Sibelius: Luonnotar / Tapiola / Pelléas och Mélisande / etc
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Sibelius: Luonnotar / Tapiola / Pelléas och Mélisande / etc
Lise Davidsen (soprano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 July 2021
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Following their acclaimed recordings of Schoenberg with Sara Jakubiak and Britten's Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic turn their attention to the music of Sibelius. Written in 1913 for the diva Aino Ackté, the tone poem Luonnotar draws on text from the Finnish national epic poem, the Kalevala. Its virtuosic demands are ably met here by award-wining soprano Lise Davidsen, who also feature in the Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande, music re-worked by Sibelius from his incidental music written for the first performances of Maeterlinck's play in Helsinki, in 1905, in Swedish. The tone poem Tapiola, from 1926, is Sibelius' last great masterpiece and evokes the forests of his native Finland. The programme is completed by a pair of much earlier works, Rakastava (the Lover) and Vårsång (Spring Song). The album was recorded in Surround Sound and is available as a hybrid SACD.
"… The performance of Tapiola is in fact one of the most searching and dramatic it has been accorded, finding every nuance of the composer's remarkable orchestration, and everything else on disc is given a searching reading, with Lise Davidsen both poignant and dramatic in the haunting Luonnotar. An absolutely unmissable disc."
Five Stars - CDChoice.co.uk
Tracks:
Luonnotar, Op.70 (1913)
Tapiola, Op.112 (1926)
Pelléas och Mélisande, Op.46 (1904-05)
Rakastava, Op.14
Vårsång, Op.16
