Jean Sibelius
Orchestral Songs
Jorma Hynninen, baritone · Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra · Leif Segerstam, conductor
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Jean Sibelius
The Tempest, Op. 109
Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano
Raili Viljakainen, soprano
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Jorma Silvasti, tenor
Sauli Tiilikainen, baritone
Opera Festival Chorus
Finnish RSO
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
Track listing
1 tracks · 59:38Listen to samples on selected tracks.
Jean Sibelius
- The Tempest, Op. 109 59:38
- 1 Act I-V 59:38
Features
Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish and the sung texts in the original Swedish and in English
The artists
Monica Groop
Finnish mezzo-soprano Monica Groop has been recognised for her amazing versatility in a wide-ranging repertoire that spans baroque music through classical to contemporary and has performed in many of the world's leading opera houses and orchestras such as Covent Garden, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. She has worked with conductors as diverse as Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Roger Norrington, Ivor Bolton, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Christoph Eschenbach.
Jorma Hynninen
Baritone Jorma Hynninen is one of the most highly appreciated Finnish vocal artists of all time. His unprejudiced and profound approach to art has contributed not only to a renewal in the art of interpreting solo songs but also to the creation of a number of new contemporary operas. In Lied, he has concentrated on the song cycles of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf and the solo songs of Sibelius, Oskar Merikanto, Toivo Kuula and Yrjö Kilpinen. He has appeared at innumerable distinguished venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Musikverein, the Concertgebouw, Boston Symphony Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall and the festivals at Tanglewood, Ravinia and Salzburg.
Opera Festival Chorus
The Opera Festival Chorus was founded in 1979 and served until 1992 as the resident choir of the Savonlinna Opera Festival. In 1995 the ensemble changed its name into Finnish Philharmonic Chorus.
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