Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 - III. Allegro molto - London Philharmonic Orchestra
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- When Jean Sibelius saw a flight of swans in the sunset, he knew that he had the ending of his Fifth Symphony: ‘I’ve never seen such beauty!’. With the LPO’s Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis, it’s the climax of a concert that spans continents and crosses decades.
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The finale of his 5th always brings tears to my eyes. It takes me back to very many years ago in the early 1960s when three of us music majors at Sam Houston State College in Huntsville TX went into the Old Main Auditorium very late one night with an RCA vinyl disc of this symphony and set an old-fashioned portable "record player" on the stage of that ancient gothic building. We put the disc on and turned it up as loud as it would play, stood at the back of that darkened building and listened to the finale of the 5th resounding through those incredible acoustics. That memory lives in my soul to this day and is re-awakened every time I hear this. I am 78 now, and nearing the end of my journey. We want to go back and re-live those youthful days again, do we not, with the wisdom and experience we have now. PS: Old Main in Huntsville TX is reputedly where Leopold Stokowsky liked to do his Houston Symphony recording sessions because of the awesome acoustics there. At least, that was what I was told back then. The building sadly burned down a few decades ago.
‘We want to go back and relive those youthful days”. How right you are and nothing compares to great music to bring our happiest days back to life again. I feel privileged to have been introduced to one of mankind’s greatest cultural achievements at an early age and my love of music has been the foundation to a wonderful life. Sibelius, btw, is along with Berlioz, my favourite composer.
What a wonderful experience for you!
Different people... different music nostalgia.Your beautiful memory has sparked one of mine. My own similar ale I as a 16 year old. Once in my town in Ireland there was a nightclub. The biggest and pretty much the best in Europe at one stage. It brought catholics and protestants together- having fun at the weekends. I knew the owners son and one day, after a shopping spree of teenaged clothes, records and tapes (this was 1982), he brought us in to see this famous club (to us and thousands of northern Irish young people). He brought us into the DJ box and played our haul of music incredibly loudly... Human League, New Order and the likes are not quite the incredible finale of the 5th, but a perfect memory from those dark days in NI.
I listened to all of Sibelius' symphonies today on vinyl, including No. 5. But seeing accomplished musicians engaged in a collective expression of beauty brought tears to my eyes. Music is not just meant to be listened to but to be seen.
@@mariochavez1751 being seen is a plus, but not essential. Music is meant to be heard and listened to. That's it. Imo.
I don’t want to sound stereotypical, but this version just sounds more smooth, calm, and elegant than all the other male conductor’s versions. It is truly the swans flying with beauty, confidence, and strength
Not stereotypical. Just an odd opinion. I think this is a very bad performance. Thanks to this conductor.
Quite right. This is one of the best versions out there. Smooth, measured, paced, and full of emotion and dynamics. I don't hold with the conductors facial expressions, they are all a bit too sexual for my liking, but she gets the job done.
Spine-tingling music, the swan theme is the most majestic theme ever written.
Couldn't say it better myself. The various brass groupings were all so perfect and dynamic. I never appreciated Sibelius' Fifth so much. (First time I've see the conductor.) Apr. 23. 2023. St. Joseph, MO, USA. (I'd die without TH-cam, BTW.)
Great interpretation and performance. When the horns blast their way into the world, I have bursted out of the dark tunnel, gliding with the white swans over the boiling dark ocean, the hymn like chorus gently lift our wings, leading us towards Heaven, the tear of joy fills my eyes. Sublime, magnificent beyond words.
Tears, every single time
Honestly this is the most beautiful symphony i've heard in my whole life. I've traveled 180 miles to listen this symphony live and cried a lot watching the maestro conducting the orchestra
It's not a song. It's a piece. A symphony.
@@organboi sorry, English is not my native language
@@eid2676
No need to apologise.
Your English is fine.
Haven't listened to this "swan call" movement for ages. Brought me to tears! Easily the best performance of Sibelius I listened to. It can sound awful in the wrong director's hands... but this is glorious! Would love to hear the full performance.
This reminds me of our journeys from Picton to Wellington in our Campervan.
The last notes being the loading ramp lowering at the dock.
Happy memories.😊😊
Goosebumps all over.
That slower pace at the end, so masterfully played, is heart-stirring. Bravo!
Simple, but so moving: the secong time the horns come in, they are plaing basically the same music but in a lower register. I just love that idea by Sibelius. Apr. 26. 2023, St. Joseph, MO, USA
I've long been dubious about the final chords being the stroke of genius that people say they are - but in this performance they are really convincing. I thought it was going a little slowly but at the end it's all justified. Magnificent.
The problem with the final chords is in conducting! Too many conductors try to accentuate them, make them more than what they are so that they seem detached from what comes before. Conductors that understand them, and Canellakis obviously DOES understand them based on this majestic performance, just accept them as part of the natural flow of the music and don’t get in the way.
Sibelius instructs to speed up a bit leading into the final cadential chords.
It's worse than ever here. Sorry. I disagree. EVERYTHING is absurdly slow here. She doesn't know what she's doing.
@@organboiYou don’t have a clue.
@MD-md4th Right, like my educated opinion about the tempo is suddenly worthless because you say so. I see. I follow the score. I strive to understand what Sibelius wanted. It's in the score. It is NOT what Bernstein did to it, which many conductors have followed. A great many people have been perplexed by the strange ending, and it's because the conductors give rise to the confusion. Sibelius knew how to write a great majestic finale, as evidenced in the second symphony. No one should ever be scratching their head over another glorious ending. If it doesn't make sense to the listener, something is very wrong. Follow the score for blatant instructions and more subtle "clues." She conducts the ending way too slowly, against Sibelius' wishes.
The last 2 ending chords are perfectly played by the timpanist with the written grace notes
Yes! I waited expectantly to hear how accurately he would do that. Also, did you notice the double-basses playing the horn theme at 1/3 tempo with the horns?! As many times as I've heard this piece I had never noticed that before 😮
Music gives meaning to sound, from meaning to sound, is born emotion. Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat major, Op. 82, Movement III. Allegro molto. Of Sibelius' multi-movement symphonies, this is the only one where each movement is in a major key. This composition begins with a rapid melody in the strings, interpreted « tremolando » then the composer chain the brass and the first flutes. This movement is dominated by a horn motif said to have been inspired by the cries of swans taking flight. On this inspiration you hear one of his most famous melodies in strings and flutes. The movement contains one of the most uplifting key changes you will ever hear and ends with six huge chords played by the entire orchestra. Indeed, the finale ends with one of Sibelius' most original ideas : the six shifted chords of the final cadence, each separated by a silence. It goes without saying that the compositions of Jean Sibelius constitute a case study in the capriciousness of musical taste and the power of the artistic avant-garde. Citation : « A remarkable step forward on the way at the ideal of symphonic unity. With its fifth symphony, Jean Sibelius raises the genre of the symphony to an entirely new cyclical level. » Veijo Murtomäki. The orchestration led by Karina Canellakis with her musicians is really captivating if not more. My thanks to you all ! *Lucien*
Wow! This was a stunning performance. Bravo Karina and the LPO. I want to hear the other two movements now.
💙💙🌠❤Aina ihanaa Sibeliusta, niin jylhää, uljasta musiikkia❤
Oh my my, I so love the feeling.
Magnificent. Sibelius’ legendary ending.
Sibelius once remarked that when he got to Heaven he wanted to hear God's orchestra play his 5th symphony. It already sounds Heavenly played by this orchestra.
@@notmyworld44 In truth : The 2nd is the most beautiful and the most popular. Nos. 5 and 7 are of great instrumental richness without forgetting especially his symphonic poems « Finlandia » and « En Saga » which the latter is the most played and recorded in the world. This is that Sibelius for music lovers ! *Lucien*
@@LucienMarine One of the last pieces I ever played in symphony was his 7th, with the Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra (Arkansas). They have a TH-cam site. Look in the bass section for the whitest-haired, oldest, shortest bass player, 2nd chair. That's me! I'm not in any of them after 2017.
@@notmyworld44 Hi Wayne. Ya ! I think I found your profile. What is the composition that you appreciated or liked during your musical career ? And why ? The rehearsals are long before the auditions for the great public ? It must be according to the conductor of course. I am a great lover of Jean Sibelius ! He was an avant-garde composer who passed on to us a very beautiful heritage. His favorite musicians were Bach and Berlioz. His meeting with Gustav Mahler was fruitful for the rest of his career. Waiting to read you ! Thanks. *Lucien*
@@LucienMarine My most intense single moment in performance was with the Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra when we were playing the Enigma Variations by Elgar. The high point in the performance was in the "Nimrod" variation. It was the most powerful climactic moment I have ever experienced in music. My favorites overall are Delius & Debussy because their music is almost supernaturally sublime. Also Brahms, Elgar, and Dvorak, because their works are supremely noble and lofty in character. For melodic beauty of course, nothing and nobody equals Tchaikovsky. It's really hard to pick a clear favorite because each has his own flavor and character. I have played most of the major works of the above-named except Delius. American programmers just don't seem to like him or know anything by him except that Cuckoo piece. Blessings to you my friend.
Magic.
First class!
Beautiful indeed. Those rallentandos in the final measures are risky to bring home, but high yields here!! Bravo!
I first paid attention to the LPO in 1982 with their recording with John Lanchberry of "The Nutcracker" ballet, one of the first digital records. Their refined, polished sound hasn't changed in 40 years.
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I've so long enjoyed this composition, the first time I heard the sumptious climax to this movement was under Maazel's London label symphony boxset, later Blomstedt's SFSO boxset.
I'm used to it being a little quicker but an excellent performance I still enjoyed immensely
Thanks to the swans!
Formidável!
An excellent performance! Great clarity; maybe a tad slow but at the end it all came together.
The final two chords
really 😂 got me !!!!
nice
i'm here because professor Brian cox suggested that this music would be better for the film 2001..
..than Strauss??
this is great music when driving thru mountainous countryside at high speed....a real Top Gear moment
I don’t know who Brian Cox is, though based on that comment he’s clearly confused! How anybody could suggest that Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony would work with 2001 is quite strange.
@@MD-md4th an astro physicist.. quite famous in science communication with the public..
lots of documentaries and interviews etc
some really interesting stuff made with/for the bbc..
if ur interested in the universe and scientific discovery he is very good..
but..
don't know Sibelius and wondered what he was on about..
i still don't know! llol..
I am also here because of brain cox
Um, no. Just no. My God, so wrong.
not bad at all
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Celibidache's conducting influence? Good...!!!
I don't understand why they show the director so much time without the viewers we don't understand him. I want to see the orchestra and its music, not the director. If the director was so important to the viewer, he wouldn't turn his back on him all the time.
If you mean THE CONDUCTOR, yes, many of us feel that way. But in this case the conductor is a HER, and not a "him", AND SHE'S VERY PRETTY! So I don't mind so much. 😉👍
Maybe because this time, the conductor is both younger than average and female! Just remember, with all those musicians, her instrument is the orchestra itself!
Correct. I agree. The conductor is the LAST person they should be focusing on too much.