Since you are interested in Das Marienleben (1948 version), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Luonnotar, Op. 70 / Orchestral Songs Soile Isokoski (soprano) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Leif Segerstam (conductor) [ Ondine SACD / SACD - released 23/Jun/2006 ] MIDEM Classical Award 2007 Winner Disc of the Year & Vocal Award Winner (BBC Music Magazine) |
SIBELIUS
Sibelius - Tone Poems (Incls Finlandia, Luonnotar, Karelia Suite, & Oceanides) Soile Isokoski. Gateborgs Symfoniker. Neeme Jarvi [ DG Trio / 3 CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] All the major works: Finlandia, Luonnotar, Karelia Suite, Oceanides, King Christian, The Swan of Tuonela, 4 Legends from Kalavala, Phjola's Daughter, Night Ride and Sunrise, En Saga, Spring Song, 4 excerpts from Kuolema, The Bard, Tapiola |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Paulus Op. 36 (complete oratorio) Melanie Diener, Annette Markert, James Taylor, Matthias Goerne / La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi HMHeritage / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "Like all Herreweghe's performances of choral works, this one has a welcome unity of purpose in a reading notable for finely moulded choral singing and sensitively executed orchestral playing, all controlled by the conductor's disciplined yet flexibl |
SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Soile Isokoski / Monica Groop / Stig Andersen / City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & The Philharmonia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] "Sometimes less is not more. More is exhilarating...the music-making was superb...And what terrific soloists!" ***** Richard Morrison, The Times |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hymns in Finnish: laulaa virsiAN 2 Soile Isokoski (soprano) Marita Viitasalo (piano) [ Ondine / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] This CD features star soprano Soile Isokoski and her long-time accompanist Marita Viitasalo with an anthology from the Finnish hymn book. Recorded by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) between 2002-05, this selection of twenty hymns forms the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Laulaa virdia-Hymns in Finnish Soile Isokoski (soprano) Marita Viitasalo (piano) [ Ondine / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] This CD features star soprano Soile Isokoski and her long-time accompanist Marita Viitasalo with an anthology from the Finnish hymn book. Recorded by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) between 2002-04, this selection of twenty hymns forms the... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / BIZET / GOUNOD / VERDI / PUCCINI
Scene d'amore Soile Isokoski (soprano) Marita Viitasalo (piano) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Mikko Franck, conductor [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Oct/2008 ] This disc features the great lyric soprano Soile Isokoski with popular love scenes and arias from 19th-century Italian, French and Russian operas marking her greatest successes on stage. |
FREDRIK PACIUS
Die Loreley (Opera in two acts sung in the original German) Soile Isokoski (soprano) Raimo Sirkia (tenor) Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) Riikka Rantanen (mezzo-soprano) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2004 ] "The first recording of an opera premiered in 1887. Congratulations are due to all those involved in rescuing from oblivion a work that never deserved such a fate" (ClassicWeb) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Four Last Songs and other Lieder Soile Isokoski (soprano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski, conductor [ Ondine 20th Anniversary / CD - released 10/Jun/2004 ] "Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. I suspect that the composer him∆self‚ with his love of the soprano voice‚ would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing." (Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2002) |