The concert concluded with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5. For those who get caught up in such things, this is considered to be the greatest fifth symphony ever written. That’s saying something ...
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Review: Expert playing from the Fort Worth Symphony, but interpretive questions lingerThe Strauss Don Juan and Sibelius Fifth Symphony had comparable assets in power and projection. Apart from some high violin chatters not entirely tidy early in the Strauss, the playing throughout ...
Like so much Sibelius, this Fifth was a sonic landscape painting, a glorious mountain range jutting up from the horizon. But unlike many Sibelius interpretations, Rouvali brought bar-to-bar ...
The coupling is a Fifth Symphony with Barbirolli’s beloved Hallé from ... and in the second movement it’s a joy to hear Sibelius’s delicious pizzicato writing “speak” with such clarity and eloquence.
If sonic splendour were the sole criterion, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Sibelius symphony cycle with the Philharmonia ... On the debit side, the Fifth is scuppered by a hectic fluster about the second half ...
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Ulster Orchestra sends spirits soaring with help from Chloe Van Soeterstede and Nadege RochatThe second half was devoted to the 5th Symphony by Sibelius, premiered at his 50th birthday celebrations in Helsinki on ...
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