Recordings and streams from Helsinki Festival

Get back into the Helsinki Festival atmosphere! On this page you will find recordings of the festival concerts.

Yle Areena, available until 25.8.2028: https://areena.yle.fi/1-66089818

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Verneri Pohjola, trumpet

Programme:
Kaija Saariaho: HUSH, trumpet concerto, world premiere
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Yle Areena, available until 17.9.2023: https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-65915816

Programme:
Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands
Thomas Tallis: Suscipe quaeso Domine
Nico Muhly: Rough Notes
William Byrd: Tribue domine
Arvo Pärt: Bogoroditse devo
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Bogoroditse devo
Judith Weir: Ave Regina caelorum
Robert White: Exaudiat te Dominus
Robert White: Christe, qui lux es et dies IV
Arvo Pärt: Which was the son of…

Yle Areena, available until 1.10.2023: https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-66133586

O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra
Hugo Ticciati, conductor, violin
Jörgen van Rijen, trombone
Johan Bridger, percussion

Programme: 
Hildegard von Bingen: Vos flores rosarum
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Josquin de Prez /sov. Johannes Marmén: Ave Maria
Luciano Berio: Sequenza V
Arvo Pärt: Vater Unser / sov. pasuunalle ja jousille                     
Albert Schnelzer: Apollonian Dances (‘Adolescent Apollo’)
Arvo Pärt: Darf ich…
Arvo Pärt: Silouan’s Song
Josquin de Prez / sov. Johannes Marmén: Mille regretz
Sting / arr. Marzi Nyman: Practical Arrangement
Arvo Pärt: Mein Weg
Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds B
Sting / arr. Alexander Ring: Shape of my Heart
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

The recording will be available on Yle Areena at the end of the year.

Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor
Charlotte Ritchie, Karl Queensborough, actors
Jane Mitchell and James Bonas, direction
Anouar Brissel, video design
David Bishop, lighting design

Programme:
Introduction, Nicholas Collon & Aurora Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Yle Areena, available until 1.10.2023: https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-66133740

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Tuomas Hannikainen, conductor

Programme:
Concert Overture
Musical introduction – historical images
Karelia

Yle Areena, available until 26.11.2023: https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-66026791

Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Tuomas Katajala, tenor
Miina-Liisa Värelä, soprano
Stefan Astakhov, baritone

Programme:
Lili Boulanger: Faust et Hélène
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Image on top of the page: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki & Verneri Pohjola / Saara Autere