Sibelius: The Tempest, The Bard, Tapiola / Okko Kamu, Lahti Symphony Orchestra

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Label
BIS
Release Date
July 1, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SIBELIUS, JEAN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Lahti Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Okko, Kamu
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 01, 2011
    • UPC
      7318599919454
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-SACD-1945
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. The Tempest, Op. 109: Overture

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    2. I. The Oak Tree

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    3. II. Humoresque

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    4. III. Caliban's Song

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    5. IV. The Harvesters

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    6. V. Canon

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    7. VI. Scene

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    8. VII. Intrada - Berceuse

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    9. VIII. Entr'acte - Ariel's Song

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    10. IX. The Storm

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    11. I. Chorus of the Winds

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    12. II. Intermezzo

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    13. III. Dance of the Nymphs

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    14. IV. Prospero

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    15. V. Song I

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    16. V. Song II

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    17. VI. Miranda

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    18. VII. The Naiads

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    19. VIII. Dance Episode

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    20. Barden (The Bard), Op. 64

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    21. Tapiola, Op. 112

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu


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, and the orchestra is universally regarded as having a very special affinity for the music of their great compatriot. On the present disc it is Okko Kamu, Vänskä's successor as chief conductor, who wields the baton. Kamu has been a presence on the international scene ever since the early 1970s, when he made a highly-acclaimed set of Sibelius symphonies in partnership with Herbert von Karajan. 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. For concert use he later selected the Overture and two Suites recorded here. 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, and according to Walter Damrosch, who conducted the first performance, the audience was 'enthralled by the dark pine forests and the shadowy gods and wood-nymphs who dwell therein'. From the start 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.