Jean Sibelius -- Symphony No. 2 -- Score
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- At the time of writing his Second Symphony, Jean Sibelius was already a renowned cultural figure in his native Finland. Baron Axel Carpelan raised funds for Sibelius to spend the autumn and winter of 1901 in Italy, where he commenced work on the symphony, completing it back home the following year. It was premiered in 1902, then was revised slightly in 1903 into its final form.
The public reaction to the symphony was overwhelmingly positive, with listeners hearing it as another expression of Finnish patriotism and desire for independence, particularly in the final movement, with the lyrical ascending theme dueling with the ostinato and finally breaking out into a grand, glorious restatement at the very end. Some called it the "Symphony of Independence", similar to his previous work, the much more overt "Finlandia". Whether Sibelius actually intended this reaction, or wrote with this theme in mind, is unclear; he gave the work no title or program notes. He did, however, state that "My second symphony is a confession of the soul."
0:00 First Movement
10:02 Second Movement
24:08 Third Movement
30:12 Fourth Movement
Score sourced through the International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library: imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2,...)
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Many years ago I too had the pleasure of performing this with a youth orchestra with members selected from around the UK for the sole purpose of rehearsal and performance of this symphony (I can't remember the other pieces we performed) - my lasting memory was the trumpet part being played by a brass band player who continued to apply the vibrato that is associated with such bands - contrary to the purists, it actually worked, so much so that I can remember with great fondness this symphony. (PS I was a tuba player).
I'm glad you enjoyed it. The tuba part is certainly prominent at parts of this piece, particularly the fourth movement.
Thank you! My God, the Philadelphia Orchestra was spectacular back then (still great, mind you)!
Ormandy-Philadelphia was one of those great combinations, like Bernstein-New York or Solti-Chicago. As I was explaining last week to an unbelievably stupid person who seemed to think that classical music is authoritarian because there is one guy in charge and everybody has to be disciplined, musical performance, no matter the genre, has to be about collaboration. If you don't have that, your technical skill doesn't matter for much.
Great to read transcription simultaneously
Beautiful
Played this at the proms with NYOGB. One of my favourite symphonies, the 2nd movement especially, haunting beautiful at moments
I have the pleasure of playing this Symphony as a second violinist with the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra on March 27th of this year. And honestly, I love the whole thing, including the ascending scale at the end. Also, thanks for the enlarged score, it helped me a lot!
You're the first person to have used this as a study tool, or at least the first to tell me about it. I've also loved this symphony since I first heard a recording...which I think is the same recording I used for the video. I've got two others of Sibelius in the pipeline (1 and 5), and I'm happy to take any other suggestions for future videos.
@@SynchroScore Now make that two people who are using this as a study score! I'll be playing second violin for this piece at the end of April!
@@ChristianCangcuesta Where? I'd love to b able to come!
@@ChristianCangcuesta Well, hope you enjoy it, and hope that it's helpful.
@@SynchroScore Thank you! It is certainly helpful!
It is possible we'll never hear such an orchestral sound again. Leopold Stokowski built the sound, and Ormandy maintained it for 42+ years. Riccardo Muti supposedly "updated" the sound to be more flexible, but something precious was lost that not even Wolfgang Sawallisch could recover.
Masterpiece
42:19 chills
@@Dylonely42 I think this is my favorite of his symphonies, and one of my favorites by any composer. I do have some more put together, to be released before too much longer.
@@SynchroScore About same
One of my favorites to play on timps. Your arms are falling off at the end and the conductor ALWAYS wants a crescendo on the second to last chord....
Am I the only one who has ALWAYS heard the first theme of the first movement starting in the one and only now realised that it’s actually starting in the middle of the bar??? My whole life has been a lie! Im even afraid of trying to feel the music as written. I don’t want to mutate my precious idea of the piece aiaiai
One of the reasons I enjoy producing these videos is the way in which I can learn little details here and there. I also had that impression, just listening to this piece, and thought there was some metrical shifting going on in there at the beginning. The first video I produced (which I look back on and see I need to rework to bring it in line to current production standards) I was following along in the score, and got to one particular note. I was thinking to myself "wait, a _bassoon_ is making that sound?"
what orchestra and conductor is this?
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy.
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30:20 is what you're looking for...trumpet players...and 43:45....for all brass.
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Flutes:
4 mvt: 33:09
Flutes with bassoons, an interesting combination. Though another piece I've put up here has clarinet carrying the soft melody in unison with trombone.
@@SynchroScore I mentioned it because it is written in Trevor Wye's book with flute orchestral excerpts ;)
@@myflutemusic You can also find in my catalog the complete score of Tchaikovsky's _Nutcracker_ that introduced the world to flutter-tonguing.
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Glad you also like that bit.
Excerpt 1: 1:19
Excerpt 2: 10:52
Excerpt 3: 22:35
Lo hiso con sibelius.
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I wish there was something I could do about that, but I can't. Perhaps there is something you can do about that.
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Glad you like that bit.
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