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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]
Lorin Varencove Maazel (/ m ə ˈ z ɛ l /; [1] March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer.He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music.
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 ...
Symphony No. 2 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 3 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 6 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
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 ...
Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63 - USSR S.S.O. (Melodiya) Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 5 in E flat major , Op. 82 – Sinfonia of London (World Record Club T 42) (1959) Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor , Op. 47 – Tossy Spivakovsky / London S.O. (Everest records/World Record Club T 94)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony 2 in D minor, second movement opening—bassoons play in octaves; Symphony 5 in E-flat major. Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, opens with a famously unorthodox bassoon solo; The Firebird, "Berceuse"; "Infernal Dance" with contrabassoon, horns, trombone, tuba; Pulcinella Suite.
Devotion, Op. 77/2 (1915); subtitled "Ab imo pectore" ("From my very heart"). Tempo molto moderato; Sibelius originally called No. 1 Lofsången (Song of Praise). In 1915, he made transcriptions of each piece for violin and piano. In 1916, he arranged both pieces for cello and orchestra and transcribed them, too, for cello and piano. [3] [4]