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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto

    Violin Concerto, Op. 47
    (original version 1903/1904, WPR)
    Violin Concerto, Op. 47 (final version 1905)

    Osmo Vänskä, conductor
    Leonidas Kavakos, violin

    BIS-CD-500, 2/1991

    Sponsored by Asko Oy

    Gold Record 1992
    The first ever Gold Record of orchestral music in Finland (25.000 copies sold 8.12.1992)

    Gramophone Award 1991
    Best Concerto Recording 1991

    Record of the year 1991 (The U.K. Sibelius Society)
    Pick of the year” (Classic CD, the U.K.)
    Records of the year 1991 (Helsingin Sanomat)

     

     

  • Joonas Kokkonen II

    Music for String Orchestra
    The Hades of the Birds (song cycle, WPR)
    Symphony No. 1 (WPR)

    Ulf Söderblom, conductor
    Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano

    BIS-CD-485, 1/1991

  • 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