Composer of the Week - Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957)
Donald Macleod explores the myths and mysteries behind Sibelius's last, so-called 'silent' decades. With extracts from the composer's diary as well as a variety of rare pieces
Composer of the Week - Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957) - Episode 1
Donald Macleod explores outlines the background behind Sibelius's last, and perhaps greatest, major orchestral work - his tone poem Tapiola. Plus two church antiphons.
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Composer of the Week - Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957) - Episode 2
Donald Macleod presents an extended performance of Sibelius's incidental music for The Tempest, plus Vainon Virsi, the last work inspired by his love of the Kalevala national epic.
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Composer of the Week - Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957) - Episode 3
Donald Macleod untangles the full, tragic saga of Sibelius's Eighth Symphony - from its conception, through the composer's years of self-criticism, to the work's final destruction.
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Composer of the Week - Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957) - Episode 4
Donald Macleod presents the only existing recording of Sibelius conducting - the Funeral Music for organ, as well as two of the rarest works in his repertoire.
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Composer of the Week - Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957) - Episode 5
Donald Macleod presents Sibelius's late arrangements, plus a vintage performance of the finale from his great Fifth Symphony, recorded by Malcolm Sargent in 1958.
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