「西貝流士：藍敏凱寧組曲 (四首傳奇曲)」
「伯沙薩王的盛宴組曲」

─ 薩卡利．歐拉莫 Sakari Oramo／指揮
─ BBC交響樂團 BBC Symphony Orchestra

芬蘭指揮家薩卡利．歐拉莫是英國BBC交響樂團自2013年迄今的首席指揮, 他對同胞作曲家西貝流士的音樂有一份特別親近的情感, 在這張專輯中令人讚佩的表現出來.

西貝流士在1890年編寫(藍敏凱寧)組曲,作品22(也被稱為:來自卡列瓦拉的四首傳奇曲), 是根據最初是構想給一部神劇(造船, Veneen luominen)的素材, 此組曲專注在芬蘭史詩人物:來自卡列拉瓦的藍敏凱寧.

西貝流士在1906年編寫十首配樂給雅瑪.普羅柯沛(Hjalmar Procope)的戲劇(伯沙薩王的盛宴). 該劇在同年十一月在赫爾辛基的瑞典劇院首演, 由作曲家親自指揮. 他在次年取出其中的四個樂章組合成為眾所週知,收錄在此專輯中的管弦樂組曲.

Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2013, Sakari Oramo has a special affinity with the music of his compatriot the Finnish composer Sibelius, which this recording admirably demonstrates.

Sibelius’s ever-popular Lemminkainen Suite is complemented here with the early Spring Song and the lesser-known Suite from Belshazzar’s Feast.

Sibelius composed the Lemminkainen Suite (also called the Four Legends, or Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 in the 1890s. Drawing on material originally conceived for a mythological opera, Veneen luominen (The Building of the Boat), the suite focuses on the character Lemminkainen from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.

In 1906 Sibelius composed ten numbers of incidental music for the play Belshazzar’s Feast (by Hjalmar Procope), which was first performed in the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki in November of that year, the composer conducting. The following year, Sibelius extracted four of the movements to form the more widely known orchestral suite that we hear in this recording.