Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
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Orchestral » Symphonies
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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphony No.1 & En Saga
RecommendedGothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Rouvali’s pacing, for the most part, feels instinctively ‘right’…The recording in Gothenburg’s wood-lined Concert Hall offers sonorous, yet clear lower textures, and if the high strings and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Most Finnish greats have recorded cycles of Sibelius symphonies at least once...Who’d have predicted that this latest, from Klaus Mäkelä at the helm of the Oslo Philharmonic would be the most... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Orchestral
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It may sound like faint praise to describe these as 'well-managed' performances, but to shape and steer all Seven Symphonies convincingly is no mean feat. When it comes to overview and attention... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Orchestral
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Kamu offers an [easy] sense of movement… intense quiet dynamics and clarity in perfect equilibrium with atmosphere. There's plenty of excitement too: the scherzo of the Second is truly vivacissimo…Three,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th November 2015
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Sibelius: Complete Symphonies & Tone Poems
RecommendedLaurence Thorstenberg, Salvatore Accardo (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Building a Library, September 2013, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7
Monica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Building a Library, May 2002, First Choice
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They are big-boned, muscular accounts, magnificently played in all departments...the brooding Fourth best suits the Berliners’ dark sound; and the Third is surprisingly lithe and sprightly. — More…
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Hughes gives us a very direct performance of [No.1], free of any interpretative exaggeration. The playing of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is first class in all departments...Hughes’s account... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7
RecommendedMonica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
The mature Davis has a way with the music’s architecture like few other conductors. The pace of the expansive Second and Fifth Symphonies is masterful. Combined with the innate warmth and pretty... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2012, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2013, First Choice
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