Sibelius: Incidental Music

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Release Date: 30th Jun 2014
Catalogue No: CHAN10828X
Label: Chandos
Series: Classics
Length: 79 minutes

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Sibelius: Pelléas and Mélisande Suite, Op. 46

Work length28:51

$9.00

$11.70

Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari
Recorded: 6-9 October 1992
Recording Venue: Haskolabio, Reykjavik, Iceland

I. At the Castle Gate

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

II. Melisande

Track length4:26

$1.00

$1.30

IIa. At the Seashore

Track length2:18

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III. A Spring in the Park

Track length2:20

$1.00

$1.30

IV. The 3 Blind Sisters

Track length2:36

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$1.30

V. Pastorale

Track length2:00

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Melisande and the Spinning Wheel

Track length2:04

$1.00

$1.30

VII. Entr'acte

Track length2:53

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$1.30

VIII. The Death of Melisande

Track length6:35

$1.00

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Sibelius: Swanwhite Suite, Op. 54

Work length19:04

$5.00

$6.50

Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari
Recorded: 6-9 October 1992
Recording Venue: Haskolabio, Reykjavik, Iceland

II. The Harp

Track length4:07

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$1.30

III. The Maidens with the Roses

Track length3:12

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$1.30

V. The Prince alone

Track length4:31

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$1.30

VI. Swanwhite and the Prince

Track length3:45

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$1.30

VII. Song of Praise

Track length3:29

$1.00

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Sibelius: King Kristian II, incidental music, Op. 27

Work length31:33

$8.00

$10.40

Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari
Recorded: 6-9 October 1992
Recording Venue: Haskolabio, Reykjavik, Iceland

I. Nocturne

Track length7:28

$2.00

$2.60

II. Elegie

Track length5:18

$1.00

$1.30

IIa. Musette

Track length2:17

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$1.30

III. Menuetto

Track length2:03

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$1.30

IV. Fool's Song of the Spider

Track length4:14

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$1.30

V. Serenade

Track length4:57

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Ballade

Track length5:16

$1.00

$1.30

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Appearing on the Chandos Classics label, this reissue features performances of incidental music by Jean Sibelius, recorded in 1992 by Petri Sakari and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. On its original release, the reviewer in Gramophone wrote: ‘I cannot remember having enjoyed this music more. Petri Sakari’s performance is totally unaffected, plain and full of enthusiasm; the players sound as if they are enjoying this score and communicate their pleasure.’ Sakari’s recordings with this orchestra during the 1990s made a significant contribution to the discography of Scandinavian music, notably of works by Grieg, Sibelius, and Madetoja.

Sibelius composed the score for King Christian II, a play by his friend Adolf Paul, in 1898 and it anticipates the richly romantic sound of the First Symphony. Here the usual suite is expanded by the inclusion of two movements from the incidental music not usually heard: the ‘Menuetto’ and ‘The Fool’s Song’.

Maurice Maeterlinck’s much-performed yet complex psychological drama Pelléas et Mélisande inspired works by Debussy, Fauré, Schoenberg, and Sibelius whose incidental music consists mainly of interludes in a uniquely dark, subdued, and typically Nordic vein.

Altogether sweeter is the delicate and poetic score for Swanwhite, August Strindberg ‘idealistic play of pure beauty’. Sibelius condensed the original music into a charming concert suite of seven movements, five of which are recorded here.

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