Sibelius Symphony No. 7 discography
This article aims to include information on all recordings of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony that have ever been available to the public.
| Year of recording |
Conductor |
Orchestra |
Label(s) |
References |
| 1933 |
Serge Koussevitzky[1] |
BBC Symphony Orchestra |
Naxos, EMI, Biddulph, Pearl |
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| 1940 |
Leopold Stokowski |
All American Youth Orchestra |
Music and Arts |
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| 1942 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra |
Dutton Vocalion, Sony Classical |
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| 1942 |
Vladimir Golschmann |
St Louis Symphony Orchestra |
Dante Lys |
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| 1944 |
Eugen Jochum |
Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra |
Dante Lys |
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| 1949 |
John Barbirolli |
Hallé Orchestra |
Dutton |
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| 1950 |
Paul van Kempen |
Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilversum) |
Telefunken |
| 1952 |
Sixten Ehrling |
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra |
Finlandia |
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| c. 1953 |
"Antero Saike" (suspected to be a pseudonym for Nils-Eric Fougstedt) |
"Symphony Orchestra of Olympia" (suspected to be a pseudonym for the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra) |
Allegro |
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| 1954 |
Anthony Collins |
London Symphony Orchestra |
Beulah |
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| 1954 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra |
Ondine |
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| 1954 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
BBC Legends |
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| 1955 |
Herbert von Karajan |
Philharmonia |
EMI |
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| 1955 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
EMI |
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| 1960 |
Eugene Ormandy |
Philadelphia Orchestra[1] |
Sony Classical |
, |
| 1962 |
Gennady Rozhdestvensky |
USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra |
Yedang Classics |
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| 1962 |
Akeo Watanabe |
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra |
Denon, Epic |
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| 1963 |
Adrian Boult |
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
BBC Legends |
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| 1965 |
Yevgeny Mravinsky |
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra |
BMG/Melodiya |
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| 1965 |
George Szell |
Cleveland Orchestra |
Cleveland Orchestra |
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| 1960/65 |
Leonard Bernstein[1] |
New York Philharmonic |
Sony Classical |
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| 1966 |
Lorin Maazel |
Vienna Philharmonic |
Decca |
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| 1967 |
Sir John Barbirolli |
Hallé Orchestra |
EMI |
, |
| 1967 |
Herbert von Karajan |
Berlin Philharmonic[2] |
Deutsche Grammophon |
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| 1969 |
Carl von Garaguly |
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra |
Berlin Classics |
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| 1973 |
Paavo Berglund |
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra |
Disky |
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| 1974 |
Kurt Sanderling[1] |
Berlin Symphony Orchestra |
Brilliant Classics |
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| 1975 |
Colin Davis |
Boston Symphony Orchestra[1] |
Philips |
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| 1975 |
Eugene Ormandy |
Philadelphia Orchestra |
RCA (Japan) |
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| 1977 |
Maurice Abravanel |
Utah Symphony Orchestra |
Vanguard Classics |
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| 1977 |
Yevgeny Mravinsky |
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra |
Altus |
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| 1981 |
Akeo Watanabe |
Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra |
Denon |
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| 1982 |
Akeo Watanabe |
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra |
TDK |
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| 1983 |
Vladimir Ashkenazy[1] |
Philharmonia |
Decca |
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| 1983 |
Alexander Gibson |
Scottish National Orchestra |
Chandos |
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| 1984 |
Paavo Berglund |
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra |
EMI |
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| 1985 |
Neeme Järvi[1] |
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra |
BIS |
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| 1985 |
Simon Rattle |
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
EMI |
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| 1988 |
Leonard Bernstein |
Vienna Philharmonic |
Deutsche Grammophon |
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| 1989 |
Jukka-Pekka Saraste |
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
RCA Victor |
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| 1990 |
Adrian Leaper |
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
Naxos |
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| 1992 |
Lorin Maazel |
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra |
Sony Classical |
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| 1992 |
Leif Segerstam |
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra |
Chandos |
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| 1993 |
Jukka-Pekka Saraste |
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
Finlandia |
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| 1993 |
Herbert Blomstedt |
San Francisco Symphony |
Decca |
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| 1994 |
Sir Colin Davis |
London Symphony Orchestra[1] |
RCA Victor |
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| 1994 |
Okko Kamu |
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra |
Classico |
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| 1996 |
Paavo Berglund |
Chamber Orchestra of Europe |
Finlandia |
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| 1997 |
Osmo Vänskä[1] |
Lahti Symphony Orchestra |
BIS |
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| 1999 |
Georg Tintner |
Symphony Nova Scotia |
Naxos |
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| 1999 or earlier |
Marek Janowski |
French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra |
Le Chant du Monde |
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| 2000 |
Petri Sakari |
Iceland Symphony Orchestra |
Naxos |
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| 2002 |
Leif Segerstam |
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra |
Ondine |
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| 2002 |
James DePreist |
Oregon Symphony Orchestra |
Delos |
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| 2003 |
Sakari Oramo |
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
Erato |
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| 2003 |
Neeme Järvi |
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra |
Deutsche Grammophon |
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| 2003 |
Sir Colin Davis |
London Symphony Orchestra |
LSO Live |
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| 2003 |
Paavo Berglund |
London Philharmonic Orchestra |
London Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| 2006 |
Leif Segerstam |
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
BBC Music Magazine |
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| 2009 |
Pietari Inkinen |
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra |
Naxos |
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| 2012 |
John Storgårds |
BBC Philharmonic |
Chandos |
, |
| 2013 |
Okko Kamu |
Lahti Symphony Orchestra |
BIS |
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| 2014 |
Thomas Søndergård |
BBC National Orchestra of Wales |
Linn Records |
, |
| 2015 |
Simon Rattle |
Berlin Philharmonic |
Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings |
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Notes
- ^ Booklet note for Yedang CD CT 10059
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Philip Haldeman, "Jean Sibelius" in Classical Music: The Listener's Companion ed. Alexander J. Morin (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2002), p. 870
- ↑ Abram Chipman, "Jean Sibelius" in The Twentieth High Fidelity Annual Records in Review ed. Edith Carter (Great Barrington: The Wyeth Press, 1975), pp. 396 - 398 "I will spare you descriptions of some of Karajan's questionable tempo relations in this highly unified one-movement work."
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