![]() ![]() Rakastava with its ‘ethereal polyphony’ (Tawaststjerna) is relatively well-known (it has been recorded many times since it publication more than a century ago), and differences from the previous printed edition are minor, as the autograph score no longer exists and thus the first edition and parts are the primary sources. The undoubted highlight of the volume is the suite Rakastava, reworked around the time of the Fourth Symphony from the choral piece composed in the 1890s. Whilst the composer remains best known internationally for his symphonies, Violin Concerto and tone poems, his music for string orchestra includes several masterpieces and a number of rarely heard gems. It does not include the incidental music to Mikael Lybeck’s Ödlan ( The Lizard), which is sometimes played by string orchestra although Sibelius actually wrote it for not for orchestra but for chamber ensemble. Three items – the two early versions of the Impromptu and the Paris version of Rakastava – are here published for the first time. This runs to a total of eight works, although several are presented here in more than one version. The latest release in Breitkopf & Härtel’s JSW Critical Edition, edited by Pekka Helasvuo and Tuija Wicklund, offers a whole genre within Sibelius’s output: his music for string orchestra. Series III (Works for String Orchestra) Vol. Rotterdam Sibelius Festival Review (May 2019)Įdited by the National Library of Finland and the Sibelius Society of Finland.The Eighteenth International Lahti Sibelius Festival, 2017.Recent releases from Breitkopf & Härtel.JSW Works for Violin/Cello & Piano Review.JSW Violin Concerto (version with piano) Review.JSW Overture in E major & Balettscen review. ![]()
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