Sibelius - Kullervo
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Label: Ondine
Cat No: ODE13385
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 4th October 2019
Contents
Artists
Johanna Rusanen (soprano)Ville Rusanen (baritone)
Estonian National Male Choir
The Polytech Choir
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Hannu LintuWorks
Kullervo, op.7Artists
Johanna Rusanen (soprano)Ville Rusanen (baritone)
Estonian National Male Choir
The Polytech Choir
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Hannu LintuAbout
While a student in Vienna, Sibelius started planning to write a large work that would crystallize the rising Finnish national feeling in music. It was in the cosmopolitan surroundings of Vienna where Sibelius finally discovered the Finnish sound for his orchestral works to follow. Until that moment the art music of his country, even works based on folklore characters such as found in the Kalevala poetry, had been largely influenced and dominated by German Romanticism. For his work Sibelius drew inspiration from traditional Finnish folk music and by studying the Kalevala epic on his own. From the 50 songs of the Kalevala, Sibelius chose passages from the most tragic sections of the work telling the story of Kullervo, an ill-fated young man. With the premiere of this work in Helsinki in 1892, Sibelius became a national hero – and also won the favour of his future father-in-law. Although the work was not performed again in Sibelius’s lifetime after the following year, the work was a milestone for Sibelius himself in his development as a composer and a symphonist. It was the composer’s first serious attempt in composing a large-scale orchestral work. Kullervo is a work by a young composer filled with inspiration, ideas and drama.
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