Recordings

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 – 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)

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 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

Matti Salminen, bass – Opera Arias

Opera arias composed by Beethoven, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Wagner

Matti Salminen, bass
Eri Klas, conductor

BIS-CD-520, 10/1991

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: 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