Jean Sibelius, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Symphonie Nr. 4 / Der Schwan Von Tuonela (VG+/VG+) – LP, DE 1965

Symphonie Nr. 4 / Der Schwan Von Tuonela is an LP by Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Jean Sibelius from 1965 released on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

About this album

Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker give Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony and The Swan of Tuonela a taut, unsentimental reading that underlines the composer’s modern, austere side. Written in the early 1910s, the Fourth Symphony is one of Sibelius’s most individual works, folding late-Romantic language into stark, tightly controlled structures that can feel bleak, searching and quietly radical. The Swan of Tuonela, from the Lemminkäinen Suite, offers a contrasting vision of stillness and melancholy, with its cor anglais solo becoming one of Sibelius’s most haunting orchestral ideas. Together they show why Sibelius became a defining symphonist of the 20th century.

Genre: Classical