One for Sibelius fans

[LMcD]

Today's Lunchtime Concert included a Sibelius piece I'd never heard before - an early String Trio. The introduction starts 17'38'' in.

[BBMmk2]

Today's Lunchtime Concert included a Sibelius piece I'd never heard before - an early String Trio. The introduction starts 17'38'' in.

Not a bad one?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Spoiler Alert: it's not very good.

Worth hearing, though - and a couple of interesting ideas. I did think, as I was listening, that if the sketches of the Eighth Symphony ever get affordably published, I wouldn't mind making up an orchestral work combining those with the best ideas from this Trio.

[ahinton]

Spoiler Alert: it's not very good.

Worth hearing, though - and a couple of interesting ideas. I did think, as I was listening, that if the sketches of the Eighth Symphony ever get affordably published, I wouldn't mind making up an orchestral work combining those with the best ideas from this Trio.

Sibeliebte's "Symphony with Trio" (the prospective(?) title originating in Goehr's "Symphony with Chaconne"?...

The trouble is that, at least as far as I am aware, those sketches are about as extensive and informative as those for Elgar 3 (but then look what became of that!)...

[bluestateprommer]

Changing the thread stream, just heard the BBC SSO's concert of Sibelius' Kullervo with Thomas Dausgaard, plus an assembly of Finnish folk musicians in the 'prologue' that mashes up Finnish folk themes that may (or may not) have made their way into the Symphony, with parallel passages from the Symphony itself. While I still have mixed feelings about TD's appointment to the BBC SSO, all were on fine form in this concert. It was another very good programming idea of TD to add the folk musicians, very much in the spirit of the one Beethoven 9 concert and Rachmaninov Prom with other musical influences there on those works as well. Nice surprise at the very end of this Sibelius concert, which I won't spoil if you haven't already heard this one.