Osmo Vänskä

Finnish conductor, Finland, 1953 to present

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
1986 The Three Clarinet Concertos
1989 Symphony no. 1 / Hiljaisuus / Violin Concerto
1990 Sinfonisia luonnoksia / Cello Concerto / Symphony no. 4
1990 Concertante Wind Works
1990 Finnish Clarinet Ensemble
1991 Violin Concerto in D minor, Original and Final Version
1991 Inauguratio / Symphony no. 2 / Interludes from the Opera "The Last Temptations" / Erekhtheion
1991 ...durch einen Spiegel... / Wind Quintet / Sinfonia da camera / Il paesaggio
1992 Variations for Orchestra / Violin Concerto / Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March / The Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote
1992 Sinfonietta, op. 1 / Serenade, op. 31 / Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal / Nocturne, op. 60
1992 A Festival of Finnish Music
1992 The Tempest, op. 109
92 more releases
1993 Complete Works for Two Pianos
1993 Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings / Concordanza / Detto II
1994 Whirls (Pyörteitä) Ballet Suites 1 & 2 / Lemminkäinen’s Island Adventures / Song of Lake Kuujärvi
1994 Symphony no. 1 / Violin concerto / Symphony no. 8
1994 Nummisuutarit, Overture / Theme with Seven Variations and Coda, op. 44 / Kalevala Suite, op. 23
1994 Das Lied von der Erde (version for chamber orchestra by Schoenberg/Riehn)
1995 Symphony no. 9 for Trombone & Orchestra / Concerto for Cello & Orchestra
1995 Jedermann, op. 83 / Belshazzar's Feast, op. 51 (original score) / The Countess's Portrait
1995 Saga Symphony
1996 The Four Symphonies / Requiem
1996 Symphony no. 5 (original 1915 version) / En Saga (original 1892 version)
1996 The Wood-Nymph
1997 Geysir and Other Orchestral Works
1997 Clarinet Quartets nos. 1-3
1997 Symphonies 1 & 4
1997 Whirls, Act I / Violin Concerto / Suomenlinna
1997 Symphony no. 10 / Rejoicing of the Deep Waters
1997 Symphonies 2 & 3
1997 Violin Concerto (original 1903/04 version) / The Wood-Nymph (Tone-poem & melodrama)
1997 Karelia - Complete Score / Kuolema - Incidental music
1997 Symphonies 6 & 7 / Tapiola
1998 The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 18: Korngold: Piano Concerto in C-sharp for the Left Hand, op. 17 / Marx: Romantisches Klavierkonzert
1998 Symphony no. 8 / Pergamon
1998 BBC Music, Volume 6, Number 9: Mendelssohn: Scottish Symphony / Beethoven: Symphony no. 1
1998 Joulun Ihmemaa
1998 Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 7 "Insect Symphony"
1999 Symphony 'Vigil'
1999 The World's Ransoming / Cello Concerto
1999 Karelia Suite / King Christian II / Pelléas et Mélisande
1999 Lemminkäinen Suite with World Premiere Recording of Original Versions of no. 1 & 4
1999 Angel of Light / Dances With the Winds / Cantus Arcticus
1999 Preludio a un altro giorno / La Pisanella / Rondò veneziano / L'Edipo Re di Sofocle
2000 Sibelius - Lahti - Vänskä
2000 Finland Awakes
2000 Chinese Songs / Symphony no. 4
2000 Symphony no. 3
2001 Kullervo
2001 FINNISH HYMNS 1
2002 The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie / Tuireadh / The Exorcism Of Rio Sumpúl
2002 Symphonies 3 & 4
2002 Music!
2002 Symphonies 1 & 6
2002 Tone Poems
2003 Symphonies 2 (The Four Temperaments) & 5
2003 Aho: Symphony no. 3 / Mussorgsky/Aho: Songs & Dances of Death
2003 Rondo of the Waves
2003 Die Loreley
2003 Beloved Swedish Psalm Melodies
2004 Segunda sinfonía y otras obras orquestales
2004 Symphonic Dances / Symphony no. 11
2004 Finnish Rhapsody / Kullervo's Funeral March / Sinfonietta / Aino
2004 The Journey: Symphony no. 8 / Violin Concerto
2004 Snöfrid: Cantatas and Orchestral Works
2004 Suomalainen Virsi (Finnish Hymns), Vol. 3
2004 Beethoven Symphonies nos. 4 & 5
2005 Song of the Earth
2006 Spirit of Nature: Songs, Cantatas and Orchestral Works
2006 Beethoven Symphonies nos. 3 & 8
2006 Beethoven Symphony no. 9
2007 A Night at the Proms: Two Great Televised Performances From the Albert Hall
2007 The Origin of Fire
2007 Clarinet Concertos
2007 BBC Music, Volume 15, Number 12: A Night at the Proms
2007 Beethoven Symphonies nos. 1 & 6
2008 Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3 In A Minor / Bax: Tintagel
2008 The Voice of Sibelius
2008 Beethoven Symphonies nos. 2 & 7
2009 To Be Certain of the Dawn
2009 Turbulent Landscapes
2010 Symphony No. 4 'Romantic'
2010 Piano Concerto no. 2 / Symphony no. 13
2010 Symphonie fantastique
2010 Piano Concertos 4 & 5
2012 Symphonies nos. 2 & 5
2012 Quintet for Clarinet and Strings / Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano / Sonata for Two Accordions
2013 Symphonies nos. 1 & 4
2013 Beethoven: Piano Concerto 3 / Mozart: Piano Concerto 24
2014 Lemminkäinen Suite / The Wood-Nymph
2016 Symphonies nos. 3 / 6 / 7
2017 Piano Concertos 1 & 2
2017 Symphony no. 5
2018 Symphony no. 6
2019 Symphony no.1
2019 Symphony no. 4
2020 Symphony no. 7
2020 Kullervo
2021 Symphony no.10
2022 Violin Concerto III / Chamber Symphony I / Silla
2023 Symphony no. 9
2023 Symphony no. 8
2024 Symphony no. 3 in D minor
2025 BBC Music, Volume 34, Number 1: Symphonies nos. 2 & 6

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
1999 BBC Music, Volume 8, Number 3: Symphonies nos. 6 (Pastoral) & 8
2010 Petrushka
2010 The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 50: The Three Piano Concertos / Concert Fantasia
2010 Symphony no. 7
2017 Sibelius: Kullervo / Kortekangas: Migrations
2019 Symphony no. 2 "Resurrection"

Soundtracks

Year Title Average Ratings
2003 Sibelius: Music From Timo Koivusalo's Film