Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1,2,5 &7

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1,2,5 &7

Bernstein was planning to conduct all of the Sibelius symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic in his last years, but never completed the project. Judging by the four he did record – lush, over-emphatic, wayward in tempos – we haven’t missed out. Michael Tanner


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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:32 pm

COMPOSERS: Sibelius
LABELS: C Major
WORKS: Symphonies Nos 1, 2, 5 & 7
PERFORMER: Vienna PO/Leonard Bernstein
CATALOGUE NO: 702208

Bernstein was planning to conduct all of the Sibelius symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic in his last years, but never completed the project. Judging by the four he did record – lush, over-emphatic, wayward in tempos – we haven’t missed out. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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