MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jarnefelt: Song of the Scarlet Flower [Full score to the 1919 film]

 
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ARMAS JARNEFELT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jarnefelt: Song of the Scarlet Flower [Full score to the 1919 film]
Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaakko Kuusisto

[ Ondine / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 11 January 2019

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This release features the world-première recording of the full orchestral score written by Armas Järnefelt (18691958) to Mauritz Stiller's silent film Song of the Crimson Flower (1919) performed by Gävle Symphony Orchestra under Jaakko Kuusisto. Armas Järnefelt - today largely known in music literature as Sibelius's brother-in-law - became one of the most remarkable Finnish orchestral composers during the 1890s. The composer wrote several symphonic poems and orchestral suites in his young age which were highly successful and widely performed by various orchestras in his home country. Järnefelt's score was lost for a long time, although he did conduct a recording of extracts from the score in 1931. In the 1980s the original score was rediscovered among the possessions of Järnefelt's relatives. Järnefelt's score was augmented and restored by Jani Kyllönen and Jaakko Kuusisto for the present recording.

"This is lushly orchestrated music with dramatic flourishes that occasionally paint quite an emotional picture" BBC Music

"The music is rooted in National Romanticism…There are numerous evocative solos, all beautifully played by members of a perky, reactive and highly engaged Gavle Symphony orchestra. The score is not as bitty as you might think; Järnefelt has ways of enlivening and energising what could be an endless string of folk dances in the film's first hour." Gramophone

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