Sibelius - Lemminkainen Suite, Spring Song, Suite from ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN20136
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd June 2019
Contents
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraConductor
Sakari OramoWorks
Belshazzar's Feast: Suite, op.51Lemminkainen Suite, op.22
Spring Song, op.16
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraConductor
Sakari OramoAbout
Sibelius’s ever-popular Lemminkäinen Suite is complemented here with the early Spring Song and the lesser-known Suite from Belshazzar’s Feast.
Sibelius composed the Lemminkäinen Suite (also called the Four Legends, or Four Legends from the Kalevala), op.22 in the 1890s. Drawing on material originally conceived for a mythological opera, Veneen luominen (The Building of the Boat), the suite focuses on the character Lemminkäinen from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.
In 1906 Sibelius composed ten numbers of incidental music for the play Belshazzar’s Feast (by Hjalmar Procopé), which was first performed in the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki in November of that year, the composer conducting. The following year, Sibelius extracted four of the movements to form the more widely known orchestral suite that we hear in this recording.
Reviews
Sakari Oramo has recorded precious little Sibelius since his time in Birmingham but don’t think the repertoire on this disc constitutes anything less than a mighty statement. We have Sibelius in three different but vital modes – linguistic cornerstones, even – on which the BBC Symphony’s chief conductor brings deep insights to bear. ... Having just chosen my preferred recording of the [Lemminkäinen] suite for BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library (Paavo Järvi), there is no doubting this would have been a serious contender and at the very least an ‘also recommended’. Andrew Mellor
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