Welcome to the second part of our exploration of the life and music of Jean Sibelius, presented by Wise Music Group Creative Director Gill Graham and award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Stephen Johnson. Featuring excerpts of the great Finnish composer’s work, the conversation explores:
- how - and why - he stopped writing
- the music he composed for theatrical productions including the first Danish staging of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- how he designed his symphonies and tone poems to be interpreted in different ways
- Lemminkäinen Suite’s delicate, masterful balance as half- symphony, half- tone poem
- the unique way in which Sibelius’ symphonic palette was able to evoke nature in all its magnificence and subtlety
Musical Excerpts:
- Sibelius The Tempest, Op. 109 - Overture, The Ship Sinks Beneath The Waves - Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
- Sibelius The Tempest - 2. The Oak Tree - Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française / Thomas Beecham
- Sibelius En Saga, Op. 9 - Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
- Sibelius Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22 - The Swan Of Tuonela - Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
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