Sibelius: 5. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Daníel Bjarnason

[@achenarmyst2156]

The final „applause“ by the orchestra itself reminds us of these extremely weird times we have gone through in the recent years. 😷

[@bobcochran2890]

Such a grand work, played beautifully by this fine ensemble. The interpretation is, for me, very elegant. So sad there was no audience to burst into applause.

[@Dylonely_9274]

A great symphony. The last movement is out of this world.

[@PaulBrower-qr8hf]

That is exactly what we needed for contesting the nasty time of the plague of COVID-19.

[@craigkowald3055]

The opening horn call is my morning alarm. It is like a beautiful dawn on a Spring day.

[@aldomojica1422]

What a remarkable and expertly composed end to the first movement, from 12:14 to 14:13. The violins set a polite and steady pace for the orchestra’s orderly march towards the exit. The flute chimes a gentle reminder for all to be patient. The cellos cordially comply while keeping a nervous eye on the door. There’s an anxious undercurrent, with everyone barely holding it together. Suddenly, the bassoons and clarinets impetuously demand that the whole affair be speeded up. Unwilling to wait any longer, the trumpets also loudly protest their impatience, greatly ramping up the tension. After one final, futile attempt by the flute to establish a sense of order, it surrenders to the overwhelming and growing confusion. Trombones and horns boisterously assert their presence and enthusiastically enter into the fray. All sense of decorum is completely abandoned and from here on it’s every instrument for himself. A wonderfully controlled chaos ensues as the entire orchestra is caught in a frantic mad dash to be the first to cross the finish line. The vivid symphonic imagery that Sibelius manages to create here in just a few bars is sheer genius.

[@JasielMartini]

Honesltly the sound engineers did an awesome job on this recording. So crisp, so clean, and each instrument clearly heard and defined. Probably the best sounding recording of this symphony i've ever heard. I've never seen the score myself, so I got to hear a bunch of cool things I hadn't noticed before.

[@tt-ew7rx]

In various places it's tempting to just throw the kitchen sink in and muddy everything up, but it's actually quite exquisite writing with clarity called for almost everywhere. So when it does work out it's totally subliminal. This is not something that can come out well in a place like the Royal Albert Hall.

[@xoknight8166]

One of the most sublime piece of music in the classical music repertoire. Full of rich and raw harmonies and melodies, illustrating life and nature through music

[@OlavoLuisatto]

Excuse me. 24:30 Allegro Molto. Sibelius declared this: "World Peace through Music is established" Wonderful. Bravo! Congratulations! My best regards from BRZ. Thank you so much!!

[@JasielMartini]

I read somewhere that Sibelius composed this after seeing swans flying above him. I swear the oboes/flutes/clarinets together make a very swan-like call. And the horns make me think of how majestic the swan looks in flight. Ilustrating life and nature through music indeed!

[@lis9140]

​@OlavoLuisatto this section brought me to tears.

[@stevenwilgus5422]

I love the complete body of Sibelius' work. But, the Fifth is a true tour de force. Especially when played with such virtuosity!

[@matzek.9119]

My favorite Sibelius Symphonie

[@maximiliangeier9637]

8:30 Die Sonne geht auf, erleuchtet majestätisch und erschafft einen neuen Tag ❤️

[@Semmwizer]

The lush harmonies & flowing melodies are so entrancing and calming, I can't get enough. The sound quality on this recording is really good too, my favorite so far.

[@lelemsays]

Can't believe I will be hearing this live in less than a week 🥺🥺

[@rudolphkim7533]

The opening always gets me feel like standing against a huge wind of luckiness to begin my own journey

[@paulsomers6048]

Nice to see the players shifted around a bit. Especially pleased to see the young woman usually on oboe 2 for this performance doing a first rate job on 1st! Brava!!

[@robertbettens1]

Da Capo: Those recordings are top quality musical, sound and vision, congragulations for the organisation.

[@richardwilliams473]

Nice to see the substitute timpanist given an opportunity to play this wonderful Sibelius Symphony No 5

[@staffanolofsson8201]

This is perhaps my favourite. Together with the second, the third and the forth! But this fifth has something that the other lacks. This fifth is there just in it own ways, or just for fun, and then great music occurs. This fifth has astonished me many times with its splendour, like in the last movement. So I like to like it as one of my favourite Sibelius.

[@scuunjieng]

never heard of him until this post. thank you very much. from the opening I knew this would be a distinctive reading. I need to check out his compositions. thank you very much.

[@tankej]

What a joy to have a glorious new recording of this glorious symphony: thank you from the bottom of my heart:-)

[@paulbeard9481]

Ashame there was no live audience to imbibe it like a wonderful banquet. However WE were that audience !

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

24:25 so good. 👌🏻💜

[@vprs596]

A glorious reading.

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne Aufführung dieser spätromantischen und nordisch komponierten Sinfonie mit gut harmoniserten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt echt schön und auch melodisch. Der intelligente und geniale Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Orchester in verschiedenen Tempi und mit künstlerisch kontrollierter Dynamik. Wundervoll vom Anfang bis zum Ende!

[@tribonian3875]

Ja. Das Orchester ist wunderbar ausgeglichen in seinen Sections. Echtes Teamwork, jder hört auf jeden. Aber besonders die Bläsersection ist bei Sibelius gefordert, und hat die schwierige Aufgabe super gelöst. Wir Frankfurter haben hier ein Juwel. Weltklasse.

[@ronaldbwoodall2628]

Bravo!! This was one of the most effective, deeply-felt performances of this great work I may have ever heard. It certainly captured the exhilaration of seeing birds in flight, which I can imagine the entire Symphony to be about. It was intensely moving without being "over-interpreted", and inner voices could be heard clearly.

[@picebarius8394]

Splendid commentary, thank you. 🙏

[@tsurcurlyhair]

Half way into the first movement and I'm shivering like crazy.

Wunderbar!

[@antonioveraldi9137]

superb final: six powerful chords through which the main theme is transformed in pure energy

[@Jarkko565]

An excellent account. Especially the first movement, that consisted in the original version of the symphony of two movements, is very difficult to conduct and play. It shatters very easily to pieces. I have in recent years heard so many. less good renditions, that I have sometimes felt, that the only few born Sibelians can make the most of it. Maestros like von Karajan, Vänskä, Ashkenazy or Dausgaard. Now I can add to this list also Bjarnason. And the orchestra. What can I say of it? I think I have heard so many top concerts of Sibelius in recent years, that perhaps the Frankfurt orchestra is the leading interpretor of the Sibelius symphonies right now. When do we hear Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony or the programmatic symphonic works like Kullervo Symphony or Lemminkäinen Suite: four legends? I tend to believe, that this organization could easily find some refreshing perspectives to theseworks, too.

[@lelemsays]

Have you watched the performance of the Oslo orchestra? The conductor was smiling and it was so wholesome 🥺🥺

[@Jarkko565]

If you mean conductor Klaus Mäkelä, he is very good at Sibelius. I haven’t seen that particular performance but I’ve listened him to perform life Sibelius’s 2nd symphony some years ago and it was great.

[@lindametelka5172]

The great swinging theme- The swans in flight- at the end which builds to the incredible climax which has so much energy that they can't end on a single chord it has to end on five separate chords just amazing

[@DM-ht9ql]

Fantastic sound!

[@Artist_Aejoo]

직접 가서 보고싶네요ㅠ~♡ 너무 너무 잘들었습니다~!!

[@AlbertEinstein-sb4ce]

Gran interpretación departe del maestro Daníel Bjarnason

[@MegaVicar]

Bravo! A very good account of a difficult masterwork!

[@mickwoolley8267]

Fantastic piece of music, I agree. But I was massively more involved in an earlier rendition by the same orchestra. Dare I say it is down to the conductor. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5TNp6l4l7-bpJY

[@kdr6268]

My fav rendition; Sublime

[@carlosburga8374]

Excelente interpretación. Muchas gracias HR. Saludos desde Perú.

[@whatsina1]

Just astonishing. The tension at the end....

[@adrianshephard5251]

Absolutely flawless.

[@lelemsays]

Bravo!

[@julieandrews730]

OMG! No audience yelling Bravo! I love this orchestra no matter who is conducting. But love the restrained control of Bjarnason.

[@ianglasse809]

Another exquisite performance of Sibelius' 5th by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony with maestro Bjarnason keeping the tempo very exact and true to the score. The wind and brass sections are both impressive with the young lady on 2nd Oboe particularly 'on song'. Jean would have been delighted with this performance and the esteem with which his 5th is held in.

[@badublackwater6556]

in 5 tagen bin ich live dabei, ich freue mich sehr!

[@Discovery_and_Change]

2:34 light preview | 5:09 | 8:38 |

[@SplittingProductions]

The melody that the horns introduce in the third movement sounded so familiar to me yet I could not figure out why and it had been bugging me all week until finally it came to me. "The First Class" totally "borrowed" it in their son "Beach Baby" in the 70s. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnibfoRum5mhfJY

[@normanmeharry58]

That's where he got it from.

[@joseburbujas1236]

Sibelius mucho detalle bastante detalles minucioso

[@johnbaek9820]

Nice piece. Hits the right balance of putting on well in the background, but also subtly enchanting in ways more than Sibelius' other symphonies.

[@ВладимирУ-т3ц]

Чудесная музыка! Будет мир!

[@JasonMcChristian]

He just plowed through those rests at the ending of the final movement. Why?

[@sgabriel]

You can see, and hear, that the music doesn't live in his body. The orchestra sounds fantastically well in spite of this, ensembles wobbles aside.

[@sgabriel]

Looking fwd to Rouvali performing the 5th!

[@alkanista]

That was strange. It was as if he played them exactly twice as fast as written.

[@sgabriel]

@@alkanista Baffling.

[@adrianshephard5251]

I prefer them like that!

[@Paulofibonelli]

30:00 a real apotheosis

[@brucemiller5356]

where is the regular tympanist, i wonder?

[@vidaaltoe6319]

12:39 = 15 before M

[@Jin33436]

24:24

[@no_Ray_bang]

Frequently feels fast, some parts are a bit muddled, end of the 1st movement an example of this.

[@AdamCzarnowski]

Bokehlicious beginning.

[@tom2tones223]

While I am a sucker for Sibelius symphonies out of pure enjoyment, I sometimes imagine how good his music could be with contrasting developmental sections.

[@muslit]

Those last sfz were hardly.

[@presto3219]

This is what you get when you treat bassoon as an unimportant instrument...anyone can play it!!!!!!

[@ThomasBerger-de6tq]

…….Sinfonien sind keine tausend Seen, auch wenn sie tausend Löcher haben….frei nach Adorno. Auch ich finde Sibelius Musik überschätzt. Gerade in den USA und Großbritannien, da rangierte der in der Wertschätzung lange deutlich vor Bruckner und Mahler!

[@normanmeharry58]

Oh don't quote Adorno. He's a total Richard.

[@yixoraptor6775]

24:28

[@mariorossi9655]

24:26