San Francisco Symphony - Sibelius- Symphony No. 5 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony release Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5, recorded live in concert with Salonen and the Orchestra in June 2022.

Composed in 1915, Jean Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony was commissioned by the Finnish government to celebrate the composer’s 50th birthday, which was declared a national holiday. When he returned home a year earlier from a recent successful trip to America, he heard the news of the assassination at Sarajevo of the heir to the Austrian throne. He had scarcely settled into his life again when, to his horror and disbelief, virtually all Europe was at war. Sibelius had jotted these words in his notebook: “In a deep valley again. But I already begin to see dimly the mountain that I shall certainly ascend….. God opens His door for a moment and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.”

TRACKLIST

1. San Francisco Symphony - Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 82: I. Tempo molto moderato (1915 Version)
2. San Francisco Symphony - Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 82: II. Andante mosso, quasi allegretto (1915 Version)
3. San Francisco Symphony - Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 82: III. Allegro molto (1915 Version)



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