Recordings

Tènor tenore! French and Italian opera arias

Giacomo Puccini
E lucevan le stelle
Recondita armonia
Che gelinda manina
Nessun dorma

Gaetano Donizetti
Ah! mes amis
Una furtiva lagrima

Giuseppe Verdi
La donna è mobile
Forse la soglia attinse
Celeste Aïda

Adolphe Adam
Mes amis, écoutez l’histoire

Charles Gounod
Salut! demeure chaste et pure
Ah! lève-toi, solei!

Georges Bizet
La fleur que tu m’avais jetèe

Jules Massenet
Pourquoi me rèveiller
Ah! fuyez, douce image

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Markus Lehtinen, conductor
Yinjia Gong, tenor

BIS-2066 SACD, 6/2015

Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite and The Wood Nymph

Lemminkäinen Suite
The Wood-Nymph

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor

BIS-SACD-1745, 4/2014

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Kalevi Aho

Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (2007)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Piet Van Bockstal, oboe

Solo IX (2010)
Piet Van Bockstal, oboe

Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1984-85)
Piet Van Bockstal, oboe
Yutaka Oya, piano

BIS-SACD-1876, 1/2013

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Kalevi Aho

Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Minea (2008)
Osmo Vänskä, conductor

Double Bass Concerto (2005)
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Eero Munter, double bass

Symphony No. 15 (2009-10)
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor

BIS-SACD-1866, 11/2013

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Jean Sibelius – Masonic Ritual Music

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957):

Musique religieuse, Op. 113 –
Original version for tenor, male voice choir and organ
Hannu Jurmu, tenor
YL Male Voice Choir, cond. Matti Hyökki
Harri Viitanen, organ

Musique religieuse, Op. 113 –
Arrangement for tenor, orchestra and organ
(arr. Jaakko Kuusisto, 2007)
Mika Pohjonen, tenor
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. Jaakko Kuusisto
Pauli Pietiläinen, organ

BIS-CD-1977, 9/2013

The Red Violin

Jaakko Kuusisto (b. 1974):
Leika (2010)
Violin Concerto (2011-12)

John Corigliano (b. 1938)
Violin Concerto ‘The Red Violin’ (2003)

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Elina Vähälä, violin

BIS-2020 SACD, 7/2013

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Coloratura

Reinhold Glière (1875-1956): Concerto for coloratura
soprano and orchestra, Op. 82
Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896):
Scène et air d’Ophelia (from Hamlet)
Léo Delibes (1836-1891):
The Bell Song (from Lakmé)
Aleksander Alyabyev (1787-1851): The Nightingale
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791):
Der Hölle Rache (from Die Zauberflöte)
John Zorn: (1953-): La Machine de l’être
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Luonnotar, op. 70

Sakari Oramo, conductor
Anu Komsi, soprano

BIS-SACD-1962, 9/2012

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Dmitri Šostakovitš

Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 34
Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102

Okko Kamu, conductor
Andrei Korobeinikov, piano
Mikhail Gaiduk, trumpet

MIR 155 (Mirare), 2/2012

Ilkka Kuusisto – Orchestral Works

Symphony No. 1 (1998)
Concertino improvvisando (2006)
Kun talo alkaa soida
(When the house begins to resound, 1992)

Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jorma Hynninen, baritone

BIS-CD-1847, 10/2011

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