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Sibelius - Lemminkäinen Suite & The Wood Nymph

Composer Jean Sibelius
Performer Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Period Romantic
Catalogue Number BIS-1745 SACD
EAN 7318599917450
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Apr 2014
Total time 69'37


Jean Sibelius is best known for his seven symphonies and violin concerto – two genres usually thought of as ‘absolute music’. But in 1894, well before he composed his first symphony, Sibelius described himself in quite different terms: ‘really I am a tone painter and poet’. It was around this time that he was working on the two works presented here, both tone poems which spring from an extra-musical inspiration. The source of the LemminkäRead more
 
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  Jean Sibelius
  Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22 46'40
01 I. Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island 14'59
02 II. The Swan of Tuonela 9'10
03 III. Lemminkäinen in Tuonela 16'07
04 IV. Lemminkäinen’s Return 6'24
 
05 Skogsrået (The Wood-Nymph), Op.15 21'37
 
  Album total 69'37
ComposerSibelius, Jean
OrchestraLahti Symphony Orchestra
ConductorVänskä, Osmo

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