Discography

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO) is the orchestra of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle), and its mission is to produce and promote Finnish musical culture.

 

The Radio Orchestra of ten players founded in 1927 grew to symphony orchestra proportions in the 1960s. Its Chief Conductors have been Toivo Haapanen, Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Paavo Berglund, Okko Kamu, Leif Segerstam, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sakari Oramo, Hannu Lintu, and as of autumn 2021 Nicholas Collon.

 

In addition to the great Classical-Romantic masterpieces, the latest contemporary music is a major item in the repertoire of the FRSO, which each year premieres a number of Yle commissions. Another of the orchestra’s tasks is to record all Finnish orchestral music for the Yle archive.

 

The FRSO has recorded works by Mahler, Bartók, Sibelius, Hakola, Lindberg, Lutoslawski, Saariaho, Sallinen, Kaipainen, Kokkonen and others. It has twice won a Gramophone Award: for its album of Lindberg’s Clarinet Concerto in 2006 and of Bartók Violin Concertos in 2018. Other distinctions have included BBC Music Magazine, Académie Charles Cros, MIDEM Classical awards and Grammy nominations in 2020 and 2021. Its album of tone poems and songs by Sibelius won an International Classical Music Award (ICMA) in 2018, and it has been the recipient of a Finnish EMMA award in 2016 and 2019. In 2023, the orchestra was nominated for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year award.

 

FRSO concerts are broadcast live on the Yle Areena and Radio 1 channels, and later on the same evening on the Yle Teema TV channel. Recordings of the concerts are also shown on Yle TV 1.




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Edward Elgar

The Dream of Gerontius


Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano

John Findon, tenor

Roderick Williams, baritone

Helsinki Music Centre Choir

Cambridge University Symphony Chorus

Dominante

Helsinki Chamber Choir

Alumni of the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon

ODE 1451-2D



Released 02/2025

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Magnus Lindberg

Viola Concerto

Absence

Serenades


Lawrence Power, viola

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon

ODE 1436-2



Released 09/2024

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Jean Sibelius

Sibelius and the Kalevala

(Digital Album)


Various

ODE 1460-2



Released 03/2024

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Outi Tarkiainen

Midnight Sun Variations

Songs of the Ice

Milky Ways

The Ring of Fire and Love

 


Nicholas Daniel, cor anglais

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon, conductor

ODE 1432-2



Released 02/2024

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