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The Unknown Sibelius

Helena Juntunen (soprano), Folke Gräsbeck (piano), Gabriel Suovanen (baritone), Anne Sofie von Otter & Monika Groop (mezzos), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Jaakko Kuusisto & Laura Vikman (violins), Taneli Turunen (cello), Laura Vikman (solo violin), Jaakko Kuusisto (violin...

A fascinating, wintry Sibelius disc, including premiere recordings of some lovely solo piano works (my favorite is a noble Impromptu in B minor — New York Times, 4th December 2013

Release Date: 29th Jul 2013
Catalogue No: BIS2065
Label: BIS
Series: New Sibelius Complete Edition
Length: 79 minutes

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Sibelius: Finland Awakes (preliminary version of Finlandia)

Work length8:36

$2.00

$2.60

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

Sibelius: The Oceanides, Op. 73

Work length7:37

$2.00

$2.60

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

Sibelius: Jag kysser dig ej (I Kiss You and Weary Not)

Work length0:59

$1.00

$1.30

Folke Gräsbeck (piano), Helena Juntunen (soprano)

Sibelius: Tule, tule kultani

Work length1:20

$1.00

$1.30

Folke Gräsbeck (piano), Gabriel Suovanen (baritone)

Sibelius: Tanken

Work length1:36

$1.00

$1.30

Bengt Forsberg (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)

Sibelius: Italian Folk-songs, JS 99

Work length4:56

$2.00

$2.60

Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Folke Gräsbeck (piano)
Dominante Choir
Seppo Murto
Recorded: January 2010
Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland

No. 1. Ohi, Caroli!

Track length2:53

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2. Trippole Trappole

Track length2:03

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$1.30

Sibelius: Fridolins dårskap (Fridolin’s Folly), JS84

Work length2:34

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Orphei Drängar
Robert Sund

Sibelius: Jone havsfärd (Jonah’s Voyage), JS100

Work length2:38

$1.00

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Orphei Drängar
Robert Sund

Sibelius: Serenata, JS169

Work length7:01

$1.00

$1.30

Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Taneli Turunen (cello), Laura Vikman (violin)

Sibelius: Ödlan (The Lizard), Op. 8 - incidental music

Work length17:17

$4.00

$5.15

Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Jyrki Lasonpalo (violin), Taneli Turunen (cello), Eero Munter (double bass), Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic (viola), Laura Vikman (violin)
Recorded: March 2006
Recording Venue: Kuusankoski Hall, Finland

Scene 1

Track length2:52

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$1.30

Scene 2

Track length14:25

$3.00

$3.85

Sibelius: Andantino in D major

Work length3:04

$1.00

$1.30

Folke Gräsbeck (piano)

Sibelius: Impromptu in B Minor

Work length7:23

$2.00

$2.60

Folke Gräsbeck (piano)

Sibelius: Adagio in E major, JS13

Work length1:58

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$1.30

Folke Gräsbeck (piano)

Sibelius: Rakkaalle Ainolle (To My Beloved Aino), JS 161

Work length4:39

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$1.30

Folke Gräsbeck (piano), Peter Lonnqvist (piano)

Sibelius: 4 Orchestral Fragments

Work length3:17

$4.00

$5.20

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: May 2012
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

HUL 1325

Track length1:20

$1.00

$1.30

HUL 1326 / 9

Track length0:19

$1.00

$1.30

HUL 1326 / 10

Track length0:25

$1.00

$1.30

HUL 1327

Track length1:13

$1.00

$1.30

Sibelius: Processional (‘Onward, Ye Peoples'), Op. 113 No. 6

Work length4:12

$1.00

$1.30

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

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The Unknown Sibelius presents a spectrum of the music that is the least wide-spread of the Finnish master’s production, either because the pieces included belong to genres not usually associated with ‘Sibelius the symphonist’, or because they appear in versions that differ from the ones that are performed frequently all over the world. A case in point is the opening Finland Awakes, a rarely heard version of what is possibly Sibelius’ best-known piece, Finlandia, in which the famous ‘hymn’ tune is restated in full, scored with unashamed flamboyance for brass, at the end of the piece. That recording and others on this disc are culled from the complete SIBELIUS EDITION brought to a close in 2011 – but completeness is a relative concept: a ‘complete’ edition is only complete until the next mislaid manuscript or forgotten work is re-discovered. The present disc thus serves a dual purpose, as it also includes première recordings of works and fragments that have been discovered or otherwise have become available after the EDITION was brought to a close. Among these, the late orchestral fragments earned a certain celebrity in October 2011, as media across the world greeted the discovery of what was soon proclaimed to be sketches for the famed 8th Symphony – that elusive Holy Grail of all Sibelius-spotters. Dr. Timo Virtanen, the respected authority on Sibelius, has prepared the sketches for the present recording and also written a text – available on the BIS web site – discussing them and the context in which they may have been written. If the orchestral fragments generally tend towards the harmonically bold sound world that Sibelius explored in some of his very late works, the three piano pieces that have also come to recent light are earlier works which all in different ways are connected to other compositions by Sibelius.

Artists

Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dominante Choir, Orphei Drängar, Osmo Vänskä, Seppo Murto, Robert Sund, Okko Kamu

Reviews

New York Times 4th December 2013

A fascinating, wintry Sibelius disc, including premiere recordings of some lovely solo piano works (my favorite is a noble Impromptu in B minor

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