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Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 w/Oslo Philharm.

Following their highly acclaimed cycle of the complete Sibelius symphonies, Decca Classics is thrilled to announce the release of Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5, & 6 with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic. To celebrate the release, the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä launch their 5th season with a special concert featuring Symphony No. 5, a work that has been central to Mäkelä and the orchestra’s repertoire since they first performed it in November 2019, before he began as Chief Conductor. The Oslo Phiharmonic then take Shostakovich’s Fifth to the Salzburg Festival on 21 August, marking Klaus Mäkela’s Salzburg debut and the orchestra’s first return to the festival since its historic concert with Mariss Jansons in 2000. They also perform Shostkakovich’s Fifth at the Musikfest Berlin on 1 September.
 

Klaus Makela:

Stravinsky - Orchestre de Paris

Klaus Mäkelä, the first conductor signed to Decca for forty years, brings the Orchestre de Paris to the label for a major new album of Stravinsky’s most iconic ballet scores. The album represents Mäkelä’s first recording with his French orchestra, which will be followed by a further Ballet Russes release in 2024 featuring Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Debussy’s Jeux and L’Apres midi d’une faune.

Klaus Mäkelä has electrified the musicians and audiences of the Orchestre de Paris since the start of his Music Directorship in September 2021. One of the major projects of his second season at the Philharmonie de Paris was a traversal of Stravinsky’s pivotal ballet scores The Firebird and The Rite of Spring that proved anything but routine. The performances captured live on Decca’s new release carry the combination of intensity, intelligence and authority on which the young conductor is building his extraordinary career.

Klaus Makela:

Sibelius w/Oslo Philharmonic

On 25 March, Decca Classics will release Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s debut album Sibelius, a complete cycle of the Jean Sibelius’s symphonies, plus the tone poem Tapiola and 3 Late Fragments. Mäkelä, who recently became the first conductor to sign to Decca since Riccardo Chailly, directs the Oslo Philharmonic, an orchestra with a deep, historic connection to the music of the Finnish composer. 

The project began as a nine-month exploration of the Sibelius symphonies to mark Mäkelä’s inaugural season with the Oslo Philharmonic as Chief Conductor but, with Covid cancellations, turned into a completely immersive recording project. With the orchestral season disrupted, Mäkelä and the orchestra devoted much of the Spring of 2021 to playing nothing but the music of Sibelius. Says Mäkelä, ‘We played, played, played and then recorded. Sibelius’s music, like that of any composer, is a language you have to learn and the circumstances under which we recorded actually played to our advantage.’