Tuesday 16 March 2010

Sibelius’ 5th and 7th symphonies

Our ten sessions close with a return to the symphonies of Sibelius; to re-hear the fifth and, to complete our journey, to visit his last symphony, the seventh:
"The seventh symphony (…) is something new and revolutionary in the history of the symphony (…) With the seventh symphony and Tapiola the era of major-minor tonality inevitably came to an end - but how magnificently!"
Veijo Murtomäki, musicologist, 1990


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