Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra > Baritone

Juha Uusitalo - The Wagner Album / Leif Segerstam, Helsinki PO

1 CD / Ondine / 2004-02-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Parsifal; Tannhäuser; Siegfried; Die Walküre
Performers: Uusitalo, Juha
Conductors: Segerstam, Leif
Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo's first aria album features the best-known arias for male voice from Wagner's operas, including the popular "Song to the Evening Star"...continue...

Rautavaara: Song of My Heart, etc / Suovanen, et al

1 CD / Ondine / 2002-09-19

Works: Einojuhani Rautavaara: Sonnets (3) of Shakespeare, song cycle for high or medium voice & piano (or orchestra); Sonnets (5) to Orpheus, for medium voice & orchestra (or piano); Die Liebenden, song cyc...
Performers: Suovanen, Gabriel
Conductors: Segerstam, Leif
Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

"The most wonderful thing about Rautavaara's songs is that no matter what the technical basis of his compositional method, he understands that "song" means an...continue...

Sibelius: Cantata for the Conferment Ceremony of 1894, etc

1 CD / Ondine / 1995-11-16

Works: Jean Sibelius: Academic March (Promotiomarssi), for orchestra; Cantata for the Helsinki University Ceremonies of 1894, for chorus & orchestra, JS 105; Andante festivo for Strings and Timpani; Cantata...
Performers: Isokoski, Soile; Kortekangas, Jaakko
Conductors: Segerstam, Leif
Ensemble: Finnish Philharmonic Choir; Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

"This CD includes three works from the first decade of Sibelius's maturity and two from the last...Under the circumstances any recording that opens up two...continue...