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The beautifully played Sibelius recordings by conductor Leif Segerstam and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra have often been revelatory, not least in the much-neglected area of the composer's theater music. Segerstam found much of interest in the composer's incidental music, the forerunner of the soundtracks Sibelius might well have written if he had lived in our time. But Scaramouche, Op. 71, composed in 1913, is something else again: it is music for a pantomime, a genre not much in evidence for today (although it certainly has affinities with the music video). The action of the mostly wordless play (there were a few spoken passages, excised in this performance) was continuous, and so, thus, was Sibelius' music. It is thus a genuine piece of dramatic music, of which there is very little in the Sibelius catalog, and for the most part it has more to do with the developmental thinking of the symphonies than it does with the incidental music scores. Consider the clear adumbrations of the Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105, not written until some years later (sample the little "Andantino" theme from Act II, Scene 3, track 13). The music is closely tied to the action of the pantomime, which is summarized in the booklet notes, but it can also stand on its own. Highly recommended to those who have been collecting Segerstam's whole series, for it shows a face of Sibelius that the other entries have not shown. Scaramouche has rarely, if ever, been recorded in its complete form, and it's something of a lost masterwork.
© TiVo
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Scaramouche, Op. 71, Act I (Jean Sibelius)
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Roi Ruottinen, Artist - Bendik Goldstein, Artist, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Roi Ruottinen, Artist - Bendik Goldstein, Artist, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Roi Ruottinen, Artist - Bendik Goldstein, Artist, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Roi Ruottinen, Artist - Bendik Goldstein, Artist, MainArtist
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Scaramouche, Op. 71, Act II (Jean Sibelius)
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Bendik Goldstein, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Leif Segerstam, Conductor - Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
Album review
The beautifully played Sibelius recordings by conductor Leif Segerstam and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra have often been revelatory, not least in the much-neglected area of the composer's theater music. Segerstam found much of interest in the composer's incidental music, the forerunner of the soundtracks Sibelius might well have written if he had lived in our time. But Scaramouche, Op. 71, composed in 1913, is something else again: it is music for a pantomime, a genre not much in evidence for today (although it certainly has affinities with the music video). The action of the mostly wordless play (there were a few spoken passages, excised in this performance) was continuous, and so, thus, was Sibelius' music. It is thus a genuine piece of dramatic music, of which there is very little in the Sibelius catalog, and for the most part it has more to do with the developmental thinking of the symphonies than it does with the incidental music scores. Consider the clear adumbrations of the Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105, not written until some years later (sample the little "Andantino" theme from Act II, Scene 3, track 13). The music is closely tied to the action of the pantomime, which is summarized in the booklet notes, but it can also stand on its own. Highly recommended to those who have been collecting Segerstam's whole series, for it shows a face of Sibelius that the other entries have not shown. Scaramouche has rarely, if ever, been recorded in its complete form, and it's something of a lost masterwork.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:49
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Bendik Goldstein Leif Segerstam Roi Ruottinen
- Composer: Jean Sibelius
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Finlande
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Post-romantic Music
(C) 2015 Naxos (P) 2015 Naxos
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