Sibelius Edition Vol.5: Theatre Music

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD191214

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th July 2008

Artists

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Osmo Vanska
Neeme Jarvi
Jaakko Kuusisto
Jorma Panula

Artists

Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Osmo Vanska
Neeme Jarvi
Jaakko Kuusisto
Jorma Panula

About

Incidental music for the theatre is a genre in which Sibelius’ outstanding abilities as a composer of large canvases for orchestra were combined with his equally well-honed talent for writing concise, sharply characterized portraits of characters or scenes. This volume of the Sibelius Edition focuses on the orchestral music that he wrote for plays and includes both the complete theatrical scores and the suites that the composer in several cases put together from these.

Volume five in this acclaimed Sibelius Edition series includes the world première recordings of the Preliminary sketch for No.9 from Svanevit & Canon from Suite No.1 (1927 version) from The Tempest. Other previously unreleased recordings are Valse triste and Scene with Crane from Kuolema.

Among the plays given the Sibelius treatment are works by famous as well as less familiar authors: from Shakespeare, Strindberg and Maeterlinck to the composer’s brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt. It was for a production of Järnefelt’s drama Kuolema (‘Death’) that Sibelius wrote one of his first scores in 1903 for the theatre – a score which included a Tempo di valse lente that would soon make its triumphant course around the world under the title Valse triste.

Contents:
- Kung Kristian II (King Christian II) [Adolf Paul], Op.27: Original theatre music* and concert suite**
- Kuolema (Death) [Arvid Järnefelt]: Original theatre music, JS113*, Valse triste & Scene with Cranes, Op.44*
- Canzonetta & Valse romantique, Op.62**
- Pelléas och Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) [Maurice Mæterlinck]: Original theatre music, JS147* and concert suite, Op.46**
- Belsazars gästabud (Belshazzar’s Feast) [Hjalmar Procopé]: Original theatre music, JS48, and concert suite, Op.51**
- Svanevit (Swanwhite) [August Strindberg]: Preliminary sketch for No.9***, original theatre music* and concert suite**
- Twelfth Night [William Shakespeare], Op.60: Kom nu hit, död (Come Away, Death)****
- Die Sprache der Vögel (The Language of the Birds) [Adolf Paul]: Wedding March (Act III), JS62
- Scaramouche, Op.71 [Poul Knudsen and Mikael Trepka Bloch]
- Jokamies (Jedermann), Op.83 [Hugo von Hofmannsthal]
- The Tempest [William Shakespeare], Op.109: Original theatre music*, Canon from Suite No.1 (1927 version)*, Prelude and concert suites

* Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
** Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Järvi
*** Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Jaakko Kuusisto
**** Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Jorma Panula

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