The epic “Finlandia”, composed by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, performed here by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
Some masterful, proud, nationalistic music from a great composer to greet our coming weekend.
The final movement of Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony, performed here by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the excellent Esa-Pekka Salonen:
An excellent performance of a wonderful symphony. I find the tempo of the middle “chorale” theme, as introduced by the flutes accompanied by french horns, to be a little too broad – but otherwise I can’t fault this interpretation.
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