This page lists all recordings of Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82, by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) on SACD. Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
“Mature wisdom and beautiful playing from the LSO” The Times, 10th May 2013 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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BIS present a new recording of Jean Sibelius’s Symphonies 2 and 5 from the Minnesota Orchestra and their Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä. Beginning in the early 1990s, seminal recordings with Vänskä and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra of tone poems and the seven symphonies stood at the forefront of a new interpretative approach to the composer’s music. Vänskä’s recordings of Sibelius over the past 20 years form the backbone of the label’s newly completed Sibelius Edition. This disc with the Minnesota Orchestra follows an acclaimed cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies, and most recently a recording of Bruckner’s Fourth (‘Romantic’) Symphony. The Sibelius expert Robert Layton presents the Second Symphony as ‘the symphony by which many music lovers find their way to Sibelius’, and quotes the composer in a comment about symphonic form: ‘a river with innumerable tributaries feeding it before it broadens majestically and flows into the sea’. “[the Minnesota's] sound is huge and polished with rich strings, flaring brass and mellow winds, clearly recorded in first-rate SACD surround sound...[the Fifth] is fairly speedy, but well-paced and imaginatively phrased. The first movement's hollowed-out string passages beneath upfront woodwind make for typically atmospheric Vanska, while the concluding accelerations are obvious but impressive.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 **** “The sheer polish of the Minnesotans is a source of pleasure, but it was the voyage-of-discovery energy and temperament that made Vänskä’s work in Lahti so distinctive, defining a new age of Sibelius interpretation. Vänskä is now older: his Sibelius has become smoother and, yes, more conventional.” Financial Times, 18th February 2012 *** “So how do Nos 2 & 5 compare with their Lahti equivalents? They are every bit as compelling and intelligently realised...Vanska handles the opening movement's compound structure even better than before and the finale is just right, with irresistable forward momentum...Thore Brinkmann's superb sound reproduces with exceptional clarity every nuance of a finely balanced orchestral picture” Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 “Under Vänskä's leadership, the Minnesota Orchestra has moved into the top echelon of US bands. But these symphonies need a leaner, less self-regarding sound, while Vänskä's performances seem to have broadened and coarsened, too. There are some striking passages” The Guardian, 22nd March 2012 *** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Sibelius - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
Colin Davis is a renowned Sibelian and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have been particularly associated with the composers music for many years. Even though Davis has repeated the symphonic cycles on a number of occasions these performances from the mid 1970’s remain, in the opinion of many music lovers, his crowning glory. This stunning quadraphonic recording was made in the superb acoustics of Symphony Hall Boston in January 1975. Remastered Quadro Recording (RQR) “This Boston cycle has always been a personal favourite, despite his later, often more acclaimed LSO recordings… the Fifth's closing movement, for example, is splendidly vigorous and rhythmic… Davis's Seventh… opens more atmospherically than Ashkenazy's, and its concluding passages are much better defined... En Saga is also richly atmospheric in its own right...” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Sibelius - Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
“These remain performances of real stature, and those who like Sibelius with a warmer, Slavic slant need not hesitate. For SACD listeners the sound itself is a terrific draw.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ***** | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
| | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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