Ho appena scoperto questa orchestra e mi sembra molto interessante.

Early Vanska in Finland was marvelous in Sibelius and had just the right touch. I use past tense because his Sibelius with whatever US orchestra he is conducting might as well be done by any hack conductor. Apart from BIS (like Ondine) recording too quietly, this 4th shows more than the others how Osmo Vanska could get inside the composer's mind set back then even though he sometimes departed from directions in the published score. Not even Sanderling takes so long over the Largo key stone movement but Vanska, at that time, knew that it would work because he understood the structure of the mighty symphony and that it is about uncertainty and falling short despite all efforts. However, the symphony is also abstract and not necessarily about humans and the state of the world in 1911, as some critics and writers about music try to suggest. When Sibelius and Mahler met and discussed symphonic they expressed opposed views about what the form means and Sibelius was much closer to Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven than was Mahler (who had been mainly a conductor and knew the repertoire inside out). For Sibelius a symphony needed to have a clear shape and preferably 4 movements but he also broke his own 'rule' if that was how the music was leading him. Yet even in the single movement 7th symphony there are sections with development and that led Constant Lambert to write that Sibelius was writing the music of the future. That was in his book 'Music Ho' of 1934 but Sibelius had ceased composing in 1926. The 'cellular' musical language which Sibelius devised quite early but only sparingly put into his major works so as to not be too shocking -- until, from the 4th symphony and thrice revised 5th it became primary and not just a stylistic device -- indeed prefigured much of the music of the late 20th century and this one so far. Debussy was very interested in it in his last years (d. 1918) and subtly crept into works by younger composers such as Vaughan Williams and other British composers, several in the USA, notably Harris, Piston and Copland, Germany post WW2 and Russia (note Shostakovich late quartets and the 13th and 14th symphonies and much of Schnittke's music) and found its way into 'minimalism' and much Baltic and eastern European music. Messiaen used the developmental thinking in him most complex works when he had shaken off 12 tone flirtations. The composer had explained to Sir Thomas Beecham that his music grew from nature big and small and all of nature is cellular. One reason why Vanska's recording of Symphony No 4 here is so successful -- even with the Largo at Bruckner speed -- is because he did not augment the string section of the Lahti S.O. and we are taken on a journey with faltering pauses. Schneevoigt had performed and been recorded playing the Largo slowly when he was conducting in the USA and we hear too little about the Finnish conductor -- ironically a Mahler specialist. He tended to present it with a reduced string complement of only the best players because of the need for consistent tremolo when called for in the score. Sibelius was trained violinist and performed concertos when a young man to earn money so his string writing was, like Elgar's, "from the horse's mouth". This version will not please everyone but really should be heard. One can only hope that Vanska rediscovers his earlier footprints in the snow.

They do the original ending of Bartok's V.C. 2.

Words can not describe this music, especially the unparalleled beauty of the Agnus Dei.

Vänskä is truly a Sibelius master. His rendition of the Oceanids is jaw dropping. Thanks for your post 👍

그림이 매우 좋군요... 금식 기도 중에 십자가에서 이런 광경이 펼쳐진 것을 본적이 있습니다.....!!!!!!!

Extraordinarily sensitive and nuanced performance.

Who is the painting by?

Wonderful performance and great music.

Ici, pas de démonstratisme ou volonté de se montrer en spectacle (G.Gould), non... La sérénité de Bach dans toute sa splendeur... le silence accepté et subjugué par un tempo qui laisse l'espace à la musique de respirer et de se confondre dans notre esprit... Aucun relans de romantisme, une connaissance spirituelle bien plus que simplement technique... Du grand art ! Bravo grand maître !

This will quench and moisturize the dryness of the soul

Best

Korolev's Goldberg Variations Korolev's Art of Fugue Korolev's Well Tempered Clavier (Book I) The Holy Trinity of Bach interpretation.

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One of the best I’ve ever heard! Bravo Keller Quartet!

This is the only version.

Just wow! ❤