Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major / Pohjola's Daughter

Album by Jean Sibelius & Boston Symphony Orchestra & Serge Koussevitzky

This release pairs a late orchestral symphony and an earlier orchestral tone poem by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, completed in 1915 and 1906 respectively. Musically it exemplifies Sibelius's late-Romantic, Finnish-nationalist orchestral style, combining broad brass fanfares and expansive string textures with evolving motivic cells and large-scale arching structures that reflect his shift toward greater structural economy and concentrated thematic development.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major: I. Molto moderato
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major: I. Molto moderato (continued)

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major: I. Molto moderato (concluded)
  2. 3.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major: II. Andante mosso quasi allegretto

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major: II. Andante mosso quasi allegretto (concluded)
  2. 4.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major: III. Allegro molto

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major: III. Allegro molto (concluded)
  2. 5.
    Pohjola's Daughter

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    Pohjola's Daughter (continued)
  2. 6.
    Pohjola's Daughter (concluded)

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