Sibelius
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Most Finnish greats have recorded cycles of Sibelius symphonies at least once...Who’d have predicted that this latest, from Klaus Mäkelä at the helm of the Oslo Philharmonic would be the most... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Orchestral
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The orchestra's sound under Vänskä has a kind of sharp-focus richness that's never cloying. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Building a Library, May 2023, Recommended Recording
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Sibelius: Tapiola, En Saga & 8 Songs RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Lintu has added nothing to the familiar score [Tapiola] – just heard things it seems others haven’t heard before. Best of all is the way he draws out singing lines almost throughout the piece…I’m... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, 16th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Assorted Program
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Rouvali’s pacing, for the most part, feels instinctively ‘right’…The recording in Gothenburg’s wood-lined Concert Hall offers sonorous, yet clear lower textures, and if the high strings and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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It has a magic of its own which Andsnes casts equally, with his pure-source sound and range of colours, over early, middle and late Sibelius. The crystalline cascades of the Impromptu that launches... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite; Rakastava; Lemminkäinen Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
Mälkki and the orchestra remarkably conjure the dark, swirling soundworld of ‘Lemminkäinen in Tuonela’ (the Hades of Finnish legend). And the concluding ‘Lemminkäinen’s Return’ canters along... — More…
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While their elder conjures in translucent textures the otherworldly darkness of Lemminkäinen’s sojourn in the Land of the Dead, Madetoja and Pylkkänen opt for galloping drama and pathos in depicting... — More…
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Record Review, 4th December 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th December 2021
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 & King Christian II Suite
RecommendedGothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
The evidence here is of a serious artist, with a strikingly individual, but in no way contentious view of Sibelius’s much-performed symphony. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra must have played... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Sibelius: Symphony Nos. 3, 5 & Pohjola's Daughter
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
This latest recording of Sibelius’s Third gets off to a vital start, with marvellously gutsy playing from the Gothenburg strings...Yet the most exciting performance is of the Kalevala-based... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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For Kamu, [Tapiola] is a drama of the imagination and one discerns dimly the forest god moving between the trees, just as Sibelius intended. WIth superb sound, this is strongly recommended. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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