludes from the Opera the Last Temptations
    (WPR)
    Erekhtheion (cantata, WPR)
    Symphony No. 2

    Soile Isokoski, soprano
    Walton Grönroos, baritone
    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    The Academic Choral Society

    BIS-CD-498, 9/1991

  • Joonas Kokkonen V

    …durch einen Spiegel…
    Sinfonia da camera
    Il paesaggio (WRP)
    Wind Quintet

    Ulf Söderblom, conductor
    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    Sinfonia Lahti Wind Quintet

    BIS-CD-528, 11/1991