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Sibelius - Complete Piano Music, Vol.3

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Catalogue numberBIS-1272 CD
Release date2006-04-30
Discs1
Total time79:58

Previous releases in this series have consisted of Sibelius’s youth production from the years 1885-1889. Volumes 1 and 2 were both received with great interest by the critics. They were awarded 5 star reviews in BBC Music Magazine, while The Gramophone described the interpretations as 'committed readings that admirably capture the youthful appeal of this music.'
With the present disc we are crossing the threshold to Sibelius's career as a composer. Some of the works will be familiar to the general public, although maybe not in this form: the programme includes Sibelius’s own transcriptions from the Karelia Suite and The Wood-Nymph. But no less than 11 of the pieces are world première recordings, and several – including Marche Triste – have only come to light after the cataloguing of a donation of manuscripts to Helsinki University.

Folke Gräsbeck is an expert on the piano music and chamber works by Sibelius, and as such well represented in the BIS catalogue. In his exhaustive liner notes he places the present works within the context of Sibelius’s entire production during the years 1891-1903. Highly enjoyable in its own right, this programme provides invaluable insights to the Finnish master’s creative genius.
 
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  Composer: Sibelius, Jean
01 Menuetto in B flat major (preliminary version of Op.27 No.2) 02:42 $ 0.41 USD
 
02 Waltz in D flat major 02:12 $ 0.33 USD
 
  Six Impromptus, Op.5 18:02
03 I. Impromptu No.1 in G minor 01:53 $ 0.28 USD
04 II. Impromptu No.2 in G minor 01:51 $ 0.28 USD
05 III. Impromptu No.3 in A minor 02:33 $ 0.38 USD
06 IV. Impromptu No.4 in E minor 02:07 $ 0.32 USD
07 V. Impromptu No.5 in B minor 03:36 $ 0.54 USD
08 VI. Impromptu No.6 in E major 06:02 $ 0.91 USD
 
  from Karelia Suite, Op.11 09:46
09 I. Intermezzo 03:06 $ 0.47 USD
10 II. Ballade 06:40 $ 1.00 USD
 
  Sonata in F major, Op.12 16:45
11 I. Allegro molto 05:51 $ 0.88 USD
12 II. Andantino 06:54 $ 1.04 USD
13 III. Vivacissimo 04:00 $ 0.60 USD
 
14 from The Wood-Nymph (Skogsrået), Op.15 03:18 $ 0.50 USD
 
15 Allegretto in F major, JS 23 02:40 $ 0.40 USD
 
16 Caprizzio in B flat minor 02:10 $ 0.33 USD
 
17 Lento in E major, JS 119 03:22 $ 0.51 USD
 
18 Allegretto in G minor, JS 225 01:10 $ 0.18 USD
 
19 Caprice, Op.24 No.3 (first version) 01:59 $ 0.30 USD
 
20 Andantino in F major, Op.24 No.7 (first version) 03:34 $ 0.54 USD
 
21 Menuetto in B flat major 01:47 $ 0.27 USD
 
22 Marche triste, JS 124 05:31 $ 0.83 USD
 
23 Allegro in G minor 01:26 $ 0.22 USD
 
24 The Cavalier (Kavaljeren), JS 109 01:29 $ 0.22 USD
 
  Album total 79:58
PianoGrasbeck (Gräsbeck), Folke
ComposerSibelius, Jean

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