Recordings

Jean Sibelius – Symphony No 1 & 4

Symphony No. 1, Op. 39
Symphony No. 4, Op. 63

Osmo Vänskä, conductor

BIS-CD-861, 4/1997

Sponsored by Metsäliitto Group and Telecom Finland Oy (TELE)

Critic’s Choice 1998 (Gramophone)
Record of the Year 1997 (The Sunday Times)

Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 6, Op. 104
Symphony No. 7, Op. 105

Osmo Vänskä, conductor

BIS-CD-864, 12/1997

Sponsored by Metsäliitto Group and Telecom Finland Oy TELE

Jean Sibelius – Karelia, complete score

Karelia, complete score (WPR), completed and reconstructed by Kalevi Aho
Kuolema, incidental music (WPR)
Valse triste

Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Kirsi Tiihonen, soprano
Raimo laukka, baritone
Heikki Laitinen and Taito Hoffren, vocal

BIS-CD-915, 10/1997

Record of the Year 1998
(United Kindom Sibelius Society)

The best CD of 1997 (The Times)

Dances with the Winds

Flute Concertos:
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Dances with the Winds
Leonid Bashmakov: Impressioni marine
Aulis Sallinen: Chamber Music II
Tauno Marttinen: Concerto espagnole

Petri Alanko, flutes
Osmo Vänskä, conductor

BIS-CD-687, 1/1996

Records of the Year 1996 (Helsingin Sanomat)

Sibelius – The Wood Nymph

The Wood-Nymph, Op. 15, the Poem and
Melodrama (WPR)
A Lonely Ski-Trail
Swanwhite, Op. 54 (WPR)

Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Lasse Pöysti, narrator

BIS-CD-815, 5/1996

Sponsored by Metsäliitto Group

Cannes Classical Award 1997

Orchestral Music – CD Premiere Records of the Year 1996 (Helsingin Sanomat)
Record of the Year (United Kingdom Sibelius Society)

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)

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

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