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Jean Sibelius
Pelléas et Mélisande
Cassazione
Presto
Suite mignonne
Suite champêtre
Suite caractérístíque

Tapiola Sinfonietta
Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, conductor

Orchestral

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish

Format:
CD

Released:
April 2000

Catalogue No.:
ODE 952-2

EAN/UPC Code:
0761195095225

55:49

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

1

Cassazione, Op. 6

10:28

2

Presto

4:41

Suite mignonne, Op. 98a

5:45

3

I. Petite scène

2:04

4

II. Polka

1:47

5

III. Epilogue

2:04

Suite champêtre, Op. 98b

6:22

6

I. Pièce caractéristique

2:01

7

II. Melodíe élégíaque

2:59

8

III. Danse

1:32

Suite caractéristique, Op. 100

4:27

9

I. Vivo

1:07

10

II. Lento

1:52

11

III. Comodo

1:38

Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 46

23:26

12

I. At the Castle Gate

2:08

13

II. Melisande

3:48

14

IIa. At the Seashore

1:48

15

III. A Spring in the Park

1:47

16

IV. The Three Blind Sisters

2:32

17

V. Pastorale

1:49

18

VI. Melisande at the Spinning Wheel

1:41

19

VII. Entr'acte

2:23

20

VIII. The Death of Melisande

5:39

This CD contains works by Jean Sibelius worthy of discovery: The concert version of his incidental music to the symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck (cor anglais solo: Marja Talka) is coupled with less-known orchestral works, three minor suites from the early 1920s, Presto for strings (arrangement of the third movement of the String Quartet Op. 4) and Cassazione.

The recordings were made at the Tapiola Hall in Espoo in February 2000, featuring Tuomas Ollila and the Tapiola Sinfonietta of which he has been a regular conductor.