 
The Sibelius Edition - 8: Orchestral Works
BIS-CD-1921/23 (6 discs)
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NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 70'45"/79'07"/73'14"/70'56"/51'23"/75'04" - TT 420'29"
Tracks: 13+14+11+17+18+12
Booklet pages: 112
© 1984-2009 BIS Records AB
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of The Sibelius Edition - 8: Orchestral Works published on 15 October 2009
Johan (Jean) Christian Julius Sibelius (1865-1957):
CD1
1 Overture in E, JS 145 (1891)
Allegro - Molto vivace
2 Scène de ballet, JS 163 (1891)
Allegro moderato - Largamente - Molto vivace - L'istesso tempo - Presto
Karelia, JS115 (1893)
Scenic Music for a Festival and Lottery in Aid of Education in the province of Viipuri
(* - completed and reconstructed by Kalevi Aho, 1997)
3 Overture
Allegro moderato - Un poco lento - Tempo I - Un poco moderato - Tempo I - Un poco lento - Vivace
4 Tableau 1 - A Karelian home. News of War (1293)
[Alla vivo] - Più lento: 'Oi Ukko ylijumala ...'
Heikki Laitinen, folk singer
Tairo Hoffren, folk singer
5 Tableau 2 - The founding of Viipuri Castle (1293)
* Moderato assai - Vivace
Tableau 3 - Narimont, the Duke of Lithuania, levying taxes in the province of Käkisalmi (1333)
6 * Allegro
7 Intermezzo [I]. Moderato
8 Tableau 4 - Karl Knutsson in Viipuri Castle. Ballade (1446)
Tempo di menuetto non troppo lento
Raimo Laukka, baritone
Pertti Kuusi, horn
Tableau 5 - Pontus De La Gardie at the gates of Käkisalmi in 1580
9 * Moderato, ma non lento
10 Intermezzo [II]: Marsch nach einem alten Motif. Alla marcia ('Tableau 5½')
11 Tableau 6 - The siege of Viipuri (1710)
* Vivace
Tableaux 7/8 - The reunion of Old Finland [Karelia] with the rest of Finland (1811)
12 Andante ma non troppo lento - Allegro molto -
13 * Vivace molto - Più presto - Maestoso e largo [Maamme-laulu / The Finnish national anthem]
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
CD2
1 Karelia Overture Op 10 (1893)
Allegro moderato - Un poco lento - Tempo I - Un poco moderato - Tempo I - Un poco lento - Vivace
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Karelia Suite Op 11 (1893)
2 Intermezzo. Moderato
3 Ballade.Tempo di menuetto
Jukka Hirvikangas, cor anglais
4 Alla marcia. Moderato
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
5 Impromptu for string orchestra (1893, arranged 1894)
(arrangement of piano Impromptus Op 5 Nos 5 and 5)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
6 Presto for string orchestra (1889-90, arranged 1894)
(arangement of scherzo from String Quartet in B flat Op 4)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Musiikkia Sanomalehdistön päiven juhlanäytäntöön
Press Celebrations Music JS 137 (1899)
7 Preludio - Andante (ma non troppo)
8 Tableau 1 - Väinämöinen delights Nature, and the peoples of Kaleva and Pohjola, with his song
Allegro con moto - Largo - Tempo I - Più allegro - Più moto - Molto vivace
9 Tableau 2 - The Finns are baptised
Andante (ma non troppo lento)
10 Tableau 3 - Scene from Duke Johan's Court
Quasi tempo di menuetto
11 Tableau 4 - The Finns in the Thirty Years War (1618-48)
Tempo di menuetto - Allegro moderato - poco a poco più allegro - Allegro molto
12 Tableau 5 - The Great Hostility (1713-21)
Grave
13 Music played during the tableau
14 Tableau 6 - Finland Awakes
Allegro moderato - Allegro - Poco allegro - Un poco stretto
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
CD3
1 Menuetto JS 127 (1894)
2 Coronation March (1896)
from the Cantata for the Coronation of Nicholas II, JS 104
3 Porilaisten marssi (March of the Pori Regiment), JS 152
Arranged by Sibelius in 1900
4 Overture in A minor, JS 144 (1902)
Andante molto sostenuto - Allegro - Tempo I
5 Romance in C major for string orchestra, Op 42 (1904)
Andante - Un pochettino con moto - Tempo I
6 Cortège, JS 54 (1905)
Allegro moderato
7 Pan and Echo, Op 53 (1906)
Andante - Commodo
8 Grevinnans konterfej (The Countess' Portrait for string orchestra), JS 88 (1906)
Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra, Op 47 (1903-4, revised 1905 - published version)
9 Allegro moderato
10 Adagio di molto
11 Allegro, ma non tanto
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
CD4
Rakastava, Op 14 (1894/1911, revised 1912) for string orchestra, timpani and triangle
1 The Lover. Andante con moto
2 The Path of His Beloved. Allegretto
3 Good Evening! ... Farewell! Andantino - Doppio più lento - Lento assai
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin
Ilkka Pälli, cello
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Fragments from a Suite for Orchestra (1914) (Predecessor of The Oceanides)
4 Tempo moderato -
5 Allegro
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Two Serenades for violin and orchestra
6 No 1 in D, Op 69a (1912). Andante assai
7 No 2 in G minor, Op 69b (1913). Lento assai
Dong-Suk Kang, violin
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Two Serious Melodies, Op 77, for violin and orchestra
8 Cantique (Laetare anima mea) (1914). Moderato assai
9 Devotion (Ab imo pectore) (1915). Tempo molto moderato
Dong-Suk Kang, violin
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Six Humoresques for violin and orchestra
10 D minor, Op 87 No 1 (1917, revised 1940). Comodo
11 D major, Op 87 No 2 (1917). Allegro assai
12 G minor, Op 89a (1917). Alla gavotta
13 G minor, Op 89b (1917). Andantino
14 E flat major, Op 89c (1917). Comodo
15 G minor, Op 89d (1918). Allegro
Dong-Suk Kang, violin
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
16 Promootiomarssi (Academic March), JS 155 (1919). Andante con grandezza
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
17 Jääkärien marssi (March of the Finnish Jäger Battalion), Op 91a (1917, arranged 1918). Rasch
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
CD5
Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op 96
1 Valse lyrique (1919, orchestrated 1920). Poco moderato
2 Autrefois (1919, revised 1920). Allegretto
Tuulia Ylönen, clarinet
Matti Rouvali, clarinet
3 Valse chevaleresque (1921-22). Comodo
Suite mignonne, Op 98a (1921) for two flutes and string orchestra
4 Petite scène. Allegretto
5 Polka. Animoso
6 Épilogue. Vivace
Outi Viitaniemi, flute
Ilmo Joensivu, flute
Suite champêtre, Op 98b (1922) for string orchestra
7 Pièce caractéristique. Comodo
8 Mélodie élégiaque. Poco adagio
9 Danse. Allegretto (Jaakko Kuusisto, violin)
Suite caractéristique, Op 100 (1922) for harp and string orchestra
10 Vivo
11 Lento
12 Comodo
13 Morceau romantique, JS 135a (1925) sur un motif de Monsieur Jakob de Julin
Andantino - Agitato
Suite for violin and string orchestra, JS 185 (1929)
14 Country Scenery. Allegretto
15 Serenade. Evening in Spring. Andantino
16 In the Summer. Vivace
Dong-Suk Kang, violin
17 Andante festivo, JS34b (1922, orchestrated 1938) for string orchestra and timpani
18 Processional, Op 113 No 6 (1927, orchestrated 1938)
Largamente e maestoso
(first recording)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
CD6
Appendix: Preliminary/Alternative Versions
Karelia, JS 115 (1893)
Tableaux 7/8 with alternative version of Tableau 7
The reunion of Old Finland [Karelia] with the rest of Finland (1811)
Completed and reconstructed by Kalevi Aho (1997)
1 Moderato - Allegro molto -
2 Vivace molto - Più presto - Maestoso e largo
[Maamme laulu / the Finnish national anthem]
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
3 Impromptu for string orchestra (1893 - preliminary version)
(arrangement of piano Impromptu, Op 5 No 5)
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
(first recording)
Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra, Op 47 (1903-4 - original version)
4 Allegro moderato
5 Adagio di molto
6 Allegro, ma non tanto
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Rakastava, Op 14 (1894/1911 - Paris version) for string orchestra, timpani and triangle (first recording)
7 The Lover. Andante, ma non troppo lento
8 The Beloved. Allegretto
9 Good Evening ... Good Night! Andantino con moto - Con moto - Lento assai
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin
Ilkka Pälli, cello
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Two Serious Melodies, Op 77, for cello and orchestra
10 Cantique (Laetare anima mea) (1914). Moderato assai
11 Devotion (Ab imo pectore) (1915). Tempo molto moderato
Marko Ylönen, cello
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Six Humoresques for violin and orchestra
12 No 1 in D minor, Op 87 No 1 (1917 - original version). Comodo
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
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