2007 sees the fiftieth
anniversary of the death of Sibelius.
For good or ill such calendar 'events'
provide a catalyst for various forms
of activity. Celebrations seem out of
place given that it is half a century
since Sibelius died. What we celebrate
is his music and in that case, given
the long silence from Järvenpää,
perhaps we should in future look away
from 1957 and concentrate on some date
in the early 1920s when Sibelius's last
substantial compositions emerged into
the world.
From the founding of BIS by Robert von Bahr in the early
1970s the plan has been to record every
single note Sibelius wrote. That goal
is to produce the most comprehensive
edition of any composer in the history
of music; quite a challenege when you
look at what has been done for Bach
and Mozart. According to Robert von
Bahr that goal is "around the corner".
This box is a thoughtful and capacious
prelude to the Complete Edition. The
pricing serves to reflect both the fact
that much here is reissued from existing
discs and also perhaps that the music
is made more accessible to music-lovers,
students and schools everywhere.
Major omissions in
a box running to fifteen discs and claiming
to capture The Essential Sibelius?
There is only one and that is the curious
absence of the tone poem Nightride
and Sunrise. Whatever happened?
Otherwise the challenge thrown down
by such a title has been triumphantly
met over five hours short of a full
day's continuous playing. In a world
where such a title usually denotes a
single or double disc of movements and
short snippets (see Warner-Finlandia
0630130342) this BIS collection is a
seriously considered and confidently
executed project.
What do you get? All
the symphonies are there including Kullervo
and Lemminkainen although
not the original version of the Fifth
Symphony. The Violin Concerto and many
of the violin concertante pieces (including
the blessed Humoresques) are
lined up but again not the original
version of the concerto which was issued
by BIS back-to-back with the final edition.
The tone poems are present and correct
including a substantial and out of the
ordinary one: The Wood Nymph.
You will not get the various original
versions issued in occasional anthologies
as part of the Bis Complete Sibelius
Edition. There's a selection of the
best incidental music; it's a pity they
could not have squeezed in some movements
from Belshazzar's Feast. We also
get some of the choral music (male,
female and mixed) with and without orchestra.
Disc 11 carries thirty songs nicely
grouped and alternated and variously
for solo voice and piano and for voice
and orchestra. Two string quartets are
there: the famous Voces Intimae and
the very early A minor work. We also
have the 1887 Piano Trio and the 1890
Piano Quintet (both completely new to
me). Disc 14 has various works for violin
(or cello) with piano and these include
his earliest surviving piece Water
Drops for cello and piano (1875).
Tucked in on CD 14 you will hear a big
Violin Sonata from 1889 and a Sonatina
from 1915. Lastly Folke Gräsbeck
and Erik Tawaststjerna play a trencherman's
slice of the solo piano music including
the sonatinas (1912) and Kyllikki
(1904) beloved of Glenn Gould.
Another thing - when
I first glanced at this edition I thought
this would be a simple repackaging of
existing CDs lifted off the shelf and
maybe relabelled. No such thing. Only
CDs 1, 2, 4 and 6 are as originally
issued. Everything else has been thoughtfully
re-coupled and re-assembled. Amongst
the 19+ hours of music we find world
première recordings of The
Watersprite (Näcken),
a brief 'melodrama' for mezzo, narrator
and piano trio. A good ninety minutes
of this set comprises recent and previously
unreleased recordings. They are: Tulen
Synty, Voces Intimae, Sortunut
ääni, Venematka,
Sydämeni laulu, Till
havs, Fridolins dårskap,
Jone havsfärd, Jääkärien
marssi, Näcken, Voces
Intimae, the Piano Quintet, Vattendroppar.
Every CD is fully loaded - or close. The notes
are in a 132 page booklet. This sits with the discs inside the
wallet-style case which is about 1.25" thick. Each CD is in a
plain paper sleeve with contents and disc number visible through a
transparent window in the sleeve. The booklet has an introduction
by Robert von Bahr, a full contents list (minus discographical
details such as date and location of recording sessions) over 14
pages. An extended essay by Andrew Barnett; this runs to 13 pages
with translations into Finnish, French, German and (I think)
Japanese. Any sung or spoken words are printed in full with
translation into English - and BIS take the trouble to
mark each of the text pages with a 'dog
ear' pointing you to the relevant disc
number for that work. There are a smattering
of good photographs of the composer
and the artists.
The Lahti Sibelius
symphony
cycle is healthy and extremely well
recorded. The sense of front-to-back
perspective and of quiet details in
the foreground registering despite fff
activity above is remarkable and a tribute to the BIS team.
The First Symphony bristles with detail and
Vänskä drives it along with petulant aggression. He does not have
the tone-dazzle of Barbirolli-EMI version - which remains a
favourite - but the colour achieved
is natural, less saturated than the
EMI. The Fourth is played as an intimate
concerto for orchestra bringing out,
more than many, roots in works such
as Rakastava and the lighter
world. It is a finessed interpretation:
the flute, viola and cello voices eloquently
beckon. The Second Symphony has had
many incandescent performances: Barbirolli
on Chesky (white hot), Beecham in concert
at the RFH and the unsubtle but visceral
approach from Rozhdestvensky and the
USSRSO (now issued in a not widely circulated
Venetia set). The Third and Sixth are
works close to my heart. The Third here
has Mozartian intimacy as well as a
bristling urgency. This tautness and
perfection of balance is clearly prized
by Vänskä making this one
of the strongest recordings in the set.
Highly recommended; as is the luminous
Sixth in which buoyant poise and delight
in instrumental dialogue carry the day.
With the Seventh I doubted whether the
conductor had found the aural equivalent
of the mot juste. Until I got to 5.01 when Vänskä's
strategy is revealed with its perfectly paced swell and rise I had
my doubts. My reference remains the Melodiya Mravinsky Leningrad
Phil recording and the mid-1960s reading from Ormandy on CBS but
this BIS version
is high in the stakes. The BIS Tapiola
is also another miracle of balance
and spontaneity. Vänskä knows
his way to the elusive realm between
gestural defiance and grateful descant.
His emphatic way with the culminating
hammer-blows at the end of the Fifth
is just one example of a man who has
rethought and reinvented the symphonies
finding a way back through layers of
convention.
After the Fifth Symphony
En Saga is mysterious and tense
just as it should be but not superior
to the Horst Stein (Decca) or the famous
Furtwängler (M&A) versions.
Pohjola's Daughter, surely one
of the most miraculously imaginative
pieces of music, has its beguilingly
feminine qualities fully brought out.
The fantasy dimension is not so vividly
coloured in as it is by Stein. BIS's again confirms its
reputation for full range recording with a mere breathed whisper
contrasted with great gusts of sound - the entire ambit. The gruffly
authoritative and mordant Finlandia
is further corroboration and is among
the best of versions. In a set claiming
to be 'The Essential' Sibelius Valse
Triste has to be there and so it
is and safely in the hands of Vänskä
and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. The
little known The Wood Nymph is
not the waif-like impressionistic piece
you might anticipate from the title.
It was after all written in 1895 and
bears something of a resemblance to
the tone poems of Kajanus and to the
spirit but not the style of the Eben-based
Dvořák
tone poems. It's a fascinating choice
and across its twenty-plus minutes is
full of surprises and echoes of En
Saga (especially), Karelia
and the Lemminkainen Legends which
it precedes on disc 7. Do not expect
the equivalent of The Bard. This
is early and ripely romantic Sibelius
with infusions from Wagner and Liszt.
I think you'll love it. It includes
some truly regal writing. So far as
the Lemminkainen Legends are
concerned this has been lifted from
BIS
CD1015 but shorn of the 1896 versions
of the Maidens of the Island and
Homeward Journey. The recording is splendid and
full-blooded - especially
strong in the bass. Disc 8 takes us
back to the orchestra and conductor
who the Bis series in motion: Neeme
Järvi and the Gothenberg Symphony
Orchestra. The Karelia Suite's Intermezzo is given a
powerful engine room ostinato pulse - a sensationally
exciting violin swirling whirlwind build-up
but the famous theme seems stiltedly
deliberate to these ears. We will return
to Järvi and his Swedish colleagues
for the theatre music suites on Disc
9. Tulen Synty may be earlyish
but it was revised in 1910 and has all
the finish of fully mature Sibelius
operating with a text which completely
entangled his imagination. The excellent
Dominante Choir contribute The Captive
Queen staunchly and with unstoppable
unanimity and tenderness.
Vanska's Kullervo
is carefully calculated from its low
key casually relaxed opening through
the careful building of tension and
the weighing of parts and speed. He
conveys a whiplash quality to the chasing
figuration at 2:37 in I. An epic fatigue
saturates the second movement. This
slow motion approach pays off with those
little descending violin sighs at 1.23
onwards and at the same time hitherto
unmade linkages with Valse Triste
are suggested. In III Vänskä
and the Lahti orchestra actively bristle
and bustle with energy. Like the latest
Colin Davis with the LSO this is amongst
the longest of Kullervos. The
choir on their entry at 1.47 in III
is confiding rather than oratorical.
It is a feature of this issue that the
choir are held firmly in check rather
than let loose as they are in the glorious
Berglund I. Yet the choir are wonderful
in the final tragic landscape with singing
of great subtlety in a believable but
not sensational acoustic. The woodwind
have an eminence and eloquence missing
from other versions including my reference
versions which are Berglund I, Colin
Davis II (LSO Live) and Spano (Telarc).
The eldritch moonlit landscape and the
tragedy of Kullervo's actions are superbly
conveyed in the finale.
Sibelius's only concerto
is done enchantingly in a way that suggests
Kavakos was also born to record the
Prokofiev First Concerto. Again the
balance is natural without sensationalising
the soloist. This is not the aural relationship
demanded by Heifetz or accorded to the
rapturous Oistrakh with Rozhdestvensky.
On the other hand the rasping brass
barks in the first movement reach out
and shake the listener - a characteristic
of the balance throughout. Kavakos's
tone is steady and not at all tremulous.
With Vänskä he conveys the
grandeur of this work with a clean tone
that recalls that of Mullova and Sitkovetsky
rather than the vibrato heavy Ricci
and Sarbu.
BIS chose well when
they selected the cello versions only
just released on Laetare
Anima Mea and Ab imo pectare
(first encountered in a Koch collection recorded by Ralph
Holmes - does anyone
out there have a copy? Ed.) even if
they do bring out the Bruch side of
Sibelius's muse. The two Serenades
'sung' by the more rapturously Oistrakh-like
Kang are sentimental and are recorded
with rich immediacy. The Six Humoresques
also arrive courtesy of Kang. These
are magical bonbons - each weighted
and balanced to perfection even though
I favour the rawer vintage set glowingly
recorded by Rosand and still available
on Vox.
True Sibelians must not miss these works
and Kang and his orchestra do catch
these silvery spells and confident little
drinking songs - pride and eloquence,
seduction and midnight poetry haunt
these pages and it's all one especially
well.
Rakastava is
there too in its version for strings,
timpani and triangle as you would expect
from an Essential Sibelius Collection.
Too often in the entry level classical
market something claiming to be The
Essential this or that is just a
slightly superior excuse for gathering
the most popular or favourite pieces.
Valse Triste, The Swan of
Tuonela, Rakastava and Finlandia
all fit that category although both
The Swan and Rakastava are sensitive and subtle pastels.
They are here alongside more considered essential works. Across
fifteen CDs the substantial output of a major composer can be more
satisfactorily addressed leaving room for most listeners including
this one to make discoveries - mine included The Water Nymph,
the Finnish Jäger March and
much of the early chamber music. By
the way, on disc 10 you can hear the
mixed choral version of Rakastava
- The Lover (tr. 8). Most of these
are from the hectically productive 1890s.
But event the later short choral items
from the 1900s and 1910s cater to the
appetite for unison songs that are stern
or honeyed and which depend for their
effect on a sustained muscular tone.
Fascinatingly the March
of the Finnish Jäger Battalion
from 1917-1918 with its romping
and crashing military band accompaniment
has the upbeat oompah quick-march zest
of a confident Soviet anthem.
The disc plays out
with the two minute Finlandia Hymn
written in 1899-1900 and arranged
in 1948. It's sung and recorded with
ringing passion to set the rafters resonating.
The theatre music is
represented by Järvi's three suites.
For all that there may have been criticisms
of his cycle of the symphonies the recordings
of the theatre suites are well worth
experiencing for their watercolour fancy,
surging ardour, finely etched melancholy,
Ruritanian romance and dark drama as
in The Ballad of King Christian
II. Just occasionally the mix goes
flat as in the earthbound Musette
of King Christian II but
in general this is very enjoyable. There
are eight sections from the Pelléas
et Mélisande music including
the famous Sky at Night movement
- At the Castle Gate. Equally
a favourite is the chirpy Entr'acte.
By A Spring in the Park looks
over its shoulder at Tchaikovsky's symphonic
ballet waltzes. He is even stronger
in the strikingly original music for
The Tempest from which we get
eleven movements. This sequence culminates
in The Storm which in its exclamatory
turbulence is prefigured by the even
more volcanic Intrada (tr. 18).
The Berceuse applies the balm.
Disc 10 mixes choral
alone (mostly male) with choral with
orchestra and three orchestral tone
poems. It starts with an oddity - the
heroic Snöfrid - a Swedish
language melodrama for orator, chorus
and orchestra. The minimalistic The
Bard proceeds at a slow heartbeat
of a pulse - allowing eternity for the
harper-skald's tale to be told - a tale
without overt dramatics. Contrast this
with the marine chiming of The
Oceanides with its cross-currents
from warm theatrical music meeting the
chill life-giving draughts of the Fourth
Symphony and The Bard. Then,
as if from another planet or a distant
primeval time, comes the wondrous Luonnotar,
a masterpiece central to any Sibelius
collection. I am not clear why Bis felt
it necessary to duplicate the MariAnne
Häggander recording with Jorma
Panula in the early 1980s but Juntunen
is excellent with a steady and responsively
potent voice. Hers is youthful and pliant
where Bryn-Julson
for Bernstein and Gwyneth
Jones for Dorati were heavily operatic.
I continue to rate very highly the Berglund-Bournemouth
version where Taru Valjakka was pretty
much ideal and remains so though the
EMI recording is now more than a quarter
century old. Three male voice choruses
from the 1890s typical of the rumbustious
powers of the male student university
choir conclude the disc.
Sibelius wrote many
songs as we know from the fine four
CD Decca
Krause/Söderström set.
There are thirty on disc 11. Von Otter
shows the range of mood is well within
her fach, from the forthright Svarta
Rosor to the gentle raindrop insistence
of Säv, säv, susa to
the bleak melancholy of Im Feld ein
Mädchen singt to the Gothic
romping of Aus Banger Brust to
the starry spell and glisten of Die
Stille Stadt. The richer palette
of the orchestra adds to the four songs
allocated to MariAnne Häggander.
She is at her clarion strongest in the
operatic Höstkvall (Autumn
Evening).
Näcken is
for mezzo, narrator, violin, cello and
piano. This very brief piece takes on
the character of a soirée special.
Monica Groop is the mezzo in the song
Näcken (distinct from the
last-mentioned piece). She can also
be heard in seven songs with piano -
this time with pianist Love Derwinger
rather than Bengt Forsberg who is Von
Otter's accompanist of choice. Näcken
- the song - is strange with its
watery trills and evocations of great
cold depths. It is accorded a virtuoso
interpretation. The Echo Nymph is
another classic Scandinavian song with
its chiming lyrical line. I systrar/Bröder/Alskäne
Pär is shaped around the lilt
of the waltz.
Four songs feature
Jorma Hynninen's baritone with orchestra
and include the noble Demanten på
marssnön and the magically
shimmering and swinging Song of the
Cross Spider. On a Balcony by
the Sea is defiantly operatic making
you wonder why his only completed opera
The Maiden in the Tower (also
recorded by BIS) is so lacking in spark.
The last seven songs are allocated to
Von Otter. The most turbulently emotional
is the wonderfully dramatic The Tryst
(Flickan kom ifrån sin
älsklings möte). Groop
and Von Otter finally sing together
and are joined by Forsberg for the very
brief The Thought.
Chamber music, especially
from Sibelius's early years, is numerous.
A practical man, he produced in genres
that were more likely to command performance.
Typically this took place in his cultured
home surrounded by friends and family
many of whom were accomplished musicians.
The Sibelius style had yet to take form
in the 1870s and 1880s. As if to furnish
proof we hear as much in the isolated
Moderato movement from 1889.
There's certainly Schubertian fluency
and eloquence with the glint of one
or two disorientating currents from
the true Sibelius. The A minor quartet
is a substantial four movement work
running close to 35 minutes. Already
elements of distinctive personality
float free from
a predominantly haunting and serene
Dvořákian texture. The writing
is especially graceful and warm at the
start of the Allegro (III) - recognisably
Sibelian. This quartet would be an apt
companion in a concert including some
Mozart or Schumann on a programme
also spiced with Weigl or Korngold.
The Voces Intimae Quartet from
1909 has to be here. It was for many
years Sibelius's only chamber work representation
in the living performing repertoire
and one that many will recall from the
Nonesuch LP of the recording by the
Claremont Quartet. It is a fully mature
work and bustles in a totally characteristic
way in the virtuosic Vivace.
The final Allegro is redolent
of Grieg's Autumn and the music
of Goldmark but in its haltingly enigmatic
way far outstripping both composers.
The Tempera Quartet give the music a
warm and engaging outing and they are
recorded with coaxing immediacy. There
are other Sibelius string quartets including
the E flat major (1885) and the B flat
major (1890) and you can hear them all
on a Finlandia-Warner
double.
The Korpo
Trio is on CD13. It is about the
same length as the A minor quartet which
it predates by a couple of years. To
my ears it engagingly blends the voices
of Grieg and Mozart. The hymnal aspect
of the composer's inspiration known
from Andante Festivo can be glimpsed
at the start of the Fantasia second
movement together with a mystical Schubertian
hush. It is a shade
more conventional than the A minor quartet
but pleasing in a smilingly bucolic
Dvořákian way.
The Piano Quintet in
G minor follows after a sensible and
sensitive long pause from the final
gesture of the Trio. That space for
silence is another mark of thoughtful
distinction from Bis. The Quintet is
from 1890 and accordingly much can be
expected from it; much is delivered.
There are leonine Brahmsian climactics
in the surging first movement even if
this exaltation is not sustained in
the Intermezzo - perhaps that's
the point of an intermezzo. However
it does break the continuity with the
more serious browed Andante.
The same happens again with a country
charming Dvořákian
scherzo. The Moderato is
again more grave and original, with
tripping little piano figures providing
a fragmented ostinato. The pattern of
this work with its two relaxing asides
suggests a composer keen to allow his
listeners a chance to be soothed and
gather their emotions between the serious
movements. Two movements (Intermezzo
and Scherzo) of the five
provides this relaxation. The finale
ends most originally with a surging
piano part of Lisztian brilliance and
complemented with gruffly rolling Beethovenian
waves to end the proceedings.
The final piece on
CD 13 is the Pompeuse March d'Asise
from 1891 for violin, cello and
piano. Here the decorative and rhetorical
content recalls Saint-Saëns in
his lighter moments.
CD14 includes various
short pieces spanning the period 1875-1925.
They range from the very first and tentative
Waterdrops for cello and piano.
This manages to be both conspiratorially
Mussorgskian and innocent.
When I read Harold
Johnson's study of Sibelius in 1972
as a student I recall being intrigued
by the number of early pieces listed
in the catalogue involving harmonium.
We hear this homely instrument with
piano in the 1887 Andante Cantabile
recalling the domestic environs
in which many of these chamber pieces
of the 1880s were played. There's probably
room for a CD of all Sibelius's music
for or involving harmonium.
The F minor Violin
Sonata of 1889 is a most accomplished
and completely style-resolved work although
it does contain a few presentiments
of the mature Sibelius. This is more
the Grieg of the piano concerto and
sometimes lighter yet in emotional tension.
The violinist is Jaakko Kuusisto who
has already tackled the Serenades for
violin and orchestra for Warner-Finlandia.
Malinconia for
cello here taken by Torlief Thedéen
was assigned an opus number and dates
from 1900. The main theme and treatment
across the 12 minute 'konzertstück'
prefigures the Violin Concerto.
Nils-Erik Sparf takes
the violin and joins Forsberg for the
remainder of the disc. The Four Pieces
for violin and piano (1915-17) are
salon morsels: a jaunty Impromptu, a
serenade-style Romance like a
slightly sentimental Kreislerian version
of the two orchestral Serenades,
a reverent Religioso doffing
the hat to Bruch and a busy little Rigaudon
with a Hungarian accent.
From 1915 comes the
E major Sonatina op. 80 which slowly
and thoughtfully stalks through an Introduction
into a cheery and chattery little 'cantique'
before a moonlit Andantino and
a silvery line for the violin and a
finale that proceeds from a soulful
viola-accented Bruch-like prelude to
an ebullient Allegretto which
shares the scintillation of the Humoresques
without their finer silvery qualities.
From 1925 come two Danses Champêtres
the first of which again recalls
the Humoresques. The final Alla
polacca is enlivened by spiccato
and other Paganinian display and cantabile.
Hearing the sepulchral
yet radiant Andante Festivo reminds
me of another highlight of 2006, Christopher
Nupen's two Sibelius documentaries.
Extensive use is made here of Andante
Festivo (with its soulful aspirant
descant to the Finlandia hymn)
and we also hear Sibelius first surviving
work the Vattendroppar (Water-drops)
for cello and piano - the latter starts
CD14.
The final disc is packed
with 24 piano pieces some of which include
the four movement Florestan suite,
the three movement works Sonata in F
major op. 12 1893, and the three sonatinas
from 1912 as well as the three Kyllikki
pieces from 1904. The Florestan
group (1889) and the B minor Impromptu
and the Sonata, both from 1889, are
played by Folke Gräsbeck. Unsurprisingly
the Florestan is rather Schumann-like
and salon-flighty. There is a delicious
pearl glitter about the Impromptu which
is decorative in its finery. The Sonata
has a Russian nationalist accent - Balakirev
or even early Rachmaninov.
The rest of the disc
is taken by that other pianist-scholar
Erik Tawaststjerna. This is the part
of the disc that includes analogue original
tapes from the 1970s. The Romance,
1901, with the Kalevala-derived
Kyllikki are both thinnish gruel
by comparison with the three sonatinas
op. 67 the latter from 1912. These sonatinas
are intermittently rather Debussian
and are most beautifully recorded as
listening. The Largo of the first of
them attests fully to their quality.
None of the three are longer than eight
minutes. They are pleasing unassuming
miniatures. The Andantino of
the second is a more serious effort
and is in an idiom that recalls Grieg.
The last four are genre
pieces: a reverent hymnal The Solitary
Fir Tree from 1914, The Spruce
(also from op. 75 - clearly a silvicultural
suite) in its sentimental fragility
perhaps recalls a tryst under the tree,
the Scène Romantique has
regretful references to the gravely
sorrowing theme from Andante Festivo
and the final Schumann-like Village
Church si from the same time as
the Scène - 1923/4 - in
content seems completely at odds with
its title.
When you are confronted with something from BIS
called The Essential Sibelius you are entitled to become
thoughtful. For most companies the title would announce a one or
two CD item with what amounts to The Best of - short pieces,
single movements, beloved moments .... nothing to tax the
attention span. BIS is not that kind of company. Their founder
Robert von Bahr so loved and loves Sibelius that he planned to
record every note he ever wrote. That was in 1973 before he met
the Sibelius authority Andrew Barnett and doyens Folke Gräsbeck,
Erik Tawaststjerna and Fabian Dahlström. Since then and surviving
the Scylla and Charybdis of analogue to digital and LP to CD von
Bahr has won and held the respect and support of the Sibelius
family. Recordings of unheard Sibelius and of first and second
versions have appeared and educated, delighted and intrigued in
equal measure. We are now at the stage where the BIS Complete
Sibelius Edition is just around the corner. Imagine the box in
which that will be issued! This 15 CD set is a taster containing
what BIS consider
the Essential Sibelius. Of course part
of the price you pay for this bargain
level set is the cut-down notes. The
originals with the individual CDs were
far fuller. Still the price of this
set is remarkable. I did a quick internet
search and found it for 69.78$US at
our partner site ArkivMusic, 70$US,
£60 at Woolworths, £55 at Amazon UK
and MDT offer it at £46 plus postage
and if you boost your MDT order to above
£50 the postage is free.
With one strange omission
this set justifies its claim to offer
The Essential Sibelius. It will
provide hours of pleasure, discovery
and rediscovery for not very much money.
If this were your only Sibelius you
would have his best music. Alongside
this you will become acquainted with
some pieces which although not the very
best are representative and contribute
to a fuller and balanced understanding
of this great twentieth century composer.
Rob Barnett
The Essential SIBELIUS - Table of contents
Disc 1:
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
Symphony No.4 in A minor, Op.63
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Disc 2:
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43
Symphony No.3 in C major, Op.52
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Disc 3:
Symphony No.5 in E flat major, Op.82
En saga, Op.9
Pohjola's Daughter, Op.49
Valse triste, Op.44 No.1
Finlandia, Op.26
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Disc 4:
Symphony No.6 (in D minor), Op.104
Symphony No.7 in C major, Op.105
Tapiola, Op.112
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Disc 5:
Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra,
Op.47
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Two Serious Melodies for cello and orchestra,
Op.77
Marko Ylönen, cello
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Two Serenades for violin and orchestra,
Op.69
Six Humoresques for violin and orchestra,
Opp. 87, 89
Dong-Suk Kang, violin
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Neeme
Järvi
Disc 6:
Kullervo, Op.7
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo); Raimo Laukka
(baritone)
Helsinki University Chorus
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Disc 7:
The Wood-Nymph, Op.15
Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Disc 8:
Karelia Suite, Op.11
Scènes historiques, Set I, Op.25
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Neeme
Järvi
Athenarnes sång (Song of the Athenians),
Op.31 No.3
Lahti Boys' Choir - Helsinki University
Chorus
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Tulen synty (The Origin of Fire), Op.32
Tommi Hakala, baritone - Helsinki University
Chorus
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Vapautettu kuningatar (The Captive Queen),
Op.48
Dominante Choir
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Rakastava for strings, timpani and triangle,
Op.14
Andante festivo, JS34b
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Disc 9:
Kung Kristian II (King Christian II),
Op.27 (suite)
Pelléas et Mélisande,
Op.46 (suite)
The Tempest, Op.109 (extracts)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Neeme
Järvi
Disc 10:
Snöfrid, Op.29
Stina Ekblad, narrator
Jubilate Choir
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
The Bard, Op.64
The Oceanides, Op.73
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Luonnotar, Op.70
Helena Juntunen, soprano
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Sortunut ääni (The Broken
Voice), Op.18 No.1
Venematka (The Boat Journey), Op.18
No.3
Sydämeni laulu (Song of my Heart),
Op.18 No.6
Helsinki University Chorus - Matti Hyökki
Rakastava (The Lover), JS160a (Op.14)
Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano - Sauli
Tiilikainen, baritone
ubilate Choir - Astrid Riska
Isänmaalle (To the Fatherland),
JS98a
Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island),
Op.18 No.4
Soi kiitokseksi Luojan (We Praise Thee,
Our Creator), Op.23 No.6a
Män från slätten och
havet (Men from Land and Sea), Op.65a
Jubilate Choir - Astrid Riska
Till havs (At Sea), Op.84 No.5
Fridolins dårskap (Fridolin's
Folly), JS84
Jone havsfärd (Jonah's Voyage),
JS100
Orphei Drängar - Robert Sund
Jääkärien marssi, Op.91a
(March of the Finnish Jäger Battalion)
Helsinki University Chorus
Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
Finlandia-Hymni (Finlandia Hymn), Op.26
Jubilate Choir - Astrid Riska
Disc 11:
Svarta rosor (Black Roses), Op.36 No.1
Men min fågel märks dock
icke (But my Bird is Long in Homing),
Op.36 No.2
Säv, säv, susa (Sigh, Sigh,
Sedges), Op.36 No.4
Illalle (To Evening), Op.17 No.6
Im Feld ein Mädchen singt (A Maiden
Yonder Sings), Op.50 No.3
Aus banger Brust (O, Wert Thou Here),
Op.50 No.4
Die stille Stadt (The Silent Town),
Op.50 No.5
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano - Bengt Forsberg, piano
Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring
is Flying), Op.13 No.4
Se'n har jag ej frågat mera (Since
Then I Have Questioned No Further),
Op.17 No.1
Höstkväll (Autumn Evening),
Op.38 No.1
Arioso, Op.3 (1911)
MariAnne Häggander, soprano
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jorma
Panula
Näcken (The Watersprite), song/melodrama,
JS138
Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano - Lasse
Pöysti, narrator
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin - Joel Laakso, cello - Folke Gräsbeck, piano
Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt
(Give Me No Splendour), Op.1 No.4
Jag är ett träd (The Tree),
Op.57 No.5
Näcken (The Watersprite), Op.57
No.8
Hymn to Thaïs, JS97
Kaiutar (The Echo Nymph), Op.72 No.4
Längtan heter min arvedel (Longing
is my Heritage), Op.86 No.2
I systrar, I bröder, I älskande
par (Ye Sisters, Ye Brothers), Op.86
No.6
Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano - Love Derwinger,
piano
Demanten på marssnön (The
Diamond on the March Snow), Op.36 No.6
Sången om korsspindeln (The Song
of the Cross Spider), Op.27 No.4
På verandan vid havet (On a Balcony
by the Sea), Op.38 No.2
Kom nu hit, död (Come Away, Death),
Op.60 No.1
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jorma
Panula
Souda, souda, sinisorsa (Swim, Duck,
Swim), JS180
Norden (The North), Op.90 No.1
Narciss (Narcissus), JS140
Den första kyssen (The First Kiss),
Op.37 No.1
Var det en dröm? (Was it a Dream?),
Op.37 No.4
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings
möte (The Tryst) , Op.37 No.5
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano - Bengt Forsberg, piano
Tanken (The Thought), JS192
Anne Sofie von Otter and Monica Groop,
mezzo-sopranos
Bengt Forsberg, piano
Disc12:
Moderato - Allegro appassionato in C
sharp minor JS131
String Quartet in A minor, JS183
String Quartet in D minor 'Voces intimae',
Op.56
Tempera Quartet
(Laura Vikman, violin I - Silva Koskela,
violin II
Tiila Kangas, viola - Ulla Lampela,
cello)
Disc 13:
Piano Trio in D major, 'Korpo', JS209
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin - Marko Ylönen, cello - Folke Gräsbeck, piano
Piano Quintet in G minor, JS159
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin I - Laura Vikman,
violin II
Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic, viola - Joel
Laakso, cello
Folke Gräsbeck, piano
La pompeuse Marche d'Asis, JS116
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin - Marko Ylönen, cello - Folke Gräsbeck, piano
Disc 14:
Vattendroppar (Water Drops), JS216
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin - Taneli Turunen,
cello
Andante cantabile in E flat major, JS30b
Folke Gräsbeck, piano - Harri Viitanen,
harmonium
Andante cantabile in G major, JS33
Sonata in F major, JS178 (1889)
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin - Folke Gräsbeck,
piano
Malinconia, Op.20 (1900)
Torleif Thedéen, cello - Folke
Gräsbeck, piano
Four Pieces, Op.78 for violin and piano
Sonatina in E major, Op.80
Two Danses Champêtres from Op.106
Nils-Erik Sparf violin - Bengt Forsberg
piano
Disc 15:
Florestan, JS82
Impromptu in B minor, Op.5 No.5
Sonata in F major, Op.12
Folke Gräsbeck, piano
Romance in D flat major, Op.24 No.9
Kyllikki, three lyric pieces, Op.41
Sonatina in F sharp minor, Op.67 No.1
Sonatina in E major, Op.67 No.2
Sonatina in B minor, Op.67 No.3
Den ensamma furan (The Solitary Fir
Tree), Op.75 No.2
Granen (The Spruce), Op.75 No.5
Scène romantique, Op.101 No.5
The Village Church, Op.103 No.1
Erik T. Tawaststjerna, piano
DETAILED TRACK LISTING
Jean Sibelius
CD 1:
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
1. I. Andante, ma non troppo - Allegro
energico 9'42
2. II. Andante (ma non troppo lento)
8'54
3. III. Scherzo. Allegro 4'30
4. IV. Finale (Quasi una Fantasia).
Andante - Allegro molto 11'46
Symphony No.4 in A minor, Op.63
5. I. Tempo molto moderato, quasi adagio
11'36
6. II. Allegro molto vivace 4'29
7. III. Il tempo largo 14'04
8. IV. Allegro 9'04
CD 2:
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43
1. I. Allegretto 9'14
2. II. Tempo Andante, ma rubato 14'25
3. III. Vivacissimo - attacca - 5'57
4. IV. Finale. Allegro moderato 14'55
Symphony No.3 in C major, Op.52
5. I. Allegro moderato 10'15
6. II. Andantino con moto, quasi allegretto
11'12
7. III. Moderato - Allegro (ma non tanto)
8'51
CD 3:
Symphony No.5 in E flat major, Op.82
1. I. Tempo molto moderato - Allegro
moderato 13'23
2. II. Andante mosso, quasi allegretto
8'45
3. III. Allegro molto - Largamente assai
9'05
4. En saga, Op.9 18'03
5. Pohjola's Daughter, Op.49 13'10
6. Valse triste, Op.44 No.1 4'42
7. Finlandia, Op.26 8'28
CD 4:
Symphony No.6 (in D minor), Op.104
1. I. Allegro molto moderato 8'28
2. II. Allegretto moderato 6'29
3. III. Poco vivace 3'23
4. IV. Allegro molto 8'19
5. Symphony No.7 in C major, Op.105
22'44
6. Tapiola, Op.112 17'22
CD 5:
Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra,
Op.47
1. I. Allegro moderato 16'47
2. II. Adagio di molto 10'02
3. III. Allegro, ma non tanto 7'40
Two Serious Melodies for cello and orchestra,
Op.77
4. I. Cantique (Lætare anima mea)
5'09
5. II. Devotion (Ab imo pectore) 3'23
Two Serenades for violin and orchestra,
Op.69
6. No.1 in D major 6'16
7. No.2 in G minor 6'51
Six Humoresques for violin and orchestra
8. No.1 in D minor, Op.87 No.1 3'25
9. No.2 in D major, Op.87 No.2 2'15
10. No.3 in G minor, Op.89a 4'08
11. No.4 in G minor, Op.89b 4'00
12. No.5 in E flat major, Op.89c 3'05
13. No.6 in G minor, Op.89d 3'01
CD 6:
Kullervo, Op.7
1. I. Introduction 12'50
2. II. Kullervo's Youth 19'18
3. III. Kullervo and his Sister 25'27
4. IV. Kullervo Goes to War 10'04
5. V. Kullervo's Death 12'22
CD 7:
1. The Wood-Nymph, Op.15 21'36
Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22
2. I. Lemminkäinen and the Maidens
of the Island 15'12
3. II. The Swan of Tuonela 9'27
4. III. Lemminkäinen in Tuonela
17'41
5. IV. Lemminkäinen's Return 6'27
CD 8:
Karelia Suite, Op.11
1. I. Intermezzo 4'39
2. II. Ballade 7'27
3. III. Alla Marcia 4'51
Scènes historiques, Set I, Op.25
4. I. All' Overtura 4'37
5. II. Scena 6'11
6. III. Festivo 7'07
7. Athenarnes sång (Song of the
Athenians), Op.31 No.3 3'31
8. Tulen synty (The Origin of Fire),
Op.32 9'03
9. Vapautettu kuningatar (The Captive
Queen), Op.48 9'16
Rakastava for strings, timpani and triangle,
Op.14
10. I. The Lover 4'06
11. II. The Path of His Beloved 2'26
12. III. Good Evening!... Farewell!
5'34
13. Andante festivo, JS34b 5'10
CD 9:
Kung Kristian II (King Christian II),
Op.27 (suite)
1. I. Nocturne 7'40
2. II. Elegy 5'23
3. III. Musette 2'12
4. IV. Serenade 4'43
5. V. Ballad 5'14
Pelléas et Mélisande,
Op.46 (suite)
6. I. At the Castle Gate 3'49
7. II. Mélisande 4'15
8. IIa. At the Seashore 1'48
9. III. By a Spring in the Park 2'23
10. IV. The Three Blind Sisters 2'29
11. V. Pastorale 2'01
12. VI. Mélisande at the Spinning
Wheel 2'14
13. VII. Entr'acte 2'49
14. VIII. The Death of Mélisande
6'04
The Tempest, Op.109 (extracts)
15. The Oak Tree 2'25
16. Humoresque 1'00
17. Caliban's Song 1'09
18. Intrada - Berceuse 2'06
19. Entr'acte - Ariel's Song 3'14
20. Chorus of the Winds 3'14
21. Intermezzo 1'39
22. Dance of the Nymphs 1'49
23. Prospero 1'50
24. Miranda 2'03
25. The Storm 3'13
CD 10:
1. Snöfrid for recitation, mixed
chorus and orchestra, Op.29 14'15
2. The Bard, Op.64 7'32
3. The Oceanides, Op.73 10'03
4. Luonnotar for soprano and orchestra,
Op.70 8'50
5. Sortunut ääni (The Broken
Voice), Op.18 No.1 1'20
6. Venematka (The Boat Journey), Op.18
No.3 1'34
7. Sydämeni laulu (Song of my Heart),
Op.18 No.6 2'12
8. Rakastava (The Lover), JS160a (Op.14)
6'54
9. Isänmaalle (To the Fatherland),
JS98a 2'19
10. Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island),
Op.18 No.4 1'12
11. Soi kiitokseksi Luojan, Op.23 No.6a
(We Praise Thee, Our Creator) 1'31
12. Män från slätten
och havet, Op.65a (Men from Land and
Sea) 4'40
13. Till havs (At Sea), Op.84 No.5 2'24
14. Fridolins dårskap (Fridolin's
Folly), JS84 2'27
15. Jone havsfärd (Jonah's Voyage),
JS100 2'29
16. Jääkärien marssi,
Op.91a (March of the Finnish Jäger
Battalion) 2'23
17. Finlandia-Hymni (Finlandia Hymn),
Op.26 2'04
CD 11:
1. Svarta rosor (Black Roses), Op.36
No.1 1'56
2. Men min fågel märks dock
icke, Op.36 No.2 (But my Bird is Long
in Homing) 2'23
3. Säv, säv, susa (Sigh, Sigh,
Sedges), Op.36 No.4 2'33
4. Illalle (To Evening), Op.17 No.6
(1898) 1'15
5. Im Feld ein Mädchen singt, Op.50
No.3 (A Maiden Yonder Sings) 3'00
6. Aus banger Brust (O, Wert Thou Here),
Op.50 No.4 2'17
7. Die stille Stadt (The Silent Town),
Op.50 No.5 2'39
8. Våren flyktar hastigt, Op.13
No.4 (Spring is Flying) 1'30
9. Se'n har jag ej frågat mera,
Op.17 No.1 (Since Then I Have Questioned
No Further) 1'53
10. Höstkväll (Autumn Evening),
Op.38 No.1 4'29
11. Arioso, Op.3 3'48
12. Näcken (The Watersprite), song/melodrama,
JS138 3'19
13. Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt,
Op.1 No.4 (Give Me No Splendour, Gold
or Pomp) 3'43
14. Jag är ett träd (The Tree),
Op.57 No.5 2'46
15. Näcken (The Watersprite), Op.57
No.8 3'10
16. Hymn to Thaïs, JS97 3'11
Kaiutar (The Echo Nymph), Op.72 No.4kande
par, Op.86 No.6 (Ye Sisters, Ye Brothers)
17. Kaiutar (The Echo Nymph), Op.72
No.4 3'10
18. Längtan heter min arvedel,
Op.86 No.2 (Longing is my Heritage)
3'11
19. I systrar, I bröder, I älskande
par, Op.86 No.6 (Ye Sisters, Ye Brothers)
2'01
20. Demanten på marssnön,
Op.36 No.6 (The Diamond on the March
Snow) 2'58
21. Sången om korsspindeln, Op.27
No.4 (The Song of the Cross Spider)
3'31
22. På verandan vid havet, Op.38
No.2 (On a Balcony by the Sea) 3'06
23. Kom nu hit, död, Op.60 No.1
(Come Away, Death) 3'31
24. Souda, souda, sinisorsa (Swim, Duck,
Swim), JS180 1'10
25. Norden (The North), Op.90 No.1 2'04
26. Narciss (Narcissus), JS140 1'45
27. Den första kyssen (The First
Kiss), Op.37 No.1 1'52
28. Var det en dröm? (Was it a
Dream?), Op.37 No.4 1'58
29. Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings
möte, Op.37 No.5 (The Tryst) 2'50
30. Tanken (The Thought), JS192 1'29
CD 12:
1. Moderato - Allegro appassionato in
C sharp minor JS131 10'33
String Quartet in A minor, JS183
2. I. Andante - Allegro 11'06
3. II. Adagio ma non tanto 8'33
4. III. Vivace 5'43
5. IV. Allegro 8'40
String Quartet in D minor 'Voces intimae',
Op.56
6. I. Andante - Allegro molto moderato
5'53
7. II. Vivace 2'18
8. III. Adagio di molto 10'51
9. IV. Allegretto (ma pesante) 5'34
10. V. Allegro 4'57
CD 13:
Piano Trio in D major, 'Korpo', JS209
1. I. Allegro moderato 10'50
2. II. Fantasia 15'30
3. III. Finale. Vivace 9'21
Piano Quintet in G minor, JS159
4. I. Grave - Allegro 10'53
5. II. Intermezzo. Moderato 5'19
6. III. Andante 9'20
7. IV. Scherzo. Vivacissimo 3'20
8. V. Moderato - Vivace 9'40
9. La pompeuse Marche d'Asis, JS116
3'21
CD 14:
1. Vattendroppar (Water Drops), JS216
0'45
2. Andante cantabile in E flat major,
JS30b 4'12
3. Andante cantabile in G major, JS33
(for violin and piano) Andante cantabile
in G major, JS33 (1887) for violin and
piano 2'32
Sonata in F major, JS178 (for violin
and piano)
4. I. [Allegro] 11'16
5. II. Andante 6'01
6. III. Vivace 8'02
7. Malinconia, Op.20 (for cello and
piano) 12'18
Four Pieces, Op.78 for violin and piano
8. I. Impromptu 1'40
9. II. Romance in F major 3'22
10. III. Religioso 4'00
11. IV. Rigaudon 1'52
Sonatina in E major, Op.80 (for violin
and piano)
12. I. Lento - Allegro 3'49
13. II. Andantino 3'51
14. III. Lento - Allegretto 3'58
Two Danses Champêtres from Op.106
(for violin and piano)
15. I. Largamente assai - Vivace 5'02
16. II. Alla polacca 2'25
CD 15:
Florestan, JS82
1. I. Moderato 1'33
2. II. Molto moderato 2'23
3. III. Andante 4'06
4. IV. Tempo I 2'06
Sonata in F major, Op.12
6. I. Allegro molto 5'51
7. II. Andantino 6'54
8. III. Vivacissimo 4'00
9. Romance in D flat major, Op.24 No.9
4'00
Kyllikki, three lyric pieces, Op.41
10. I. Largamente - Allegro 3'03
11. II. Andantino 4'29
12. III. Commodo 3'17
Sonatina in F sharp minor, Op.67 No.1
13. I. Allegro 2'31
14. II. Largo 2'52
15. III. Allegro moderato 1'43
Sonatina in E major, Op.67 No.2
16. I. Allegro 1'51
17. II. Andantino 2'19
18. III. Allegro 1'24
Sonatina in B minor, Op.67 No.3
19. I. Andante - Allegro moderato 2'57
20. II. Andante - Allegro 3'20
21. Den ensamma furan (The Solitary
Fir Tree), Op.75 No.2 2'03
22. Granen (The Spruce), Op.75 No.5
2'53
23. Scène romantique, Op.101
No.5 3'31
24. The Village Church, Op.103 No.1
3'10
Individual Track Details:
1.
Symphony no 1 in E minor, Op. 39
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Timo Saarenpää (Clarinet)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 35 Minutes 4 Secs.
Notes: Church of the Cross,
Lahti, Finland (10/14/1996 - 10/16/1996)
2. Symphony no 4 in A minor, Op.
63 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Ilkka Pälli (Cello)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1911; Finland
Venue:
Church of the Cross, Lahti, Finland
Length: 39 Minutes 27 Secs.
Notes: Church of the Cross,
Lahti, Finland (01/09/1997 - 01/10/1997)
3. Symphony no 2 in D major, Op.
43 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901-1902; Finland
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 44 Minutes 44 Secs.
Notes: Church of the Cross,
Lahti, Finland (10/16/1996 - 10/18/1996)
4. Symphony no 3 in C major, Op.
52 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1907; Finland
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 30 Minutes 32 Secs.
Notes: Church of the Cross,
Lahti, Finland (01/07/1997 - 01/08/1997)
5. Symphony no 5 in E flat major,
Op. 82 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1915/1919; Finland
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 31 Minutes 20 Secs.
Notes: Composer: Jean Sibelius.
Version: 1919
Church of the Cross, Lahti, Finland
(06/02/1997 - 06/04/1997)
6. En saga, Op. 9 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Tuulia Ylönen (Clarinet),
Anna Kreeta (Viola)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892/1902; Finland
Length: 18 Minutes 3 Secs.
7. Pohjola's daughter, Op. 49
by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Finland
Length: 13 Minutes 10 Secs.
8. Kuolema: Valse triste, Op. 44
no 1 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903-1904; Finland
Length: 4 Minutes 42 Secs.
9. Finlandia, Op. 26 by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899-1900; Finland
Length: 8 Minutes 28 Secs.
10. Symphony no 6 in D minor, Op.
104 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1923; Finland
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 26 Minutes 45 Secs.
Notes: Church of the Cross,
Lahti, Finland (06/04/1997 - 06/06/1997)
11. Symphony no 7 in C major, Op.
105 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Antti Autio (Trombone)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1924; Finland
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 22 Minutes 44 Secs.
Notes: Church of the Cross,
Lahti, Finland (08/04/1997 - 08/05/1997)
12. Tapiola, Op. 112 by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1926; Finland
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 17 Minutes 22 Secs.
Notes: Church of the Cross,
Lahti, Finland (08/05/1997 - 08/06/1997)
13. Concerto for Violin in D minor,
Op. 47 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903-1905; Finland
Length: 34 Minutes 29 Secs.
14. Pieces (2) for Violin/Cello and
Orchestra, Op. 77 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Marko Ylönen (Cello)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1914; Finland
Length: 8 Minutes 32 Secs.
15. Serenades (2) for Violin and
Orchestra, Op. 69 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Dong-Suk Kang (Violin)
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1912-1913; Finland
Length: 13 Minutes 7 Secs.
16. Humoresques (2) for Violin and
Orchestra, Op. 87 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Dong-Suk Kang (Violin)
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1917; Finland
Date of Recording: 8/1989
Venue: Gothenburg Concert Hall,
Sweden
Length: 5 Minutes 40 Secs.
17. Humoresques (4) for Violin and
Orchestra, Op. 89 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Dong-Suk Kang (Violin)
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1917-1918; Finland
Date of Recording: 8/1989
Venue: Gothenburg Concert Hall,
Sweden
Length: 14 Minutes 14 Secs.
18. Kullervo, Op. 7 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Lilli Paasikivi (Mezzo
Soprano), Raimo Laukka (Baritone)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra, Helsinki University Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892; Finland
Date of Recording: 9/2000
Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 80 Minutes 46 Secs.
Language: Finnish
19. Wood nymph, Op. 15 by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Timo Keinonen (Cello)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1895; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1996
Venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti,
Finland
Length: 21 Minutes 36 Secs.
20. Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.
22 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893/1895; Finland
Length: 48 Minutes 47 Secs.
21. Karelia Suite, Op. 11 by
Jean Sibelius
Performer: Raimo Laukka (Baritone)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Finland
Length: 17 Minutes 2 Secs.
Notes: This version of Sibelius'
"Karelia" includes movements completed
and reconstructed by Kalevi Aho (1997).
22. Scènes historiques no
1, Op. 25 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Length: 17 Minutes 55 Secs.
23. Choral Songs (3), Op. 31: no
3, Song of the Athenians by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra, Helsinki University Chorus,
Lahti Boys' Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs.
Language: Finnish
24. Origin of Fire, Op. 32 by
Jean Sibelius
Performer: Tommi Hakala (Baritone)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra, Helsinki University Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902/1910; Finland
Length: 9 Minutes 3 Secs.
Language: Finnish
25. Andante festivo for Strings and
Timpani by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1922; Finland
Length: 5 Minutes 10 Secs.
26. King Christian II, Op. 27
by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1898; Finland
Length: 25 Minutes 12 Secs.
27. Pelléas et Mélisande,
Op. 46 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1905; Finland
Length: 27 Minutes 52 Secs.
28. Quartet for Strings in A minor
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Ulla Lampela (Cello),
Laura Vikman (Violin), Silva Koskela (Violin),
Tiila Kangas (Viola)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Tempera String
Quartet
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Finland
Length: 34 Minutes 2 Secs.
29. Quartet for Strings in D minor,
Op. 56 "Voces intimae" by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Ulla Lampela (Cello),
Laura Vikman (Violin), Silva Koskela (Violin),
Tiila Kangas (Viola)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Tempera String
Quartet
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909; Finland
Length: 29 Minutes 33 Secs.
30. Snöfrid, Op. 29 by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Stina Ekblad (Spoken
Vocals)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra, Jubilate Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: ?1900; Finland
Length: 14 Minutes 15 Secs.
Language: Finnish
31. The Bard, Op. 64 by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Leena Saarenpää (Harp)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1913/1914; Finland
Length: 7 Minutes 32 Secs.
32. Oceanides, Op. 73 by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1914; Finland
Length: 10 Minutes 3 Secs.
33. Luonnotar, Op. 70 by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Helena Juntunen (Soprano)
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: ?1910; Finland
Length: 8 Minutes 50 Secs.
Language: Finnish
34. Partsongs (9), Op. 18: no 1,
To the fatherland by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Matti Hyökki,
Astrid Riska
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki
University Chorus, Jubilate Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893-1907; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 19 Secs.
Language: Finnish
35. Partsongs (9), Op. 18: no 3,
Fire on the island by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Matti Hyökki,
Astrid Riska
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki
University Chorus, Jubilate Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893-1907; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 12 Secs.
Language: Finnish
36. Partsongs (9), Op. 18: no 6,
The song of my heart by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Matti Hyökki
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki
University Male Chorus, Helsinki University
Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893-1907; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 12 Secs.
Language: Finnish
37. Partsongs (5), Op. 84: no 5,
To sea by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Robert Sund
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orphei Drängar,
Orphei Drangar
Period: Romantic
Written: 1914-1915; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.
Language: Finnish
38. Fridolin's folly by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Robert Sund
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orphei Drängar,
Orphei Drangar
Period: Romantic
Written: 1917; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: Finnish
39. Jonah's voyage by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Robert Sund
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orphei Drängar,
Orphei Drangar
Period: Romantic
Written: 1918; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 29 Secs.
Language: Finnish
40. March of the Finnish Jaeger Battalion,
Op. 91 no 1 by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra, Helsinki University Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1917; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 23 Secs.
Language: Finnish
41. Finlandia, Op. 26: Hymn by
Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Matti Hyökki,
Astrid Riska
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki
University Chorus, Jubilate Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899-1900; Finland
Date of Recording: 1992
Venue: Järvenpää
Concert Hall, Helsinki
Length: 2 Minutes 4 Secs.
Language: Finnish
42. Songs (6), Op. 36: no 1, Black
roses by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 56 Secs.
Language: Swedish
43. Songs (6), Op. 36: no 2, But
my bird by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 23 Secs.
Language: Swedish
44. Songs (6), Op. 36: no 4, Sigh,
sedges, sigh by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 33 Secs.
Language: Swedish
45. Songs (7), Op. 17: no 6, To evening
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1898; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 15 Secs.
Language: Swedish
46. Songs (6), Op. 50: no 3, Im Feld
ein Mädchen singt by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 0 Secs.
Language: German
47. Songs (6), Op. 50: no 4, Aus
banger Brust by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1905; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs.
Language: German
48. Songs (6), Op. 50: no 5, Die
stille Stadt by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 39 Secs.
Language: German
49. Runeberg Songs (7), Op. 13: no
4, Spring is flying by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Mari Anne Häggander (Soprano)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1891; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: Finnish
Notes: Composer: Jean Sibelius.
Version: 1914
50. Songs (7), Op. 17: no 1, And
I questioned them no further by
Jean Sibelius
Performer: Mari Anne Häggander (Soprano)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 53 Secs.
Language: Finnish
Notes: Composer: Jean Sibelius.
Version: 1903
51. Songs (5), Op. 38: no 1, Autumn
evening by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Mari Anne Häggander (Soprano)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903; Finland
Length: 4 Minutes 29 Secs.
Language: Finnish
52. Arioso, Op. 3 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Mari Anne Häggander (Soprano)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1911; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 48 Secs.
53. Liberated queen, Op. 48 by
Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra, Dominante Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1906; Finland
Length: 9 Minutes 16 Secs.
Language: Finnish
54. Rakastava, Op. 14: Suite for
String Orchestra, Triangle and Timpani
by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1911-1912; Finland
Length: 12 Minutes 6 Secs.
55. The Tempest, Op. 109: The Oak
Tree by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 25 Secs.
56. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
1 - Humoresque by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 0 Secs.
57. The Tempest, Op. 109: Farewell,
master "Caliban's Song" by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 9 Secs.
58. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
1 - Berceuse by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 6 Secs.
59. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
1 - Entr'acte by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
Notes: This selection is
part of a medley which also includes
"The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no 1 -
Ariel's Song."
60. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
1 - Ariel's Song by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
Notes: This selection is
part of a medley which also includes
"The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no 1 -
Entr'acte."
61. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
2 - Chorus of the Winds by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
62. The Tempest, Op. 109: Intermezzo
by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 39 Secs.
63. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
2 - Dance of the Nymphs by Jean
Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 49 Secs.
64. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
2 - Prospero by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 50 Secs.
65. The Tempest, Op. 109: Miranda
by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 3 Secs.
66. The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite no
1 - Storm by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 13 Secs.
67. Partsongs (9), Op. 18: no 7,
The broken voice by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Matti Hyökki
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki
University Male Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893-1907; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 20 Secs.
Language: Finnish
68. Partsongs (9), Op. 18: no 9,
The journey by boat by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Matti Hyökki
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki
University Male Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893-1907; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 34 Secs.
Language: Finnish
69. Cantata for the Helsinki University
ceremonies of 1897, Op. 23: Let our
sweet song of thanks by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Astrid Riska
Orchestra/Ensemble: Jubilate
Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1897/1899; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 31 Secs.
Language: Finnish
70. Partsongs (2), Op. 65: no 1,
Men from plain and sea by Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Astrid Riska
Orchestra/Ensemble: Jubilate
Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: Finland
Length: 4 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: Finnish
Notes: Composition written:
Finland (1911 - 1912).
71. Näcken, JS 138 by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Folke Gräsbeck (Piano),
Lasse Pöysti (Spoken Vocals),
Jaakko Kuusisto (Violin), Joel
Laakso (Cello)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 19 Secs.
72. Christmas Songs (5), Op. 1: no
4, Give me no splendour, gold or pomp
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Love Derwinger (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1994
Venue: Large Hall, Music Academy,
Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 43 Secs.
Language: Swedish
73. Josephson Songs (8), Op. 57:
no 5, I am a tree by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Love Derwinger (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1994
Venue: Large Hall, Music Academy,
Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 46 Secs.
Language: Swedish
74. Josephson Songs (8), Op. 57:
no 8, The watersprite by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Love Derwinger (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1994
Venue: Large Hall, Music Academy,
Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 10 Secs.
Language: Swedish
75. Hymn to Thaïs by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Love Derwinger (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1994
Venue: Large Hall, Music Academy,
Stockholm
Length: 1 Minutes 53 Secs.
Language: English
76. Songs (6), Op. 72: no 4, The
echo-nymph by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Love Derwinger (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1915; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1994
Venue: Large Hall, Music Academy,
Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 10 Secs.
Language: Finnish
77. Songs (6), Op. 86: no 2, Longing
is my heritage by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Love Derwinger (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1916; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1994
Venue: Large Hall, Music Academy,
Stockholm
Length: 3 Minutes 11 Secs.
Language: Swedish
78. Songs (6), Op. 86: no 6, Ye sisters,
ye brothers by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Monica Groop (Mezzo
Soprano), Love Derwinger (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1916; Finland
Date of Recording: 1/1994
Venue: Large Hall, Music Academy,
Stockholm
Length: 2 Minutes 1 Secs.
Language: Finnish
79. Songs (6), Op. 36: no 6, The
diamond on the March snow by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Jorma Hynninen (Baritone)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: Finnish
Notes: Composer: Jean Sibelius.
Version: 1916-17
80. King Christian II, Op. 27: no
4, The fool's song of the spider
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jorma Hynninen (Baritone)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1898; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs.
Language: Finnish
81. Songs (5), Op. 38: no 2, on a
balcony by the sea by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jorma Hynninen (Baritone)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 6 Secs.
Language: Finnish
Notes: Composer: Jean Sibelius.
Version: 1903
82. Twelfth Night, Op. 60: no 1,
Come away, death by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jorma Hynninen (Baritone)
Conductor: Jorma Panula
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs.
Language: Finnish
Notes: Composer: Jean Sibelius.
Version: 1957
83. Swim, duck, swim by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo
Soprano), Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 10 Secs.
Language: Swedish
84. Runeberg Songs (6), Op. 90: no
1, North by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo
Soprano), Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1917; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 4 Secs.
Language: German
85. Narciss by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo
Soprano), Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1918; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 45 Secs.
86. Songs (5), Op. 37: no 1, First
kiss by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo
Soprano), Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1898; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 52 Secs.
Language: Swedish
87. Songs (5), Op. 37: no 4, Was
it a dream? by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo
Soprano), Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: Swedish
88. Songs (5), Op. 37: no 5, Maiden's
tryst by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo
Soprano), Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 50 Secs.
Language: Swedish
89. The Thought by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo
Soprano), Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Monica Groop (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1915; Finland
Length: 1 Minutes 29 Secs.
90. Moderato and Allegro appassionato
for 2 Violins, Viola and Cello in C
sharp minor, JS 131 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Ulla Lampela (Cello),
Laura Vikman (Violin), Silva Koskela (Violin),
Tiila Kangas (Viola)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Tempera String
Quartet
Period: 20th Century
Length: 10 Minutes 33 Secs.
91. Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello
in D major, JS 209 "Korpo" by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto (Violin),
Folke Gräsbeck (Piano), Marko
Ylönen (Cello)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Finland
Length: 35 Minutes 41 Secs.
92. Quintet for Piano and Strings
in G minor by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto (Violin),
Folke Gräsbeck (Piano), Joel
Laakso (Cello),
Laura Vikman (Violin), Anna Kreetta
Gribajcevic (Viola)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Finland
Length: 41 Minutes 53 Secs.
93. La pompeuse Marche d'Asis, JS
116 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto (Violin),
Folke Gräsbeck (Piano), Marko
Ylönen (Cello)
Period: Romantic
Length: 3 Minutes 21 Secs.
94. Water Drops by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto (Violin),
Taneli Turunen (Cello)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1876; Finland
Length: 0 Minutes 45 Secs.
95. Andante cantabile for Piano and
Harmonium in E flat major, JS 30b
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Harri Viitanen (Harmonium),
Folke Gräsbeck (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: Finland
Length: 4 Minutes 12 Secs.
96. Andante cantabile for Violin
and Piano in G major by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto (Violin),
Folke Gräsbeck (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 32 Secs.
97. Sonata for Violin and Piano in
F major by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto (Violin),
Folke Gräsbeck (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Finland
Length: 25 Minutes 19 Secs.
98. Malinconia for Cello and Piano,
Op. 20 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Torleif Thedéen (Cello),
Folke Gräsbeck (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901; Finland
Length: 12 Minutes 18 Secs.
99. Pieces (4) for Violin/Cello and
Piano, Op. 78 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1915-1919; Finland
Length: 10 Minutes 54 Secs.
100. Sonatina for Violin and Piano
in E major, Op. 80 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1915; Finland
Length: 11 Minutes 38 Secs.
101. Danses champêtres (5)
for Violin and Piano, Op. 106: Largamente
assai - Vivace by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 5 Minutes 2 Secs.
102. Danses champêtres (5)
for Violin and Piano, Op. 106: Alla
polacca by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1925; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 25 Secs.
103. Suite for Piano, JS 82 "Florestan"
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Folke Gräsbeck (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1889; Finland
Length: 10 Minutes 8 Secs.
104. Sonata for Piano in F major,
Op. 12 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Folke Gräsbeck (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Finland
Length: 16 Minutes 45 Secs.
105. Pieces (10) for Piano, in D
flat major Op. 24: no 9, Romance in
D flat major by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Erick T Tawaststjerna (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894-1903; Finland
Length: 4 Minutes 0 Secs.
106. Kyllikki, Op. 41 by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Erick T Tawaststjerna (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1904; Finland
Length: 10 Minutes 49 Secs.
107. Sonatinas (3) for Piano, Op.
67 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Erick T Tawaststjerna (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1912; Finland
Length: 18 Minutes 57 Secs.
108. Pieces (5) for Piano, Op. 75
"Trees": no 2, The lonely pine by
Jean Sibelius
Performer: Erick T Tawaststjerna (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1914; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 3 Secs.
109. Pieces (5) for Piano, Op. 75
"Trees": no 5, The spruce by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Erick T Tawaststjerna (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1914; Finland
Length: 2 Minutes 53 Secs.
110. Romantic Pieces (5) for Piano,
Op. 101: no 5, Scène romantique
by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Erick T Tawaststjerna (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1923; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs.
111. Pieces (5) for Piano, Op. 103:
no 1, The Village Church by Jean
Sibelius
Performer: Erick T Tawaststjerna (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1924; Finland
Length: 3 Minutes 10 Secs
Helena Juntunen, (soprano), MariAnne Häggander,
(soprano), Lilli Paasikivi, (mezzo), Monica Groop,
(mezzo), Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo), Jorma Hynninen,
(baritone), Raimo Laukka, (baritone), Tommi Hakala,
(baritone), Sauli Tiilikainen, (baritone), Stina
Ekblad, (narrator), Lasse Pöysti, (narrator),
Leonidas Kavakos, (violin), Laura Vikman, (violin),
Nils-Erik Sparf, (violin), Jaakko Kuusisto, (violin),
Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic, (viola), Marko Ylönen,
(cello), Taneli Turunen, (cello), Torleif Thedéen,
(cello), Joel Laakso, (cello), Erik T. Tawaststjerna,
(piano), Bengt Forsberg, (piano), Folke Gräsbeck,
(piano), Love Derwinger, (piano), Harri Viitanen,
(harmonium), Tempera Quartet, (string quartet)
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