Jean Sibelius Essentials
Apple Music Classical
Few composers celebrated their homeland as passionately and powerfully as Jean Sibelius. His tone-poem Finlandia became an alternate Finnish national anthem, and his seven symphonies, written in a tonal and magnificently atmospheric language, take us on a searing voyage of the soul. From the Tchaikovskian first two, Sibelius refines and concentrates his language—passing through No. 5 with shattering power—to the short and intense No. 7. As well as shorter orchestral works, Sibelius is equally famed for his technically challenging Violin Concerto.
On lapsonen syntynyt meille, JS 142 (A Child Is Born unto Us)
Heikki Seppänen, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Under strandens granar, Op. 13 No. 1 (Arr. A. Sallinen)
IV. The Three Blind Sisters (Version for Soprano and Orchestra)