Orchestral Music for the Theatre (complete) [incls 'Pellaas and Malisande Suite', 'Scaramouche' & 'The Tempest']

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Orchestral Music for the Theatre (complete) [incls 'Pellaas and Malisande Suite', 'Scaramouche' & 'The Tempest']
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi

[ BIS Complete Sibelius Edition / 6 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Sunday 1 June 2008

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Incidental music for the theatre is a genre in which Sibelius's outstanding abilities as a composer of large canvases for orchestra were combined with his equally well-honed talent for writing concise, sharply characterized portraits of characters or scenes.

The present volume of the Sibelius Edition focuses on the orchestral music that he wrote for plays and includes both the complete theatrical scores and the suites that the composer in several cases put together from these.

Volume five in BIS's acclaimed Sibelius Edition includes the world première recordings of Svanevit Preliminary sketch for No.9 from Svanevit & Canon from Suite No.1 (1927 version) from The Tempest. Other previously unreleased recordings are Valse triste and Scene with Crane from Kuolema.

Among the plays given the Sibelius treatment are works by famous as well as less familiar authors: from Shakespeare, Strindberg and Maeterlinck to the composer's brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt. It was for a production of Järnefelt's drama Kuolema ('Death') that Sibelius wrote one of his first scores in 1903 for the theatre - a score which included a Tempo di valse lente that would soon make its triumphant course around the world under the title Valse triste.

Tracks:

King Kristian II, incidental music, Op. 27
Original theatre music (1898)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

King Kristian II, incidental music, Op. 27
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Kuolema, Op. 44
Original theatre music (1903)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

Svanevit (Swanwhite), JS 189
Original theatre music (1908)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

Pelléas and Mélisande, JS147
Original theatre music (1905)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

Jokamies (Jedermann), Op. 83
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

The Tempest, Op. 109
Original theatre music (1925)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

Belshazzar's Feast, JS48
Original theatre music (1906)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

Swanwhite Suite, Op. 54
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Scaramouche, incidental music, Op. 71
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Pelléas and Mélisande Suite, Op. 46
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

The Tempest, Op. 109
Prelude and Concert Suites (1927)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi