Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7
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Composer: Jean SibeliusConductor: Osmo Vänskä
Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-10-01
Music Label: Bis
Soundtracks:
- Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: I. Allegro Molto Moderato
- Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: II. Allegretto Moderato
- Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: III. Poco Vivace
- Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: IV. Allegro Molto
- Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
- Tapiola, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 112
Free Music Notes for Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7
Free Music Review: The best performance of the late Sibelius around, but better to get the complete BIS box set
Hit: 5 Stars
As a classical music listener who usually prefers 1950s Darmstadt Modernism and after, I never thought myself especially likely to get into the symphonies of Jean Sibelius. After all, Sibelius held on to his Romantic idiom long after the cutting edge of new music had moved on to the musical impressionism of Debussy or the expressionism of the Second Viennese School. But upon discovering Sibelius' work, I was struck by how organic his music is, based on little cells which constantly develop in a fashion that looks much more ahead to later composers such as Per Norgard than back towards the tradition of angsty, bloated and fossilized Romantic symphonies. The Symphony No. 5 was the first in this bold new style, and its ecstatic unveiling of its "swan hymn" is gripping, but it is the last two symphonies which show a mastery of this form.
Of Sibelius' mature symphonies, the Sixth (1923) is the most airy and gentle. Delicate string textures and woodwinds open the work, sustaining a lovely pastel-coloured revery through the end of the first movement. The following three movements beef the music up with impulses of brass and percussion, but the efervescent core of the work is never entirely lost. This is probably my favourite of the late symphonies, and I can't believe that it is the least performed. With the Seventh (1924), Sibelius' organic way of composition had become so fluent that he was able to cast its entire 25-minute span in a single movement, where each rhythmic upset seems to be driven naturally by the previous. This is the most brass-heavy of the mature symphonies. "Tapiola" (1926) is a tone poem, but is often grouped with the symphonies because of its scope and technical achievements. I think it a rather frightening work, full of suspense and foreboding which is never broken by idyll like other Sibelius orchestral works.
The cycle recorded on BIS where Osmo Vanska leads the Lahti Symphony Orchestra is, in my opinion, the best around. Not only are the performances flawless and informed by Sibelius' own Nordic tradition, but the sound quality is superb. However, instead of buying these individual discs, it's much more economical to simply get the later BIS release with all the symphonies and "Tapiola" together on four discs.
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