Sibelius: The Tempest Overture and Suites

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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. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: BISSACD1945
Label: BIS
Length: 71 minutes

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29th August 2011

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Sibelius: The Tempest, Op. 109

Work length1:40

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

Overture

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Sibelius: The Tempest - Suite No. 1, Op. 109 No. 2

Work length36:56

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

I. The Oak Tree

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II. Humoresque

Track length18:08

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III. Caliban's Song

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IV. The Harvesters

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V. Canon

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Sibelius: The Tempest Suite No. 1, Op. 109, No. 2, VI. Scene

Work length1:31

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

Sibelius: The Tempest - Suite No. 1, Op. 109 No. 2

Work length7:13

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

VII. Intrada - Berceuse

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VIII. Entr'acte - Ariel's Song

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IX. The Storm

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Sibelius: The Tempest, Suite No. 2, Op. 109

Work length20:18

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

I. Chorus of the Winds

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II. Intermezzo

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III. Dance of the Nymphs

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IV. Prospero

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V. Song I

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V. Song II

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VI. Miranda

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VII. The Naiads

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VIII. Dance Episode

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Sibelius: The Bard, Op. 64

Work length1:34

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

Sibelius: Tapiola, Op. 112

Work length2:17

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu

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Recording of the Week, BIS - Maxim Rysanov, Sibelius and a special offer

29th August 2011

The Ukrainian viola-player persuasively appropriates works for cello by Tchaikovsky and Schubert, Okko Kamu conducts Sibelius’s suites from The Tempest, Tapiola and The Bard, and BIS’s mighty Sibelius Edition crosses the finishing-line with a collection of orchestral fragments and works with organ.

To many, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra has become synonymous with excellence in Sibelius repertoire. Its numerous recordings with the previous chief conductor Osmo Vänskä have received countless distinctions and awards. On the present disc the orchestra is conducted by Okko Kamu, Vänskä's successor as chief conductor.

Here three other works by Sibelius make up the programme, which opens with music for Shakespeare's play The Tempest, for which the composer in 1925 wrote the most ambitious of his several theatre scores.

In 1926, a year after The Tempest, Sibelius again turned to the realm of magic in his masterful evocation of the forest, the symphonic poem Tapiola. The title can be translated as ‘the domain of Tapio’, god of the forest in Finnish mythology. The work has been regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces from Sibelius’ pen.

These two large-scale works are here separated by the seven-minute long symphonic poem The Bard from 1913, a work which in its treatment of the thematic material and the chamber-music-like quality of its scoring invites comparison with the Fourth Symphony of two year’s earlier.

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January 2012

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.

15th September 2011

it's clear from this latest disc with its new chief Okko Kamu, who takes up his post this autumn, that the commitment to Sibelius is set to continue...On this evidence Kamu is a less flexible, more regimented Sibelius conductor than Vänskä, just as careful with instrumental detail

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