Osmo Vänskä is the Finnish conductor who first made his mark internationally in the last decade of the last millennium with his recordings of Finnish composer Sibelius. With the Finnish Lahti Symphony, Vänskä's Sibelius was a Finn's Sibelius: clear, lucid, light, luminous, muscular, and driven. Now with the new millennium, Vänskä has gone international with this recording of Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth symphonies, his first recording with the Minnesota Orchestra, and the start of a projected cycle of Beethoven's complete ...
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Osmo Vänskä is the Finnish conductor who first made his mark internationally in the last decade of the last millennium with his recordings of Finnish composer Sibelius. With the Finnish Lahti Symphony, Vänskä's Sibelius was a Finn's Sibelius: clear, lucid, light, luminous, muscular, and driven. Now with the new millennium, Vänskä has gone international with this recording of Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth symphonies, his first recording with the Minnesota Orchestra, and the start of a projected cycle of Beethoven's complete symphonies.Vänskä's Beethoven is a Finn's Beethoven. His Beethoven's Fourth is as light and luminous as his Sibelius' Sixth and his Beethoven's Fifth is as clear and lucid as his Sibelius' Fifth. But Vänskä is also Vänskä and his Beethoven is also muscular and driven. The strength of his sforzandos and force of his fortissimos is enormous and the drive of his Allegros and especially his Allegro con brios is immense.Vänskä's Beethoven is not a lyrical or a meditative Beethoven. The...
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