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Osmo Vänskä’s Sibelius cycle is unquestionably one of the great ones, and its qualities are well-known: extremes of tempo (the Scherzo of the First, the
Okko Kamu is a pro, and a thoroughly idiomatic Sibelius conductor, and of course the Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s credentials already have been certified. The performances
Armas Järnefelt was Sibelius’ brother-in-law and a well known conductor in his day, spending most of his career in and about Stockholm. As a composer
Kalevi Aho really is a good composer–you can tell right from the beginning of his Second Piano Concerto. Scored only for keyboard and strings, the
This set contains almost all of Sibelius’ incidental music written to accompany spoken theater (King Kristian II, Swanwhite, Pelléas and Mélisande, Belshazzar’s Feast, Kuolema, Jedermann,
Kalevi Aho loves a challenge, though at times (as in his recent disc of concertos for contrabassoon and tuba) the effort can seem more an
This set contains some of Sibelius’ best and most unfamiliar work, as well as some pretty utilitarian cantatas and patriotic songs (in multiple versions). Still,
This entry in BIS’s projected 13-volume Sibelius Edition offers all of the popular tone poems as well as a few that are not so familiar,
This is a very appealing disc of Sibelius choral music, though some of the items have appeared previously in BIS’s ongoing series, either in alternate
Flute concertos constitute one of the few media in which it’s generally more interesting to listen to contemporary music than to the works of past
