The Unknown Sibelius - Rarities & First Recordings

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BIS
Release Date
July 30, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SIBELIUS, JEAN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Lahti Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Vansk, Kamu, Juntunen, Von Otter, Groop, Suovanen, Hynninen, Kuusisto, Vik
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 30, 2013
    • UPC
      7318590020654
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2065
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Finland Awakes (preliminary version of Finlandia)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Osmo Vänskä

    2. The Oceanides, Op. 73 (Yale version)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Osmo Vänskä

    3. Jag kysser dig ej (I Kiss You and Weary Not)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Helena Juntunen, Folke Gräsbeck

    4. Tule, tule, kultani (Come, my Sweetheart), JS 211

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Gabriel Suovanen, Folke Gräsbeck

    5. Tanken (The Thought), JS 192

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter, Monica Groop, Bengt Forsberg

    6. No. 1. Ohi, Caroli!

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Dominante Choir

      Performer: Jorma Hynninen, Folke Gräsbeck

      Conductor: Seppo Murto

    7. No. 2. Trippole Trappole

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Dominante Choir

      Performer: Folke Gräsbeck

      Conductor: Seppo Murto

    8. Fridolins darskap (Fridolin's Folly), JS 84

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Orphei Drängar

      Conductor: Robert Sund

    9. Jone havsfard (Jonah's Voyage), JS 100

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Orphei Drängar

      Conductor: Robert Sund

    10. Serenata, JS 169

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto, Laura Vikman, Taneli Turunen

    11. Scene 1

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Laura Vikman, Jaakko Kuusisto, Jyrki Lasonpalo, Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic, Taneli Turunen, Eero Munter

    12. Scene 2

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto, Jyrki Lasonpalo, Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic, Taneli Turunen, Eero Munter

    13. Andantino in D Major

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Folke Gräsbeck

    14. Impromptu in B Minor

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Folke Gräsbeck

    15. Adagio in E Major, JS 13

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Folke Gräsbeck

    16. Rakkaalle Ainolle (To My Beloved Aino), JS 161

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Folke Gräsbeck, Peter Lonnqvist

    17. HUL 1325

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    18. HUL 1326/9

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    19. HUL 1326/10

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    20. HUL 1327

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Okko Kamu

    21. Processional, Op. 113, No. 6 (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Osmo Vänskä


The Unknown Sibelius presents a spectrum of the music that is the least wide-spread of the Finnish master’s production, either because the pieces included belong to genres not usually associated with ‘Sibelius the symphonist’, or because they appear in versions that differ from the ones that are performed frequently all over the world. A case in point is the opening Finland Awakes, a rarely heard version of what is possibly Sibelius’ best-known piece, Finlandia, in which the famous ‘hymn’ tune is restated in full, scored with unashamed flamboyance for brass, at the end of the piece. That recording and others on this disc are culled from the complete SIBELIUS EDITION brought to a close in 2011 – but completeness is a relative concept: a ‘complete’ edition is only complete until the next mislaid manuscript or forgotten work is re-discovered. The present disc thus serves a dual purpose, as it also includes première recordings of works and fragments that have been discovered or otherwise have become available after the EDITION was brought to a close. Among these, the late orchestral fragments earned a certain celebrity in October 2011, as media across the world greeted the discovery of what was soon proclaimed to be sketches for the famed 8th Symphony – that elusive Holy Grail of all Sibelius-spotters. Dr. Timo Virtanen, the respected authority on Sibelius, has prepared the sketches for the present recording and also written a text – available on the BIS web site – discussing them and the context in which they may have been written. If the orchestral fragments generally tend towards the harmonically bold sound world that Sibelius explored in some of his very late works, the three piano pieces that have also come to recent light are earlier works which all in different ways are connected to other compositions by Sibelius.