Browse: Soile Isokoski (soprano)
This page lists all recordings performed by Soile Isokoski.
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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedArleen Augér (soprano - Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Engineering
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
12 CDs
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Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs
RecommendedSoile Isokoski (soprano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. No doubt the composer himself, with his love of the soprano voice, would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing. He might also... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Disc of the Month
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Sibelius - Orchestral Songs
RecommendedSoile Isokoski (soprano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Soile Isokoski's voice has matured into a powerful instrument without losing its distinctively plangent expressiveness and intense way with words… Segerstam… provides spacious yet vividly dramatic... — More…
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Disc of the Year & Vocal Award Winner
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano), Jon Villars (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) & John Relyea (bass)
Toronto Children’s Chorus, City Of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus,...
Never have the fragments of first-movement themes, bouncing and billowing on a sea of azure blue, come across more clearly; never has the essential naivety of Mahler's vision been more convincing.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Disc of the Month
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedStig Andersen (Waldemar), Andreas Conrad (Klaus-Narr), Soile Isokoski (Tove), Monica Groop (Waldtaube), Ralf Lukas (Bauer) & Barbara Sukowa (Sprecher)
Philharmonia Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
…exciting, lucid, wonderfully well-proportioned, and recorded in stunning sound the final hymn to the rising sun would lift the most morbidly lethargist out of their chair. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta), Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus), Thomas Allen (Music Master), Kate Lindsey (Composer)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Katharina Thoma
Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Opera Choice
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a living legend in Nordic music — More…
7 CDs
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R. Strauss: 3 Hymns & Opera arias
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Okko Kamu
The main attraction of the programme is the Drei Hymnen, which do not come round in recordings very often...As each of her three Straussian heroines, she embodies a very touching, human vulnerability. — More…
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Sibelius: Kullervo, Op. 7
Soile Isokoski (soprano) &Tommi Hakala (baritone)
YL Male Voice Choir & Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
For epic grandeur and excitement Rasilainen remains first choice. But Segerstam's more poetic, even reflective reading is a compelling alternative. — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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