Intent on making this composition – his first large-scale orchestral work – “thoroughly Finnish in spirit,” Sibelius traveled to the coastal town of Porvoo to hear Larin Paraske, the famed female folksinger, perform Finnish laments and runes in order to internalize the rugged, archaic style. Jean SIBELIUS (1865-1957) Kullervo, Symphony for soprano and baritone soloists, male choir and orchestra, Op 7 (1892) Helena Juntunen (soprano) Benjamin. Sibelius’s music for this dark tale abounds with the rhythms and meters of Finnish folk music, which captures the poetry’s brooding sense of hard lives with the ever-present spectre of tragedy. In horror and shame, she kills herself, Kullervo goes to battle, and finally kills himself as well. On his return he seduces a beautiful maiden who, they both discover, is his long-lost sister. Because he is inept at farm tasks, Kullervo is sent off to pay the family’s taxes. For an industry that’s supposed to be in trouble, it’s remarkable to consider that there have been no less than three superb SACD multichannel recordings of Sibelius’ epic Kullervo Symphony in the past year or so. As a young man, Kullervo finds his family, who thought he was dead, but learns that his sister is missing. Born with magical powers, Kullervo was raised as an orphan by his tribe’s enemies. The men of the LSO Chorus are outstanding, as are the two soloists, Peter Mattei and Monica Groop. Listen to the ruggedness and forward momentum in the choral narrations that open Kullervo and His Sister. Sibelius kreeg de vonk voor dit bijzondere opus door een runenzangeres uit Karelië, die hij in. Kullervo is a powerful figure from the Kalevala, the epic Finnish saga composed of 50 poems compiled by Elias Lannrot, a physician and folklorist who traveled throughout the Finnish-Russian borderlands recording the lyrics, stories, and ballads sung to him by rural people. Kullervo’s Youth, arguably Sibelius’ first fully characteristic symphonic movement, acquires the necessary gruffness and edge. Tijdens zijn leven mocht deze muziek niet gepubliceerd worden: Kullervo van Jean Sibelius. The chorus undertook months of preparation, including drilling on Monday nights on the language alone. The Finnish native speaker did not know music, so she intoned the syllables, and then Baxter and Director of Choruses Norman MacKenzie made a phonetic translation. Jeff Baxter, assistant director of choruses in Atlanta and a tenor in the ASO chorus, began learning the language from a native speaker about a year ago, in preparation for training the chorus to sing the piece. Name Introduction Kullervos Youth Kullervo And His Sister. The 80-minute work, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the men from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, with baritone Nathan Gunn and mezzo-soprano Charlotte Hellekant, was conducted by ASO Music Director Robert Spano and recorded at the Woodruff Arts Center in May.The all-volunteer Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus learned Finnish in order to perform this piece. Sibelius: Kullervo by Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Robert Spano.
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