Symphonies No.2 and No.6
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RRP £21.75 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Iceland So:Sakari
- Label
- Naxos Classics
- Barcode
- 9786306190522
Amazon.co.uk Here's the concluding instalment in Petri Sakari's Sibelius symphony series for Naxos--and very recommendable it is, too. As before, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra responds to its Finnish chief's clear-headed direction with unstinting enthusiasm and sensitivity. What's more, Sakari's readings are as impressively cogent as they are scrupulously observant, and if his Seventh just misses out on greatness, it remains an extremely likeable proposition, as does his fresh-faced account of the elusive, often other-worldly Sixth. As the outer portions of the latter work reveal, the Icelandic strings are fractionally wanting in corporate security and lustrous sheen, but there is nothing remotely slapdash about their contribution, while the woodwind playing is endearingly characterful throughout. As a rewarding fill-up, Sakari lends admirably alert advocacy to the second suite from Sibelius's extensive incidental score for a 1926 Copenhagen production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Throw in Naxos's excellent production values and useful annotation and it all adds up to a pretty irresistible package for under a fiver. --Andrew Achenbach Product Description Jean Sibelius(1865-1957)Symphony No. 6, Op.104; Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 The Tempest: Suite No.2, Op. 109, No. 3The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, the son of adoctor, in a small town in the south of Finland, the language and culture ofhis family being Swedish. It was at school that he was to lear
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