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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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  • Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5, En Saga

    Symphony No. 5 , Op. 82
    (original version 1915, WPR)
    En Saga, Op. 9 (Original version 1892 WPR)

    Osmo Vänskä, conductor

    BIS-CD-800, 2/1996

    Sponsored by Telecom Finland

    The Gramophone Award 1996
    for Best Engineered recording
    Cannes Classical Award 1997

    Orchestral Classical Award 1997
    Orchestral Music – CD Premiere
    Record of the Year 1996 (Sunday Telegraph)
    Record of the Year 1996 (Svenska Dagbladet)
    Records of the Year 1996 (Helsingin Sanomat)
    Classic CD Awards 1997 (Classic CD)

  • Sibelius – Jedermann

    Jedermann, Op. 83 (WPR)
    Belshazzar’s Feast, Op. 51 (WPR)
    The Countess’s Portrait

    Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo-soprano
    Petri Lehto, tenor
    Sauli Tiilikainen, baritone
    Lahti Chamber Choir
    Osmo Vänskä, conductor

    BIS-CD-735, 8/1995

    Sponsored by Rank Xerox

  • Kalevi Aho

    Symphony No. 9
    Concerto for cello and orchestra

    Cristian Lindberg, trombone
    Gary Hoffman, cello
    Osmo Vänskä, conductor

    BIS-CD-706, 5/1995

    Sponsored by Schauman Wood Oy Kymmene

  • Uuno Klami

    Whirls, Act 1
    Violin Concerto, Op. 32
    Suomenlinna, Op. 30

    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    Jennifer Koh, violin

    BIS-CD-696, 6/1997

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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)