Recordings

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

Joonas Kokkonen: Volume 1 of the Complete Orchestral Music

Symphonic Sketches (WPR)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Symphony No. 4

Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Torleif Thedéen, cello

BIS-CD-468, 5/1990

Record of the year 1990 (Helsingin Sanomat)

Kalevi Aho – Symphony No 1

Silence (WPR)
Symphony No. 1 (WPR)
Violin Concerto (WPR)

Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Manfred Gräsbeck, violin

BIS-CD-359, 3/1989

Sponsored by Paloheimo Oy

Paul Hindemith

Das Marienleben, Op. 27
(WPR of the orchestral version)
Aulis Sallinen: Four Dream Songs
(WPR of the orchestral version)
Aarre Merikanto: Genesis (WPR)

Ulf Söderblom, conductor
Karita Mattila, soprano
Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir

Finlandia FACD 359, 1988

Sponsored by The Union Bank of Finland

Bernhard Henrik Crusell: The Three Clarinet Consertoes

Osmo Vänskä, Conductor
Karl Leister, Clarinet

BIS-CD-345, 1/1987

Bernhard Henrik Crusell: Kolme klarinettikonserttoa

Osmo Vänskä, kapellimestari
Karl Leister, klarinetti

BIS-CD-345, 1/1987