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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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Compellingly shaped and hugely accomplished recital — More…
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Special offer. Suomi: Finland 100
A Century of Finnish Classics
Soile Isokoski, Jorma Hynninen & Matti Salminen
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Jyvaskyla Sinfonia, Leif Segerstam, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Hannu Lintu & John Storgards
Rautavaara's Summer Thoughts is part of a whole disc reflecting the composer's rather romantic nature-loving works for piano and violin. It's awash in memories from which images are constantly... — More…
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Jean Sibelius: Orchestral Songs
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka
Like the contemporaneous First and Second Symphonies, a Romantic warmth pulsates from these rich, lyrical works. Mezzo Kielland balances purity and ardour perfectly. — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year, Conductor of the Year & Solo Vocal
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…the whole Sibelius group, anything but an easy opener for the programme, sets exacting challenges to which Isokoski rises, culminating in the mini-opera "The maiden's tryst". In the Strauss... — More…
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Songs by Jean Sibelius
Pia Freund (soprano), Tommi Hakala (baritone) & Kristian Attila (piano)
Freund and Tommi Hakala here find an attractively intimate, chamber route into these songs, short-changing on neither enjoyment nor pain…this new collection, with well-balanced natural recording... — More…
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