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Okko Kamu is a highly underrated conductor. Are there plans for any more Sibelius from him, Robert?
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Post by Cilea May 30, 2011 (2 of 42)
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flyingdutchman said:
Okko Kamu is a highly underrated conductor. Are there plans for any more Sibelius from him, Robert?
He and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra are going to record the Sibelius Symphony Cycle for BIS:
http://www.sinfonialahti.fi/ajankohtaista/uutiset2011/en_GB/1294216339386/
(It's interesting that we'll get two Sibelius Cycles -- the other one is Vänskä/Minnesota -- from BIS in the near future. Though, my guess is that the Kamu/Lahti set won't be on SACD.)
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Post by bissie May 30, 2011 (3 of 42)
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Cilea said:
He and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra are going to record the Sibelius Symphony Cycle for BIS:
http://www.sinfonialahti.fi/ajankohtaista/uutiset2011/en_GB/1294216339386/
(It's interesting that we'll get two Sibelius Cycles -- the other one is Vänskä/Minnesota -- from BIS in the near future. Though, my guess is that the Kamu/Lahti set won't be on SACD.)
Ah, but you guessed wrong. Of course it will.
Robert
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Post by Cilea May 30, 2011 (4 of 42)
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bissie said:
Ah, but you guessed wrong. Of course it will.
Robert
Thanks, Robert! I'm more than happy to be wrong in this case. ;)
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Post by tream May 30, 2011 (5 of 42)
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flyingdutchman said:
Okko Kamu is a highly underrated conductor. Are there plans for any more Sibelius from him, Robert?
Wow - my one and only exposure to Kamu was in, I believe, 1972, when he appeared with the SF Symphony right after winning the first von Karajan conducting contest, and he performed the Sibelius 2nd. He received good notices as I recall, but I don't believe he has ever returned. If you recall, he was the conductor for symphonies 1,2,3 in the DG box set of the Sibelius symphonies, with HvK doing 4-7 - always thought that was a bit odd, since von Karajan had at least the 2nd in his repertoire - I had the EMI LP of him conducting the Philharmonia, I believe. Kamu obviously has had a distinguished career since so this is a very interesting move.
As a further aside - the second winner of the HvK conducting contest was Gabriel Chmura (I think) - who guest conducted the following year, accompanying Rudolf Serkin in Beethoven's 3rd and 5th piano concertos....in my opinion, this was one of the worst-conducted performances I have heard (although Serkin received the usual obligatory standing ovation), and I don't believe Chmura has had as distinguished career as Kamu.
Postscript - this is not meant to be about Gabriel Chmura - but I Googled him after writing the above, and see that he has been very active over his career and one could describe his career as distinguished. Maybe I caught him on a off-night. (Having said that, I also caught Rattle when he was 24 and MTT when he was 27, and their talent was obvious even then).
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Post by yakman May 30, 2011 (6 of 42)
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bissie said:
Ah, but you guessed wrong. Of course it will.
Robert
"The new edition of the complete symphonies is to be released as a set on the 150th anniversary of Sibelius’s birth in 2015."
So I guess it will be a SACD boxset, good news. Can save some space in shelf at least. But 2015..it will take another four years?
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I have a number of his live recordings from a Japanese label of the Helsinki PO. It is some of the best I have ever heard.
See here for just one of the recordings:
http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/product/detail/2683424
I think the rest that he did are now out of print.
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What I'd really like to see is an SACD of the complete Lemminkainen Legends. Is this also going to be on SACD, Robert?
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Post by toddao May 30, 2011 (9 of 42)
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flyingdutchman said:
What I'd really like to see is an SACD of the complete Lemminkainen Legends. Is this also going to be on SACD, Robert?
Seconded.
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Post by bissie May 31, 2011 (10 of 42)
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flyingdutchman said:
I have a number of his live recordings from a Japanese label of the Helsinki PO. It is some of the best I have ever heard.
See here for just one of the recordings:
http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/product/detail/2683424
I think the rest that he did are now out of print.
No, it isn't. He has quite a respectable discography with us and elsewhere.
Robert
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