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“Another Sibelius CD of exceptional interest and fascination from Lahti and Osmo Vänskä in the BIS complete survey. Impressive playing throughout an excellent recording.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2006 ***** “The centrepiece of this fine collection is a reconstruction of Lemminkäinen in Tuonela as it sounded at the April 1896 Helsinki premiere.
When Sibelius reworked the score in 1939, he excised at least 108 bars, including an impressive 32-bar introduction and a hefty chunk of the ghostly A minor central episode.
Annotator Andrew Barnett tells us that the Op 77 Two Serious Melodies, for violin and orchestra, were first heard in March 1916 in Sibelius's arrangement for cello. Soloist Marko Ylönen is a rapt proponent of this headily lovely diptych, while the Lahti SO's leader Jaakko Kuusisto is a model of sensitive agility in the first version (from 1917) of the enchanting Humoresque No 1 in D minor.
The Three Pieces contain a fetching 18th-century pastiche, 'Autrefois', which incorporates a setting for soprano and contralto of a poem by Hjalmar Procopé. Bookending the programme are the original and revised versions (from 1909 and 1910 respectively) of the funeral march In memoriam, a stark yet noble (and at times intriguingly Mahlerian) processional to remind us that the uncompromising Fourth Symphony was not far off.
Vänskä and his bright-eyed Lahti band are on irreproachable form, and the BIS production crews have come up trumps once again with resplendently natural sound.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The Sibelius Edition Volume 1 - Tone Poems
Sibelius: | En Saga, Op. 9 original and final versions Spring Song, Op. 16 The Wood-Nymph (Skogsrået), Op. 15 Improvisation/Spring Song [Op. 16] Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22 also includes original versions of Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island, Lemminkäinen in Tuonela and Lemminkäinen’s Return, and intermediate version of Lemminkäinen’s Return Cassazione, Op. 6 original and final versions Finland Awakes (1899) Finlandia, Op. 26 Musik zu Einer Scène Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 Dance Intermezzo, Op. 45 No. 2 Night Ride and Sunrise, Op. 55 In memorian, Op. 59 - Trauermarsch für Orchester original and final versions The Dryad, Op. 45 No. 1 Scènes historiques, Set I, Op. 25 Scènes historiques (Suite No. 2) The Bard, Op. 64 Luonnotar, Op. 70 (Text: Kalevala) The Oceanides, Op. 73 original [Yale] and final versions Tapiola, Op. 112 |
Please note: Previously unreleased recordings included in this box are The Wood-Nymph, Op. 15, and Spring Song, Op. 16, made in 2006 and 2007. Other recordings have been taken from the following discs: BIS-CD-800, 864, 1015, 1115, 1125, 1225, 1445, 1485, 1565 (Lahti SO / Vänskä); BIS-CD-295 and 448 (Gothenburg SO / Järvi) “To hear Osmo Vänskä conducting Jean Sibelius is to change one's view of the music.” Financial Times | | | (also available to download from $38.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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