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The Unknown Sibelius
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The Unknown Sibelius
Composers
Sibelius, Jean
Performers
Dominante Choir
Groop, Monica
Gräsbeck, Folke
Hynninen, Jorma
Juntunen, Helena
Kuusisto, Jaakko
Lasonpalo, Jyrki
Orphei Drängar (OD)
Otter, Anne Sofie von
Suovanen, Gabriel
Vikman, Laura
Orchestras / Ensembles
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Kamu, Okko
Sund, Robert
Vänskä, Osmo
Label
BIS
Catalogue number
BIS-2065 CD
Release date
2013-06-10
Discs
1
Orig. sample rate
96000Hz, 44100Hz
Total time
79:17
The Unknown Sibelius presents a spectrum of the music that is the least wide-spread of the Finnish master’s production, either because the pieces included belong to genres not usually associated with ‘Sibelius the symphonist’, or because they appear in versions that differ from the ones that are performed frequently all over the world.
A case in point is the opening Finland Awakes, a rarely heard version of what is possibly Sibelius’ best-known piece, Finlandia, in which the famous ‘hymn’ tune is restated in full, scored with unashamed flamboyance for brass, at the end of the piece.
That recording and others on this disc are culled from the complete SIBELIUS EDITION brought to a close in 2011 – but completeness is a relative concept: a ‘complete’ edition is only complete until the next mislaid manuscript or forgotten work is re-discovered. The present disc thus serves a dual purpose, as it also includes première recordings of works and fragments that have been discovered or otherwise have become available after the EDITION was brought to a close.
Among these, the late orchestral fragments earned a certain celebrity in October 2011, as media across the world greeted the discovery of what was soon proclaimed to be sketches for the famed 8th Symphony – that elusive Holy Grail of all Sibelius-spotters.
Dr. Timo Virtanen, the respected authority on Sibelius, has prepared the sketches for the present recording and also written a text – available on the BIS web site – discussing them and the context in which they may have been written. If the orchestral fragments generally tend towards the harmonically bold sound world that Sibelius explored in some of his very late works, the three piano pieces that have also come to recent light are earlier works which all in different ways are connected to other compositions by Sibelius.
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Composer: Sibelius, Jean
01
Finland Awakes (1899?)
08:27
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02
The Oceanides, Op. 73 (1914 – Yale version)
07:25
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03
Jag kysser dig [och ledsnar] ej (1889–91)
00:54
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04
Tule, tule kultani [Come, Come, My Sweetheart]
01:14
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05
Tanken [The Thought], JS 192 (1915)
01:29
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Italian Folk Song Arrangements, JS 99
04:46
06
Oje Carulì [Oh Caroline]
02:49
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07
Trippole trappole
01:57
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08
Fridolins dårskap [Fridolin’s Folly], JS 84
02:27
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09
Jone havsfärd [Jonah’s Voyage], JS 100
02:29
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10
Serenata, JS 169 (1887)
06:53
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Ödlan (The Lizard), Op. 8 (1909)
16:55
11
Scene No. 1. Adagio – Più adagio
02:43
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12
Scene No. 2. Grave – Adagio
14:12
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13
Andantino in D major for piano (1889)
02:54
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14
Impromptu in B minor for piano (c.1893)
07:12
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15
Adagio in E major for piano, JS 13 (1907)
01:50
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16
Adagio for piano four hands, JS 161 (1931)
04:29
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Four Orchestral Fragments (1930–57)
03:10
17
HUL 1325
01:19
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HUL 1326/9
00:18
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HUL 1326/10
00:24
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HUL 1327
01:09
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21
Processional, Op. 113 No. 6 (1927, orch. 1938)
03:41
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Album total
79:17
Composer
Sibelius, Jean
Conductor
Kamu, Okko
Murto, Seppo
Sund, Robert
Vänskä, Osmo
Orchestra
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Violin
Kuusisto, Jaakko
Lasonpalo, Jyrki
Vikman, Laura
Cello
Turunen, Taneli
Viola
Gribajcevic, Anna Kreetta
Double bass
Munter, Eero
Piano
Forsberg, Bengt
Gräsbeck, Folke
Lönnqvist, Peter
Soprano
Juntunen, Helena
Baritone
Hynninen, Jorma
Suovanen, Gabriel
Mezzo soprano
Groop, Monica
Otter, Anne Sofie von
Choir
Dominante Choir
Orphei Drängar
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