Fantastic trombone solo 😊

Hyvä TFO!

This is great. Thank you for sharing this.

Ilahduttavaa eläytymistä sekä kapellimestarilta että orkesterimuusikoilta. Ne vahvistavat toisiaan ja takaavat tämänkin onnistuneen esityksen. Ilahduttavaa myös, että tästä on hienosti kuvattu dokumentti koko maailmalle. Upea orkesteri. Olen turkulaisena siitä ylpeä!

Tämä teos kuultiin myös perjantaina 24.11. 2023. Kiitos!

Onpa kiva katsoa ja kuunnella tämä teos hiukan toisesta kulmasta kuin aikanaan omalta vakiopaikalta. Kiitos! Julian Rachlin olisi taas tervetullut Turkuun!

Bellísimo,!!!bravooo!!!❤🎉

Is anyone else currently 'all over' this 3rd Symphony after first being totally enamoured and bedazzled with 2nd and 5th? I'm just in awe right now. Call me a 'Jean' fan girl, but when's his next comeback?? 🤣

Hyvä suomi ja finlandia. Isäni oli jatkosodassa....

Magnificent!

Ah, mais quel orchestre!!!! Je suppose que tout est dû à Leif, mais quand même... Magnifique!!!

Поражает, как легко и воздушно звучит гобой… действительно, неземное звучание. Солист талантлив

Amazing play! Musician is great!!!

Leif Segerstam Finnish conductor and composer Rest In peace.

Marvelous! Thank you for uploading this; it's nice to have such a fine performance of my favorite Nielsen symphony. I especially enjoy the playing of your wind section. Bravo to all!

Wonderful! Thank you!

Old Vienna on quaaludes

Turku is lucky to have such an excellent orchestra. Mr Segerstam was one of the Enthused Ones!

Strange too slow performance

Oskar Merikanto är för mig som svensk mest känd för psalmen "Säg minnes du psalmen vi sjöngo". Då jag var ung i Sverige sjöng Ingeborg Nyberg in den på en LP, det blev succé, hon var mycket populär ett tag. Jag minns hur jag som barn lyssnade på den. Men Merikanto har tydligen fler strängar på sin lyra, som här!

Very nice! Finnish music has so many great composers; its good that Finns other than Jean Sibelius are on your programs.

I almost had the feeling to have heard this for the first time. Wonderful.

Music for the funeral.

En laita jatkoon.

Why didnt he have a bigger career? Many with far less ability (but better management) gotbz lot father. He studied conducting at Juilliard with the great teacher (but horrible human) Jean Morel and was a substitute teacher of a music theory class I was taking with the ailing and slightly hung-!over Bernard Wagenaar. Leif's teaching,, though brief, was revelatory.

A wonderful, slow, almost sleep walking version of this masterpiece by Sibelius. 🙏

R.I.P. Maestro Segerstam. (1944-2024)

Exceptional orchestra and conductor.

I really love this piece and indeed most of Vaughan Williams work. The oboe has such a mellifluous and tender tone which makes it quite beautiful to hear

Magnífica versión de la Turku p. Y espléndido L.sergerstam en la conducción de la 4 J.S.❤

!!!bravooo!!! T.PO. brillante performance de la 5 PIT.una de mis preferidas de este compositor ruso.congratulations 🎉❤

Gracias Turku Philarmonic por tan hermosos conciertos como ésta de Zoltan Koday, Sibelius, etc.exeltente orquesta ❤.

Hermoso regalo 😍🎁 la música de Sibelius es muy buena sobre todo cuando es bien interpretadas por buenas orquesta como esta la Turku filarmmonie orchester y la exelente dirección del maestro Leif Segerstam.thanks.❤

Absolutely magnificient ! As all the symphonies in this wonderful series.

Absolutely beautiful. I always love Segerstam's take on Sibelius symphonies, although I do feel like he tried to treat it a bit like Mahler in parts, and despite the slower than average tempo, still seemed rather impatient. Honestly I quite enjoyed this interpretation, it just felt uneasy, moreso than the music already is. Like he wasn't sure how to tackle something so constrained. But ultimately a great rendition.

Excellent! Thank you!

Rest in peace, you will be remembered.

Thank you three Trombones. This No.7 is a majestic work that gives us the image of Nordic gods heading towards the northern seas.

Gracias maestro Leif sergestam🎉🎉🎉 1:28:46

Exquisito sublime interpretación, que gran orquesta magnífico director de esta magistral obra schowtakoviniana leningrade sinphony 7.gracias por compartir ❤

The best complete series of Sibelius symphonies available. Marvellous, from this first to the seventh !

Ist movement is too slow for my liking, but interesting nonetheless.

Absolutely thrilling!

Babbo Natale great maestro

RIP.

The American 'composer' and critic Virgil Thompson called this symphony ".... vulgar and provincial" -- but do we hear anything of VT's music now? Or his professorial papers? As for "provincial", well did the 'also-ran' realize what he was saying? Henry James must have been absent from VT's reading list. Certainly this longest of Sibelius's symphonies can sound pompous in the last movement when conductors emphasize the melodic, anthem-like secondary theme over the primary one. The whole work is built on 3 ascending notes played at the very start and this motif has organic offshoots throughout all movements but in permutations which are quite complex and these can be dying away as new ones begin and overlap. There are busy or extended fugal foundations when this happens and the transition from the 3rd to last movement carries this structure without a pause or (as some conductors choose) a very short pause. The whole of the 4th movement is multi-fugal and the first and second motifs sometimes meet up and at other times don't. This makes best sense if one considers Bruckner's 5th symphony and its unusual "agenda" which still puzzles many. Sibelius had shaken off Tchaikovsky devices by Op.43 and his love of Bruckner informed but did not unduly influence orchestration or harmony -- and Sibelius stretches the latter quite a bit. Performed at indicated speeds, with truly musical players and conducted by someone who puts research and preparation into action, this symphony is big, majestic and intellectually satisfying. The late Leif Segerstam had the lot and we are so lucky to have these live performances of his late years, afflicted by illness, with his belovéd Turku orchestra. He had begun with the old Turku orchestra as a young man, conducted much more famous orchestras in three continents and returned to his native area of the Bothnian coast when he became restricted in mobility. He argued that as long as his mind and musicality were not compromised there was no need to retire from conducting and he chose the Turku P.O. as the players chose him. He honed many principal musicians into world standard and several returned to Turku to be under his baton because he saw conducting as being equivalent to being IN the orchestra. Leif Segerstam died in October 2024 at the age of 80.

Sibelius agonized about when to embark upon publishing actual symphonies and did not do so until he had a good reputation which had begun to reach outside Finland. What became Op.39 had mostly been sketched and orchestrated as early as the first of the '4 Legends' Op.22 and even then he played safe by sounding like Tchaikovsky with a few shades of Bruckner and not (as Kajanus and Beecham said) showing enough of himself. That is a valid point but doesn't detract from the quality of the work as a symphony. However, Sibelius's genius use of woodwind from Symphony No 3 and thereafter hints at weaknesses in woodwinds (except the clarinet and bassoon) as part of the meat of the work. Just having 2 flutes and passing lower notes to clarinets against such rich string forces leaves a hole which Sibelius did not revise, possibly due to publishing costs. The late Leif Segerstam here got around the missing high middle by quietening the violins quite a bit and keeping the viola dynamics constant. As a violist himself (hear him in his own quartets where possible) he knew what he was doing. His belovéd Turku local team play magnificently in every way. This is a world class orchestra.

kiitos

The late Leif Segerstam was probably the best Sibelius conductor of his generation and avoided the failings of some other conductors tipping into this century. His approach was to use original autograph scores in his research and preparation and sometimes he conducted from facsimile copies of these in performance. When doing so his 'ceremony' was to lay a hand on the score before mounting the podium then again after stepping down. LS wanted to show that every note was there for a reason and sometimes he used notes by the composer in pencil which do not occur in plain editions. These usually related to tempi of motifs in repeated forms and scored the same but having a different role in the whole piece's journey and how some violins and violas should be played in a seemingly unison section. Sibelius was a violinist, as was Elgar and both used these devices. Where Segerstam succeeds especially well in this performance with "the home band" is in unifying pieces which were written over quite a long period earlier in his mature voice development and only later collected into a whole as Op.22. In earlier works Sibelius sometimes published 'safer' works while working on these more private ones, basically to establish his music as being worth playing and he had to watch the pennies too. A state grant was not given until around the time of his 3rd symphony and the very strange 4th would not have been as we know it had he been obliged to make it less nihilistic. Those who say that Segerstam doesn't look at the musicians are plain wrong. His way was always to ensure that were ready and before a challenging passage he would also look at the relevant players out of encouragement or readiness or because he saw the role of conductor as being part of the ensemble. Having begun with the Turku orchestra (he hailed from further north in the Bothnia region), Segerstam conducted some of the world's most prestigious orchestra but has special affection for the younger version of the Turku P. O., which others had refined from his early days. The endocrine disease which afflicted him from before the age of 70 made mobility difficult and he was supported by his family in refusing to retire until and unless his musicianship was affected. It never was and died aged 80 in October 2024. With such a disabling illness it made sense to domestically "retire" to home ground and we are privileged to have his final years conducting Sibelius (definitively?) with the astonishing Turku Phil, whose personnel (I am told) tended to remain to learn and make music with Leif Segerstam. Other approaches to Op.22 which are well worth hearing are Ormandy with the Philadelphia and Alexander Gibson with the SNO.

1:22 the flutes motif disappear ! ( d, c, d, f, b ) we just hear d and b ...