Horst Stein - The Sibelius Recordings - Eloquence: ELQ4823922 - 3 CDs

well-wrought performances […] the finest thing on this disc is to my mind Pohjola’s Daughter of which Mr. Stein gives a powerful and compelling account, and whose atmosphere and detail is excellently... — Gramophone Magazine, August 1972 More…

Release Date: 6th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: ELQ4823922
Label: Eloquence
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

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Excerpt, Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Work length23:56

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1981-10
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Allegretto - Poco allegro - Tranquillo, ma poco a poco ravvivando il tempo al allegro

Track length10:03

2. Tempo andante, ma rubato - Andante sostenuto

Track length13:53

Excerpt, Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Work length6:12

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1981-10
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

3. Vivacissimo - Lento e suave - Largamente

Track length6:12

Excerpt, Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Work length13:11

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1981-10
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

4. Finale (Allegro moderato)

Track length13:11

Sibelius: Nightride and Sunrise, Op. 55 (1909)

Work length14:31

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1971-06
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26

Work length8:14

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1971-06
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: Lemminkäinen and the Virgins from Saari

Work length15:42

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1980-01
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela (from Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22)

Work length7:23

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1980-01
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: Lemminkäinen in Tuonela

Work length13:51

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1980-01
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: Lemminkäinen's Return (from Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22)

Work length6:08

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1980-01
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: En Saga, Op. 9

Work length16:21

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1971-06-14
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49

Work length13:10

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1971-06-14
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande - Incidental Music to Maeterlinck's play, Op. 46 (1905)

Work length27:36

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1978-07-02
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. At The Castle Gate

Track length2:57

2. Mélisande

Track length4:07

3. At The Seashore

Track length2:01

4. A Spring In The Park

Track length2:02

5. The Three Blind Sisters

Track length2:36

6. Pastorale

Track length2:08

7. Mélisande At The Spinning Wheel

Track length2:07

8. Intermezzo

Track length2:38

9. The Death Of Mélisande

Track length7:00

Sibelius: The Tempest - Overture, Op. 109, No. 1

Work length5:07

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1978-07-02
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Sibelius: The Tempest - First Suite, Op. 109, No. 2

Work length20:01

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1978-07-02
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. The Oak Tree

Track length2:51

2. Humoreske

Track length1:02

3. Caliban's Song

Track length1:18

4. The Harvesters

Track length2:13

5. Canon

Track length1:27

6. Scene

Track length1:38

7. Intrada - Berceuse

Track length2:19

8. Entr'acte - Ariel's Song

Track length3:51

9. The Storm

Track length3:22

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To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius, Decca Eloquence collects together the four LPs of the composer’s music that Stein recorded for Decca between 1971 and 1981. They include all the important tone poems, the Second Symphony (receiving its first international release on CD) and music for the theatre. All were critically acclaimed in their time. Known in particular for his work in Bayreuth – he conducted 76 performances there between 1969 and 1986, Stein held principal positions with the Bamberg, Basel, NHK (Japan) and Suisse Romande Orchestras, and all his Sibelius recordings were made with this Swiss orchestra.

Reviews

August 1972

well-wrought performances […] the finest thing on this disc is to my mind Pohjola’s Daughter of which Mr. Stein gives a powerful and compelling account, and whose atmosphere and detail is excellently captured by the Decca engineers. […] Stein has a genuine feeling for Sibelius

August 1979

most vividly recorded […] Stein obviously has a genuine feeling for this music [Pelléas et Mélisande] […] [The Tempest] is most impressively played and recorded’ […] The recording is superb in both definition and range.

January 1981

the recording has thrilling presence and clarity […] ‘Leminkäinen’s Return’ is given an exciting hell-for-leather performance that holds the listener in its sheer gusto and intensity.

July 1972

the playing in that warhorse Finlandia is enormously alert

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