Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite; Spring Song; Suite from Belshazzar's Feast (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 71:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHAN 20136 | Recorded: 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 71:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHAN 20136 | Recorded: 2018
Chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2013, Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo has a special affinity with the music of his compatriot Sibelius which this recording admirably demonstrates. Sibelius’ ever-popular ‘Lemminkäinen Suite’ is coupled here with ‘Spring Song’, and the lesser-known Suite from ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’. Sibelius composed the ‘Lemminkäinen Suite’ (also called the Four Legends, or Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22, in the 1890s. Originally conceived as a mythological opera, Veneen luominen (The Building of the Boat), the suite is based on the character Lemminkäinen from the Finnish epic, the Kalevala.