Sibelius
Thu, Oct 7 2010, 11:48PM
#2
RE: Sibelius
It's a pain when you've heard a particular moment in a piece that sounds exactly right, and thereafter those few bars become the thumbs up/down for every other performance you come across.
One of those moments for me is the piano entry in Brahms 1. Having heard Curzon do it, entering without fuss or pomp but with solid, quiet confidence, every other pianist has it wrong to my ears even though the rest of his performance isn't my favourite.
Sib 1 does sound a bit to Tchaikovskian to my ears now, nearly 50 years after first hearing it. But it also sounds unmistakeably Sibelian.
Sat, Oct 9 2010, 8:30AM
#3
RE: Sibelius
The Barbirolli 5th is indeed superb. It is now available on Testament (SBT1418) coupled with his RPO account of the second, also marvellous. I also have the EMI set, which I like very much except for the third, which has a rather slow and laboured first movement. This box of five discs is quite a bargain as it includes a considerable number of shorter works. The recordings, made in either Abbey Road or Kingsway Hall, are very good.
Fri, Nov 19 2010, 9:22PM
#4
RE: Sibelius
How about Adrian Leaper's versions of some of the symphonies on Arte Nova with the Orquestra Filharmonica de Gran Canaria? I think the performance of the fifth is particularly fine.
Fri, Nov 19 2010, 10:39PM
#5
RE: Sibelius
Your comparison strikes me as really funny. I had to chuckle when I read that.
Great to hear another fan of Rozhdestvensky - I've had them on LP since buying them in Moscow quite a while ago. I absolutely HATE Karajan in Sibelius - I used to live in Norway and these performances are so unidiomatic it sounds like he's racing through the tundra in a Porsche 911 with the heating on. Sibelius is the music of the forest and its murmurs, the wind, the depths of the fjords, the bleak white skies of winter, the flowers that brighten up Spring in the mountains. If you don't feel all that in your bones it may be food for the concert hall but it ain't Sibelius.
Wed, Apr 3 2013, 12:35PM
#6
RE: Sibelius
Hello, I am new to this - I am in the process of looking for Sibelius recordings that truly bring out what he was feeling at the time of writing.The choices I have are as follows:
Sir John Barbirolli - Sibelius Edition on EMI - Halle -
Herbert Von Karajan - Symphonies 4 - 7 on DG - Berliner PO
Okko Kamu - Symphony 2 on DG - Berliner
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