Today at ten to eleven I saw 16 swans. One of my greatest experiences! Lord God, that beauty! They circled over me for a long time. Disappeared into the solar haze like a gleaming, silver ribbon… Nature mysticism and life’s Angst. The Fifth Symphony’s finale theme: Legato in the trumpets!!
Jean Sibelius, Diary, 21st April, 1915
Materials:
Amazon lists 166(!) recordings of the 5th Symphony with prices starting at an astonishing £3.98 for the early Simon Rattle recording (coupled with Nielsen’s 4th – the Inextinguishable) on EMI: click here for CDs.
For those of you who would prefer to download there are 14 results (including the Rattle recording – though, for reasons I don't understand, this is only available from a link on the CD pages (see above)): click here for MP3 downloads.
The Dover edition of the full score is available from £5.32 (plus postage) here: full score
or as a free download from the Petrucci Music Library here.
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