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The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43, is a four-movement work for orchestra written from 1901 to 1902 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He began writing the symphony in winter 1901 in Rapallo, Italy, shortly after the successful premiere of the popular Finlandia. Sibelius said, "My second symphony is a confession of the soul." [5]
The Cleveland Orchestra 75th anniversary (10-CD set) [5] [6] Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2* (World Premiere recording) Shostavokich: Symphony No. 1+ Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande: Preludes and interludes^ Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade+; Sibelius: Symphonies 2~ & 3~ Wagner: Siegfried Idyll~ Mozart: Requiem, K. 626~ Schumann: Introduction and ...
Although early advocates from the 1930s and 1940s had conducted many of Sibelius's symphonies from gramophone, none of these Sibelians recorded all seven. [19] In February 1952, Metronome (the United States distributor was Mercury) and Decca each began cycles: the former enlisted the Swedish conductor Sixten Ehrling and the Stockholm Radio Orchestra (now the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic ...
At the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, Szell was returning via the U.S. from an Australian tour and ended up settling with his family in New York City. [3] From 1940 to 1945 he taught composition, orchestration, and music theory at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan; his composition students at Mannes included George Rochberg and Ursula Mamlok. [12]
In 1946, Szell was appointed as the orchestra’s fourth music director. [28] From the start of his tenure, Szell's intention was to transform the orchestra into “America’s finest” symphonic ensemble and developing an orchestra that was “second to none.” [29] He spent much of his early time in Cleveland changing personnel in an effort to find musicians who were capable of creating ...
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic – Lutosławski: Symphony No. 2; Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra – Messiaen: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum; Chronochromie, Etc. Yuri Temirkanov conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad'
Sibelius, Prokofiev, & Glazunov. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Walter Hendl, Conductor Prokofiev: Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 63 (Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch, Conductor) Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82 (RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Walter Hendl, Conductor)
The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) wrote over 550 original works during his eight-decade artistic career. [1] This began around 1875 with a short miniature for violin and cello called Water Droplets (Vattendroppar), [2] and ended a few months before his death at age 91 with the orchestration of two earlier songs, "Kom nu hit, död" ("Come Away, Death") and "Kullervon valitus ...