SIBELIUS Kuolema. King Christian
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Composer or Director: Jean Sibelius, Leif Segerstam
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Naxos
Magazine Review Date: 08/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 8 573299
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Overture |
Jean Sibelius, Composer
Jean Sibelius, Composer Leif Segerstam, Composer Turku Philharmonic Orchestra |
Kuolema, `Death', Movement: Complete Incidental Music |
Jean Sibelius, Composer
Jean Sibelius, Composer Leif Segerstam, Composer Turku Philharmonic Orchestra |
Twelfth Night, Movement: Come, away, death |
Jean Sibelius, Composer
Jean Sibelius, Composer Leif Segerstam, Composer Pia Pajala, Soprano Turku Philharmonic Orchestra |
Twelfth Night, Movement: Hey, Ho The wind and the rain |
Jean Sibelius, Composer
Jean Sibelius, Composer Leif Segerstam, Composer Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Waltteri Torikka, Baritone |
King Christian II, Movement: Complete Incidental Music |
Jean Sibelius, Composer
Jean Sibelius, Composer Leif Segerstam, Composer Turku Philharmonic Orchestra |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
In the six numbers that make up the 1903 score for Kuolema (a drama by the composer’s brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt) it’s fascinating to encounter the ubiquitous ‘Valse triste’ and extraordinarily plangent ‘Scene with Cranes’ (the latter posthumously numbered as Op 44 No 2) in their original context. Soprano Pia Pajala makes a heady thing of Elsa’s song ‘Eilaa, eilaa’, while Torikka’s lustrous timbre sent shivers down my spine in ‘Paavali’s Song’. The disc is filled out with the disappointingly thin Overture in A minor (hastily cobbled together for the March 1902 Helsinki concert that featured the world premiere of the Second Symphony) and Two Songs from Twelfth Night, a fetching diptych from 1909 comprising settings for baritone of ‘Come away, Death!’ and ‘Hey, ho, the wind and the rain’ (the latter heard in an orchestration by Kim Borg); suffice to say, Torikka is again in splendid voice, and Segerstam offers most attentive support. The engineering
is truthful throughout.
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