Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Album by Jean Sibelius & San Francisco Symphony & Herbert Blomstedt

Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 are orchestral works by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, completed in 1911 and 1915. The Fourth is austere and introspective, with stark orchestration and dissonant harmonies suggesting a move towards modernist idioms, while the Fifth is more expansive and rhythmic, with broad thematic transformations that signalled an important development in Sibelius's symphonic writing and influenced later 20th-century orchestral repertoire.
First released: 1991

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 4 in A minor, op. 63: I. Tempo molto moderato, quasi adagio
    10:34
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 4 in A minor, op. 63: II. Allegro molto vivace
    4:44
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 4 in A minor, op. 63: III. Il tempo largo
    11:02
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 4 in A minor, op. 63: IV. Allegro
    10:21
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 82: I. Tempo molto moderato - Largamente - Allegro moderato
    13:52
  6. 6.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 82: II. Andante mosso, quasi allegretto
    8:16
  7. 7.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 82: III. Allegro molto
    9:07

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