Showing posts with label Jean Sibelius. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean Sibelius. Show all posts
August 14, 2014
July 20, 2014
Sibelius, sinfonia nro. 5
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Sibelius, sinfonia nro. 5 Es duuri opus 82, Herbert von
Karajan, Berliinin filharmonikot
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Jean Sibeliuksen
sinfonia nro 5 Es-duuri op. 82 on vuonna 1919 valmistunut
kolmiosainen teos sinfoniaorkesterille.
Sinfonia on yleisilmeeltään valoisa ja luonnonläheinen ja siten täydellinen
vastakohta Sibeliuksen neljännen sinfonian introverttisuudelle.
Sibeliuksen
itsekritiikki alkoi kuitenkin kasvaa, ja teoksen luomisprosessi oli tuskallinen.
Säveltäjä laati teoksesta kolme eri versiota. Ensimmäinen versio valmistui
vuonna 1915. Sibelius johti version kantaesityksen 50-vuotisjuhlillaan 8. elokuuta[1]. Toinen
versio valmistui vuonna 1916. Sibelius johti lopullisen version kantaesityksen
24. marraskuuta 1919.
Ensimmäisen levytyksen sinfoniasta tekivät Robert Kajanus ja
Lontoon sinfoniaorkesteri vuonna 1932. Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri soitti teosta Helsingissä Sibeliuksen kuollessa.
Yleisradio radioi konsertin. [wikipedia]
Viidennen sinfonian näennäisestä tyylillisestä
ongelmattomuudesta huolimatta säveltäjä ei tinkinyt epäsovinnaisuuden
tarpeestaan. Ensimmäinen osa alkaa raukeana ja pastoraalisena, mutta
keskivaiheilla päädytään lähes hätkähdyttävän modernilta kuulostavaan, jopa
György Ligetin
kenttätekniikan mieleen tuovaan taitteeseen. Viidettä sinfoniaa pidetään
ainutlaatuisena muotorakenteellisista ratkaisuistaan: ensimmäinen ja nopea
toinen osa ovat mestarillisesti yhteen sulautettuja. Finaalissa kuullaan
yksinkertaisuudessaan nerokas käyrätorvien keinuva
teema, joka huipentaa
sinfonian
suurenmoisella tavalla. Teoksen loppusivuilla Sibelius tarjoaa yllätyksen.
Tavanomaisen koodan sijasta 5.
sinfonia päättyy täyden sinfoniaorkesterin
kuuteen painokkaaseen, tauoilla erotettuun sointuun, jotka
kaikuvat kuin avaruuden keskeltä. [wikipedia]
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May 8, 2013
Tuonelan joutsen
Jean Sibelius,The Swan of Tuonela (Tuonelan joutsen),
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
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Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
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April 26, 2013
Pohjolan tytär
The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Leif Segerstam, conductor.
Op. 49 Pohjola's Daugter tytär (Pohjolan tytär), symphonic fantasy. Completed in 1906; first public performance in St Petersburg, 29th December 1906 (Orchestra of the Marinsky Theatre under Jean Sibelius).
Pohjola's Daughter is one of Sibelius's most popular symphonic poems. It was not until the late 1990s that scholars were able to work out the complicated stages of its composition.
The difficulties were caused by several intertwining ideas and projects that were going on at the same time. One of these comprised the "Daughter of Nature" material. Another project was the third symphony, and a third was Night Ride and Sunrise. A fourth project consisted of the sketches to In memoriam and a fifth the oratorio . Marjatta, which Sibelius was planning on the basis of Jalmari Finne's libretto, starting from June 1905. Finne wrote enthusiastically about this project:
"Sibelius talked about music in such a beautiful way. He also said: 'Music is for me like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.'"
The mosaic metaphor is apt. Without knowing it, Sibelius was unknowingly already composing Pohjola's Daughter, but initially he called the earliest form of the work "Luonnotar" (Daughter of Nature). This is not the Luonnotar we know from 1913, which is why it is customary to write about the earlier project using quotes. It is not surprising that the Marjatta and Luonnotar ideas were equally fascinating to Sibelius. The female figures are mythologically very close to each other. Marjatta gives birth to the Saviour, Luonnotar to the world.
Leif Segerstam, conductor.
Op. 49 Pohjola's Daugter tytär (Pohjolan tytär), symphonic fantasy. Completed in 1906; first public performance in St Petersburg, 29th December 1906 (Orchestra of the Marinsky Theatre under Jean Sibelius).
Pohjola's Daughter is one of Sibelius's most popular symphonic poems. It was not until the late 1990s that scholars were able to work out the complicated stages of its composition.
The difficulties were caused by several intertwining ideas and projects that were going on at the same time. One of these comprised the "Daughter of Nature" material. Another project was the third symphony, and a third was Night Ride and Sunrise. A fourth project consisted of the sketches to In memoriam and a fifth the oratorio . Marjatta, which Sibelius was planning on the basis of Jalmari Finne's libretto, starting from June 1905. Finne wrote enthusiastically about this project:
"Sibelius talked about music in such a beautiful way. He also said: 'Music is for me like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.'"
The mosaic metaphor is apt. Without knowing it, Sibelius was unknowingly already composing Pohjola's Daughter, but initially he called the earliest form of the work "Luonnotar" (Daughter of Nature). This is not the Luonnotar we know from 1913, which is why it is customary to write about the earlier project using quotes. It is not surprising that the Marjatta and Luonnotar ideas were equally fascinating to Sibelius. The female figures are mythologically very close to each other. Marjatta gives birth to the Saviour, Luonnotar to the world.
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April 22, 2013
'On metsät Pohjolassa sankat, tummat/ ne ikisalat, haaveet hurjat loi/ asunnot Tapion on siellä kummat/ haltiat väikkyy, hämyn äänet soi'
Jean Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola (1926). Paavo Berglund
(1929--2012) conducts the Finnish RSO in 1992.
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The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor.
Leif Segerstam, conductor.
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Sibelius, Tapiola, Neeme Järvi [DGG]
Sibelius' powerful landscape of cool waters, endlessly
forests and massive rock formations in a mighty composition on one single theme,
with completely new sounds. This must be one of the best compositions for
the Symphony Orchestra ever made. The shots are taken from the film Sibelius
- the early years, but I've edited them in a completely different
matter.
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Jean Sibelius : Tapiola, op. 112, Tone-poem, Berliner
Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, direction.
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Sibelius, Tapiola, Adrian Boult [LPO]
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Sibelius : Tapiola, Op. 112Sir Thomas Beecham (Conductor)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Rec.1946) Public Domain
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April 19, 2013
‘Lucus a non lucendo’
Symphony No.4 in A minor, op.63
Sir Colin Davis
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Herkulessaal, München, 17 11/2006
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The Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63, is one of seven completed symphonies composed by Jean Sibelius. Written between 1910 and 1911, it was premiered in Helsinki on 3 April 1911 by the Philharmonia Society, with Sibelius conducting.
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The work comprises four movements:
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According to the biographer Erik W. Tawaststjerna, the Symphony reflects the psychoanalytical and introspective era when Sigmund Freud and Henri Bergson stressed the meaning of the unconscious, and he calls the Fourth Symphony "one of the most remarkable documents of the psychoanalytical era." Even Sibelius himself called his composition "a psychological symphony" His brother, the psychiatrist Christian Sibelius (1869–1922), was one of the first scholars to discuss psychoanalysis in Finland.
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In the year before beginning the symphony, Sibelius had met many of his contemporaries in central Europe, including Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and others; his encounter with their music provoked a crisis in his own compositional life. He said in a letter to his friend (and biographer) Rosa Newmarch about the symphony: "It stands as a protest against present-day music. It has absolutely nothing of the circus about it." Later, when asked about the symphony, he quoted August Strindberg: "Det är synd om människorna" (One feels pity for human beings).
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The symphony briefly had a nickname, "Lucus a non lucendo".
The Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63, is one of seven completed symphonies composed by Jean Sibelius. Written between 1910 and 1911, it was premiered in Helsinki on 3 April 1911 by the Philharmonia Society, with Sibelius conducting.
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The work comprises four movements:
- I. Tempo molto moderato, quasi adagio
- II. Allegro molto vivace
- III. Il tempo largo
- IV. Allegro
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- [......]
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According to the biographer Erik W. Tawaststjerna, the Symphony reflects the psychoanalytical and introspective era when Sigmund Freud and Henri Bergson stressed the meaning of the unconscious, and he calls the Fourth Symphony "one of the most remarkable documents of the psychoanalytical era." Even Sibelius himself called his composition "a psychological symphony" His brother, the psychiatrist Christian Sibelius (1869–1922), was one of the first scholars to discuss psychoanalysis in Finland.
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In the year before beginning the symphony, Sibelius had met many of his contemporaries in central Europe, including Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and others; his encounter with their music provoked a crisis in his own compositional life. He said in a letter to his friend (and biographer) Rosa Newmarch about the symphony: "It stands as a protest against present-day music. It has absolutely nothing of the circus about it." Later, when asked about the symphony, he quoted August Strindberg: "Det är synd om människorna" (One feels pity for human beings).
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The symphony briefly had a nickname, "Lucus a non lucendo".
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July 28, 2012
Kaksi Tapiolaa, yksi Meri
Claude Debussy: La mer, kolme sinfonista hahmotelmaa orkesterille [1903-1905].
Melko usein on todettu Sibeliuksen Tapiolan olevan metsälle samaa, kuin mitä Debussyn La mer on merelle.
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Wood-sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets
Sibeliuksen musiikin englantilainen esitaistelija Cecil Gray sanoi Tapiolasta: 'Vaikka Sibelius ei olisi kirjoittanut mitään muuta, tämä teos riittäisi sijoittamaan hänet kaikkien aikojen suurimpien mestareiden joukkoon.'*
Jean Sibeliuksen orkesterirunoelmat huipentuvat Tapiolaan vuonna 1926. Kyseessä on Sibeliuksen viimeinen mestariteos orkesterille. Hän lähettäisi vielä elokuussa 1927 Myrsky-näyttämömusiikista tehdyt sarjat kustantajalle, mutta sarjat eivät enää vastaa alkuperäisen näyttämömusiikin herättämiä odotuksia. Sen sijaan Tapiola on Sibeliuksen omaperäisimpiä ja taidokkaimpia mestariteoksia, koko 1900-luvun fantastisimpia sävellyksiä.
Op. 112 Tapiola, sävelruno. Valmistui 1926; kantaesitys New Yorkissa 26.12.1926 (New York Symphonic Society, johtajana Walter Damrosch).
It was premiered by the New York Symphonic Society on 26 December 1926.[1]
When asked by the publisher to clarify the work's program, Sibelius responded by supplying a quatrain:
"Widespread they stand, the Northland's dusky forests, Ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams; Within them dwells the Forest's mighty God, And wood-sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets."
Sibelius : Tapiola (1/2) (10.25)
Sibelius : Tapiola (2/2) (9.49)
Tapiola, op. 112 Tone-poem, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, direction.
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Sibelius - Tapiola (1/2) (10:19)
Tapiola, op. 112 Tone-poem, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, direction.
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Sibelius - Tapiola (1/2) (10:19)
Sibelius - Tapiola (2/2) (7:50)
Tapiola opus 112 (1925) The London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult, Recorded in 1956
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Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius e
http://www.sibelius.fi/suomi/musiikki/ork_tapiola.htm
Tapiola (Sibelius)
Tapiola (Sibelius) e
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http://ouxpo.blogspot.com/2007/12/sibelius-landscape.html
http://inkpot.com/classical/sib67tbis.html
http://www.lovevinyl.de/tag/classic/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/pip/ftng8/
Tapiola opus 112 (1925) The London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult, Recorded in 1956
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Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius e
http://www.sibelius.fi/suomi/musiikki/ork_tapiola.htm
Tapiola (Sibelius)
Tapiola (Sibelius) e
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http://ouxpo.blogspot.com/2007/12/sibelius-landscape.html
http://inkpot.com/classical/sib67tbis.html
http://www.lovevinyl.de/tag/classic/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/pip/ftng8/
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