Sibelius himself said that von Karajan was his favorite conductor of his music because von Karajan was the only one out there who truly understood him.
(0:00) I. Allegretto (09:54) II. Tempo andante, ma rubato - Andante sostenuto - Allegro - Andante sostenuto (24:31) III. Vivacissimo - Lento e soave - Tempo primo - Lento e soave - Largamente (31:15) IV. Finale. Allegro moderato
So many conductors rush the final movement. No-one brings Sibelius to life better than the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Karajan, and really brings out the power of that final movement like no-one else. Masterful.
Karajan had a magical touch with Sibelius and Wagner. Everything he conducted by these composers usually required a broad perspective and a linear approach with long phrases.
Los músicos de la Filarmónica de Berlín se merecen el cielo por esta interpretación. No he escuchado a ninguna orquesta lograr el sonido tan sublime que logra esta orquesta con las sinfonías de Sibelius.Se trata,sencillamente,de un sonido a la vez que celestial,telúrico.
Sibelius 2nd was my first exposure to the composer. I was bowled over. Then I listened to the 7th, which sits atop the canon of the Western symphonic tradition.
I (slightly) prefer Blomstedt / San Francisco Symphony for this one, for both interpretation and sound, along with fabulous orchestral playing. (But I like Karajan better for 5-7). But this one is also very good, better than another EMI recording he made.
MONUMENTAL im besten Sinn!!! Welche Kraft, welche Energie, welche Dynamik - in einem den Höhepunkt unruhig ersehnenden, erstrebenden, schließlich aber auch erreichenden Ineinander von sanft, zart, schön und friedlich mit wild, bizarr, eruptiv und gewaltig ... schwer zu beschreiben, aber herrlich zu hören!!!
Richard Wagner would have been a Sibelius admirer, had he lived somewhat longer, I imagine. The grandeur would have been something Wagner could have loved.
Verissimo, la musica va infinitamente oltre la dimensione linguistica. L'esecuzione di Karajan è superba, affiancherei quella di Szell (che peraltro era un ammiratore di Karajan).
@LjiljanaStanic: Very true. Music goes infinitely beyond ordinary language. The execution of Karajan is superb, alongside that of Szell, who was also an admirer of Karajan.
Karajan et Sibelius, c'est comme Karajan et Strauss, toujours un sommet. Là c'est brûlant et grandiose, pour une des plus grandes symphonies de tous les temps. La fin fait sortir de la réalité...
I did not know her. Beautiful symphony. Great melodic vein, especially in the last movement, by Sibelius. As always Karajan proves to be an extraordinary interpreter of the late symphonic.
As an old man Sibelius is supposed to have said: " He [von Karajan, then a young man] is the only conductor who understands my music." And in my personal opinion, given the Deutsche Grammophon recordings, he was damned right.
Karajan è, a mio parere, il più geniale interprete della musica di Jean Sibelius. E' una questione di affinità interiore. Senza nulla togliere a geni cosmici come Toscanini o Furtwangler.
Perfettamente d'accordo, anche se personalmente arturo lo vedo in un universo molto lontano e del tutto diverso dagli altri due. Su di lui penso quello che ne pensava Shostakovich. Ma è solo la mia opinione. Musica stupenda resa stuoendamente, da un "genio cosmico".....
La 2 sinfonía de Sibelius pertenece al grupo de obras que grabó (dos veces) y que no lllegó a hacer en concierto o hizo sólo una vez. La única vez que la hizo fue en concierto que se dio los días 24 y 25 de febrero de 1962 en Viena con la Sinfónica de Viena. En el programa estaban el Concierto para tres pianos K242 de Mozart (Badura-Skoda, Alexander Jenner y Karajan) y el"Impromptu para orquesta" de Fortner. Otro ejemplo vendría a ser la 1 sinfonía de Sibelius que sólo hizo el 8 y 9 de febrero de 1942 en Berlín con la Staatskapelle de Berlín ( en concierto se dieron "los Preludios" de Liszt y el 1 concierto para violín d Bruch, con Gioconda de Vito al violín). Para grabarlo una vez en febrero de 1981, en la que atesora la mejor interpretación del disco; con un final de una belleza y una intensidad emocional sin paragón; a su lado Bernstein, Maazel o Davies palidecen.
@@chemapg6966 De acuerdo con usted si nos referimos a la 2 de Sibelius; Bernstein con F. de Viena posiblemente es la más heterodoxa, enfática y genial de las interpretaciones de esta obra. También la última de Colin Davies con la S. de Londres estaría ahí. Szell o Monteux, son opciones que han estado siempre en las preferencias de los melómanos. Pero hay que señalar,y no es baladí, que los registros de Bernstein y Davies provienen de interpretaciones en vivo y que, en este caso, lo de Karajan son grabaciones de estudio. En cuanto a la opulencia , juega un papel determinante el sonido propio de la Filarmónica de Berlín. En el caso de la primera, sí admito lo que denomina sonido opulento pero en cuanto a íntensidad- torrencial- del mismo final, la forma natural de hacer brotar el tema lírico y elégiaco cuando es expuesto por tercera y última vez pasando de maderas y metales a los violines es de dificil superación.
Are you sure that Karajan actually conducted this 2nd? In the 1970s DGG Karajan Sibelius cycle, his student Okko Kamu conducted the first three symphonies.
You are right but this recording is the one for EMI (now Warner) and not from 60's (a note: What you call 'Karajan Sibelius cycle' with Kamu is from 60's, not 70's), it is from late 70's (or maybe early 80's)
I hear it too. It is indeed the first bassoon, who has a C sharp ( an open fifth with the second bassoon playing the F sharp below), but it sounds as if he misreads the C sharp as a C natural for a split second, before correcting it. It rather resembles the bagpipes as a result. And yes- incredible that either the producer and Karajan didn't notice; the player didn't own up to it; or they let it go- Karajan was, after all, such a perfectionist.
@@paulybarr Actually there are testimonies of players who worked under Karajan that he was not caring about certain mistakes what happened during recording sessions although he was informed about it by the player himself who made the mistake and he'd refuse a retake. A famous example is the very clear trumpet fail in the final movement of his sole recording of Sinfonia Domestica by R. Strauss. Here same thing might have had happened. Probably Karajan and recording producer realized the error but they didn't 'mind it'.
I do not know if this is the best record of this symphony (I prefer the record of Bernsteins eith Viena), anyway some things is very very good. There are excerpts of brilliantly worked and deep, especially the pianos moments and the transformations with crescendo dynamic. Bravo!
Please to excuse me if I dissent: the sound is majestic in each its part but Sibelius is not affected by Bruckner cyclopics syndrome , He is full of naturalistic lirisms, more panisms than epic accents, never assertive, with a impressionistic and modern sense of the forma. This is only a personal listen esperience
I do prefer a faster tempo in the finale... the orchestra is giving it all they have but the slower tempo leaves a lot of holes in the orchestration that I don't think Sibelius intended. The beginning of the 4th mov. to me is a "victory"... here it feels shallow
I agree. The great ending loses momentum and that feeling of exhilaration. Although I've been an ardent admirer of Karajan for over 60 years, I feel he hasn't quite nailed the atmosphere of this piece. When it comes to recordings, there are several others I prefer. Not least, Sir John Barbirolli's account with the Halle Orchestra. While 'the Halle' might lack the sumptuous beauty of the Berliners, they know how to set this piece alight.
I cherish many of Karajan’s Sibelius recordings, especially that of the 5th Symphony from the 1970s, but for honesty’s sake I’ve to say that his account of the 2nd does not rank among the best. It is rigid and timid in its obstinate grandeur. Karajan practically messes up the finale by breaking apart the progression of it. From Karajan’s contemporaries, I would listen Leonard Bernstein and Wiener Philharmoniker in contrast to understand how lively and energetic this symphony can be without loosing any elegance and light that it has. Still Karajan’s recording is interesting to listen: how different interpretations there. can be of the masterpieces that we already know so well.
I don’t like Karajan in anything, except his early recordings with the Philharmonia, they were very good on the whole. His later practices were just an assembly line of hundreds of recordings.
He did produce a large volume of recordings. That fact can co-exist with the reality that this is an amazing interpretation of one of the best symphonies ever composed.
Sorry Her Karajan you conducted Sibelius like you are conducting Anton Bruckner, I don't see the tenderness of the land or the poetry of the deep forest.
Ivan Hernandez Sibelius did not actually intend to create landscape or wood images with his sounds. The interpretation of associating his second symphony to Finnish landscapes is quite outdated. Sibelius, in my opinion, is creating musical experiences and not images...
Thank you Julia.Just wright what you say.Karajan is bigest music interpret of thimes.Perfekt sound,very exact professional orkestra sound.Karajan nothing put under improvisation but is very exact.Karajan condact without partiture.All aders condact always from score,becose its fantastic difficult , lots of work and practishen and practic.Karajan makes music.Highest level.Very greath Europien music genios. Finnish people and orkhestras never reach so perfect playing quality,thay have not god quality ,instrumental technik Its always very direct emotions,very loud sounds.Offen very agressiv becose have not a such deep orchestra culture.To day nobody practising more like Karajan and work with orchestra like Karajan.All to day is ready big maestros.Greath Souls like Karajan practice all life.Very big concentration,work,work.Discipline.
I believe Sibelius composed a lot of this symphony when he was abroad, in Italy I think it was. The forest/landscape bit you mentioned would be apt for Bruckner's sound-wald.
The tympani here is over-recorded, at times nearly drowning out the other instruments. A pity, as it's a decent interpretation of the symphony otherwise.
Sibelius himself said that von Karajan was his favorite conductor of his music because von Karajan was the only one out there who truly understood him.
This is the piece that made little high school sophomore me decide to major in performance.
The ending gets me every time.
最終楽章の最大の盛り上がりを、広大で清澄、優美に演じてくれるカラヤン。やはり分かってるなぁ。
Karajan surely
brings out warmth
in this sibelian
masterwork ❤
(0:00) I. Allegretto
(09:54) II. Tempo andante, ma rubato - Andante sostenuto - Allegro - Andante sostenuto
(24:31) III. Vivacissimo - Lento e soave - Tempo primo - Lento e soave - Largamente
(31:15) IV. Finale. Allegro moderato
So many conductors rush the final movement. No-one brings Sibelius to life better than the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Karajan, and really brings out the power of that final movement like no-one else. Masterful.
That first movement is mind boggling.
I'm just intoxicated with the greatness of Sibelius and Karajan
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
This tempo is VERY mature. I've never heard it this broad. I have to say, it's so majestic at this tempo!!
Für mich ist dies die beste Einspielung 👍
Thank you for your comment. I think you are absolutely correct. This is the first time I hear this version. Just extraordinary!
Karajañ you're
so fascinating ❤
Karajan had a magical touch with Sibelius and Wagner. Everything he conducted by these composers usually required a broad perspective and a linear approach with long phrases.
Los músicos de la Filarmónica de Berlín se merecen el cielo por esta interpretación. No he escuchado a ninguna orquesta lograr el sonido tan sublime que logra esta orquesta con las sinfonías de Sibelius.Se trata,sencillamente,de un sonido a la vez que celestial,telúrico.
The finale is glorious! The trumpets are simply perfect
In Karajan's hands gold become diamond! ...excellent interpretation.
Das ist wohl das Schönste was es in der Rubrik Sinfonien gibt. Jean Sibelius war ein absolutes Genie, was dieses Genre angeht. Was für ein Wohlklang!
I just cry of joy everytime with this Interpretation, is too much for me...
Sibelius 2nd was my first exposure to the composer. I was bowled over. Then I listened to the 7th, which sits atop the canon of the Western symphonic tradition.
absolutely love that 7th. To me the best of the C major symphonies anyone has ever written. But that's just me.
I'd forgotten how lovely that symphony is. Thank you.
Me too. Good thing I remembered before I kick the bucket.
@@drisgorilla5382 Wouldn't have mattered if you hadn't remembered-this is probably what's playing in heaven.
This performance
is the center of
my joy!!!!
Браво симфония 2 композитор Сибелиус ! Браво оркестр и дирижор Караян! Спасибо. Браво!
This is the best version I have ever listened
Your comment is perfect.
You are right, this is the very best interpretation i have ever heard as well !
Sibelius and Von Karanan is just one of those perfect matches, like Bernstein and Mahler.
I (slightly) prefer Blomstedt / San Francisco Symphony for this one, for both interpretation and sound, along with fabulous orchestral playing. (But I like Karajan better for 5-7). But this one is also very good, better than another EMI recording he made.
Did you heard the version with Bernstein?
MONUMENTAL im besten Sinn!!! Welche Kraft, welche Energie, welche Dynamik - in einem den Höhepunkt unruhig ersehnenden, erstrebenden, schließlich aber auch erreichenden Ineinander von sanft, zart, schön und friedlich mit wild, bizarr, eruptiv und gewaltig ... schwer zu beschreiben, aber herrlich zu hören!!!
6:13 a little fragment of Sibelius Concerto!
Was für ein Blech! Unübertrefflich strahlend!
Richard Wagner would have been a Sibelius admirer, had he lived somewhat longer, I imagine. The grandeur would have been something Wagner could have loved.
I can only listen and admire ...-Music begins where the possibilities of language end-...Fascinating interpretation!
Verissimo, la musica va infinitamente oltre la dimensione linguistica. L'esecuzione di Karajan è superba, affiancherei quella di Szell (che peraltro era un ammiratore di Karajan).
@LjiljanaStanic: Very true. Music goes infinitely beyond ordinary language. The execution of Karajan is superb, alongside that of Szell, who was also an admirer of Karajan.
Thank you!
@@renato45222 Grazie💕
@@ljiljanastanic9076 ppppppppp
E' sempre un piacere ascoltare Sibelius con Karajan, i Berliner e ... l'amore che il direttore aveva per il maestro!
最初にこれを聴いてしまったので、他の指揮者や楽団の演奏がどうしても「なんか違う」になってしまった曲。
やっぱり今聴いても「これなんだよな。これ」って感じです笑
わかります
Karajan et Sibelius, c'est comme Karajan et Strauss, toujours un sommet. Là c'est brûlant et grandiose, pour une des plus grandes symphonies de tous les temps. La fin fait sortir de la réalité...
Majestic performance!
I did not know her. Beautiful symphony. Great melodic vein, especially in the last movement, by Sibelius. As always Karajan proves to be an extraordinary interpreter of the late symphonic.
Speechless
Transported quickly into the rugged wilderness of the North - magnificent
32:19 / 40:28 = this is the part why i love Sibelius
Herbies Sibelius is one of the GREATEST ever recorded, no schmoozing with sound as usual..
カラヤンのベルリン・フィルは相変わらず何やらせても素敵だな。
この作品においてこの演奏を超える名演って果たしてあるんだろうか？
少なくとも私には想像出来ない。
Thank you for the upload!
流麗で、流れるような調べ！音楽の「美しさ」を感じさせてくれる演奏だ。
Enorme sinfonía y gran interprete !!!
31:50... wooooow,EEEEEPIC !!!!
Bravo!...Grandioso!
Que version mas bella por Dios
La interpretación de Karajan es realmente imponente. Una obra de una grandeza pocas veces alcanzada.
Pruebe a Barbirolli y la RPO (no la Hallé): th-cam.com/video/B5GwvCLtJ_U/w-d-xo.html Y después me cuent...
La versión de Sir Malcolm Sargent es maravillosa y de muchas emociones.
wonderful
Life!!! 👍❗😁❤
It’s as if Karajan was born to conduct Sibelius, just like Bernstein was born to conduct Mahler
Analogy so apt wish I'd thought of it!
As an old man Sibelius is supposed to have said: " He [von Karajan, then a young man] is the only conductor who understands my music." And in my personal opinion, given the Deutsche Grammophon recordings, he was damned right.
Yes. But, Maybe Karajan was born to make music and Bernstein too. ❤❤
Increíble
Karajan è, a mio parere, il più geniale interprete della musica di Jean Sibelius. E' una questione di affinità interiore. Senza nulla togliere a geni cosmici come Toscanini o Furtwangler.
Perfettamente d'accordo, anche se personalmente arturo lo vedo in un universo molto lontano e del tutto diverso dagli altri due. Su di lui penso quello che ne pensava Shostakovich. Ma è solo la mia opinione. Musica stupenda resa stuoendamente, da un "genio cosmico".....
Sublime comprensión la del maestro.
blood orange is here. thank you dev, didn't know Sibelius yet :D
Impressive.
Brasil !!!!
gosh sounds like the best Tchaikovsky, never ends to surprise me Sibelius
The best part of this one reminds me of Rachmaninoff's second - highs of romantic music were reached
From PERSIA, Armenia, GoergiA with Passion
.....and from Mexico City.....BRAVO!
Bravissimo
La 2 sinfonía de Sibelius pertenece al grupo de obras que grabó (dos veces) y que no lllegó a hacer en concierto o hizo sólo una vez. La única vez que la hizo fue en concierto que se dio los días 24 y 25 de febrero de 1962 en Viena con la Sinfónica de Viena. En el programa estaban el Concierto para tres pianos K242 de Mozart (Badura-Skoda, Alexander Jenner y Karajan) y el"Impromptu para orquesta" de Fortner. Otro ejemplo vendría a ser la 1 sinfonía de Sibelius que sólo hizo el 8 y 9 de febrero de 1942 en Berlín con la Staatskapelle de Berlín ( en concierto se dieron "los Preludios" de Liszt y el 1 concierto para violín d Bruch, con Gioconda de Vito al violín). Para grabarlo una vez en febrero de 1981, en la que atesora la mejor interpretación del disco; con un final de una belleza y una intensidad emocional sin paragón; a su lado Bernstein, Maazel o Davies palidecen.
Opulencia es el sello de Karajan. Que abruma. Pero en intensidad prefiero Bernstein. Y qué decir de la mejor versión: Szell en Japon live 1970
@@chemapg6966 De acuerdo con usted si nos referimos a la 2 de Sibelius; Bernstein con F. de Viena posiblemente es la más heterodoxa, enfática y genial de las interpretaciones de esta obra. También la última de Colin Davies con la S. de Londres estaría ahí. Szell o Monteux, son opciones que han estado siempre en las preferencias de los melómanos. Pero hay que señalar,y no es baladí, que los registros de Bernstein y Davies provienen de interpretaciones en vivo y que, en este caso, lo de Karajan son grabaciones de estudio. En cuanto a la opulencia , juega un papel determinante el sonido propio de la Filarmónica de Berlín. En el caso de la primera, sí admito lo que denomina sonido opulento pero en cuanto a íntensidad- torrencial- del mismo final, la forma natural de hacer brotar el tema lírico y elégiaco cuando es expuesto por tercera y última vez pasando de maderas y metales a los violines es de dificil superación.
@@jesussendra6540 日本人の朝比奈隆さんの評価は外国ではどうなのでしょうか？
One of the ones you have to hear before-------.
For once a Sibelius 2nd that doesn't drag along.
And Paavo Järvi, Ashkenazy(a little bit) and Osmo Vänska
I wouldn`t expect anything less from one of the greatest Sibelius interpreters.
Wonderful! Does anyone know when and where this was recorded?
13:45 😍
元 総理小泉純一郎氏も大好き🍀😌🍀お気に入りの一曲でした
Are you sure that Karajan actually conducted this 2nd? In the 1970s DGG Karajan Sibelius cycle, his student Okko Kamu conducted the first three symphonies.
Ja, die Aufnahme ist von Karajan. Ich habe sie auf CD.
You are right but this recording is the one for EMI (now Warner) and not from 60's (a note: What you call 'Karajan Sibelius cycle' with Kamu is from 60's, not 70's), it is from late 70's (or maybe early 80's)
@31:55 Weird flat bassoon intonation wolf from the BP on a pro recording, no?
I hear it too. It is indeed the first bassoon, who has a C sharp ( an open fifth with the second bassoon playing the F sharp below), but it sounds as if he misreads the C sharp as a C natural for a split second, before correcting it. It rather resembles the bagpipes as a result. And yes- incredible that either the producer and Karajan didn't notice; the player didn't own up to it; or they let it go- Karajan was, after all, such a perfectionist.
@@paulybarr Actually there are testimonies of players who worked under Karajan that he was not caring about certain mistakes what happened during recording sessions although he was informed about it by the player himself who made the mistake and he'd refuse a retake. A famous example is the very clear trumpet fail in the final movement of his sole recording of Sinfonia Domestica by R. Strauss. Here same thing might have had happened. Probably Karajan and recording producer realized the error but they didn't 'mind it'.
35:57
43:43
1:33, 3:02, 7:04
33:05, 39:23, 39:59, 40:22
私は朝比奈さんのブルックナーが大好きだったので、彼のシベリウスも好きでした。ｶﾗﾔﾝ帝王は私が高校時代？もっと前かな？来日して騒がれた時の演目の中にブルックナーN
O7があり感動しました。
but このシベリウスは少し冗長に過ぎるように素人のﾜﾀｸｼには感じてしまいました🐼
💕🎶👏🌹☀️💫🌈
⛹️♀️
👁️👂
I do not know if this is the best record of this symphony (I prefer the record of Bernsteins eith Viena), anyway some things is very very good. There are excerpts of brilliantly worked and deep, especially the pianos moments and the transformations with crescendo dynamic. Bravo!
Try listening to the Paavo Berglund Bournemouth box set. I think you'll like it better.
1:10 ! 777 12:22 !
30:42
Please to excuse me if I dissent: the sound is majestic in each its part but Sibelius is not affected by Bruckner cyclopics syndrome , He is full of naturalistic lirisms, more panisms than epic accents, never assertive, with a impressionistic and modern sense of the forma. This is only a personal listen esperience
12:29
25:02
16:10
5:28
31:56
Geez. Timestamps anyone?
天ぷらの作り方
I do prefer a faster tempo in the finale... the orchestra is giving it all they have but the slower tempo leaves a lot of holes in the orchestration that I don't think Sibelius intended. The beginning of the 4th mov. to me is a "victory"... here it feels shallow
that being said... this is still a masterful recording in many ways. thanks for uploading
I agree. The great ending loses momentum and that feeling of exhilaration. Although I've been an ardent admirer of Karajan for over 60 years, I feel he hasn't quite nailed the atmosphere of this piece. When it comes to recordings, there are several others I prefer. Not least, Sir John Barbirolli's account with the Halle Orchestra. While 'the Halle' might lack the sumptuous beauty of the Berliners, they know how to set this piece alight.
It's the exact opposite for me. The faster renditions leave out the substance that the slow tempo conveys, in my opinion.
There was an ad in the middle of the 3rd movement. What were you thinking? Dislike.
Tell those who own the copyright.
I cherish many of Karajan’s Sibelius recordings, especially that of the 5th Symphony from the 1970s, but for honesty’s sake I’ve to say that his account of the 2nd does not rank among the best. It is rigid and timid in its obstinate grandeur. Karajan practically messes up the finale by breaking apart the progression of it. From Karajan’s contemporaries, I would listen Leonard Bernstein and Wiener Philharmoniker in contrast to understand how lively and energetic this symphony can be without loosing any elegance and light that it has. Still Karajan’s recording is interesting to listen: how different interpretations there. can be of the masterpieces that we already know so well.
shut up. sit back and enjoy.
Totally agree with you!! @@jomahone4704
The finale is too slow
But not Celebedache slow! Give Karajan some credit for not setting the Guinness Book of World Records record for slow Sibelius 2d records!
Mr. mass-production! That’s all he is to me.
Could you tell us more about what you dislike in Karajan's rendition of this symphony ?
I don’t like Karajan in anything, except his early recordings with the Philharmonia, they were very good on the whole. His later practices were just an assembly line of hundreds of recordings.
I do not agree with you but... De gustibus non est disputandum !
He did produce a large volume of recordings. That fact can co-exist with the reality that this is an amazing interpretation of one of the best symphonies ever composed.
Sorry Her Karajan you conducted Sibelius like you are conducting Anton Bruckner, I don't see the tenderness of the land or the poetry of the deep forest.
Ivan Hernandez Sibelius did not actually intend to create landscape or wood images with his sounds. The interpretation of associating his second symphony to Finnish landscapes is quite outdated. Sibelius, in my opinion, is creating musical experiences and not images...
Thank you Julia.Just wright what you say.Karajan is bigest music interpret of thimes.Perfekt sound,very exact professional orkestra sound.Karajan nothing put under improvisation but is very exact.Karajan condact without partiture.All aders condact always from score,becose its fantastic difficult , lots of work and practishen and practic.Karajan makes music.Highest level.Very greath Europien music genios.
Finnish people and orkhestras never reach so perfect playing quality,thay have not god quality ,instrumental technik Its always very direct emotions,very loud sounds.Offen very agressiv becose have not a such deep orchestra culture.To day nobody practising more like Karajan and work with orchestra like Karajan.All to day is ready big maestros.Greath Souls like Karajan practice all life.Very big concentration,work,work.Discipline.
I believe Sibelius composed a lot of this symphony when he was abroad, in Italy I think it was. The forest/landscape bit you mentioned would be apt for Bruckner's sound-wald.
Check it out people, Sibelius himself said HvK was the only conductor who really understood him.
I hate it how they put Karajan's face on it as if he's the real star here
I like it how they put Karajan's face on it as if he's the real star here. That's so cool !
The man had an imposing mug. If he had shaken his baton at me for more volume, I would have given it to him.
too fast
The tympani here is over-recorded, at times nearly drowning out the other instruments. A pity, as it's a decent interpretation of the symphony otherwise.
Yes, it's as if it was a concerto for tympani.
I’m going against the grain, but Karajan played this slightly too fast. It ruins the mood of the piece.
Okko Kamu and BPO are vast superior in Sibelius 2 than Karajan
The first three movements: forgettable. Only the last has a memorable melody.
Try training your memory!
42:19
44:28