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  • Personaly i think it is too dark, since in our culture, " tuonela " is liberation for better life, not punishment.

    @KievanTiger

  • @puistis finnish folks and Tuonela are just a friends :)))

  • I don't see this dark but mystic. You can't really tell, what it seeks, that's why you will have the basic feeling, with arrows of full range of emotions to that base.

    Meaning, it is your pick, how you see this world.

    This music brings up your way of seeing the world and life. As it is it's beautifull opposite and positive.

    @puistis

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  • @KievanTiger That's what I was saying....

  • @KievanTiger Interesting to see that everyone isn't native English talker.

  • @oi565 cool :D

  • What a marvellous moment watching this amazing video and enjoying this ever so beautiful music

    Thank you so much

  • You can thank everyone in this universe, still you wont reach the person you should thank for it.

    This is why we have a history.

    Way longer, way deeper, even threathening our both neighbours, that is oppressed.

    They fear the intelligence from us. From reason.

    @MRiitta

  • YES u bet it,s the afterworld!!!... ;-))

  • Tuonela means the afterworld. The swan of Tuonela is swimming on the river leading to Tuonela (Joki means river)

  • Wait a min. There's the place called Tuonela (sort of like Hades-the place- of the Greek mythology). Then there's y the river of Tuonela which is kinda like the river Styx of the Greek tales

  • i just closed my eyes.cleared my mind.and saw a whole movie.

  • @TheNatedagreat4 If you have the time you should do some research about Kalevala, a FInnish myth/epic or whatever. This and many others by SIbelius are inspired by them.

  • always a great combination: classical music & surreal paintings!!

  • who made these paintings??? it's awesome.!

  • @miepdetruus Some of them are from Salvador Dali, an Surrealistic Artist

  • Incredibly beautiful. Thank you so much for this video. Järjettömän upea video - kiitos. Kuka on tehnyt nää kuvat? Todella dalimaisia osa, mutta en tunnista Dalin tai Maigritten teoksiksi. Joten kuka nero nää on koonnut? Jos mä osaisin tehdä videon youtuben niin se olisi tällainen. Kiitos todella paljon tekijälle.... katja...

  • Aika! :)

  • Tuonela = The River of Death

    -.-'' I'm Finn.

  • Je ne me lasse pas d'écouter ce morceau. Un grand merci à Rodiéro

  • Wasn't it so that Disney originally wanted to have this as a part of their original Fantasia -movie? And like, they already had some raw material and drawings of the scenes and all. But due to bad economical state of the company they had to cut the movie shorter.

    It would've been great to see how this would've been intepreted by the most beautiful cartoon movie ever.

  • Très belle vidéo pour un compositeur de génie, et une musique délicieuse

  • Poor Lemminkäinen...why did you ever want to kill the swan?

  • Wonderful music !

  • great video! thanks!!! Todella supa-dupa video. kiitos.

  • Where did you get these images? They're beautiful.

  • I wish I could know as well...

    Surrealist masterpiece for most of them !

  • Judging from the ones i have seen before, they are all at least reasonably well-known paintings, mostly from, as Mr. Troll points out, the Surrealist school.... i recognize a couple of Salvador Dalli pieces near the beginning, but beyond that my knowledge of painters of this period completely fails me. Very delightful collection, however - as you point out!!

  • Tuonelan joki.

    Intresting to see people listening to this song without knowing the meaning of it.

  • By the River of Tuonela...................not everyone is expert in finnish mythology. Most enjoy the beautiful tune - as I also do.

  • @rodiero That's right, good. And even 'Tuonela' has a meaning: 'Abode of Death, or Death Realm'

    - could render it to 'Deathia, Deathton' oe something similar.

    So it's the Black River of Death, bit like in the Greek mythology there was the river Styx. For example there's a master of the Death Realm. But Kalevala characters live more in a Stone Age world, compared to the Greek Classic Age (bronze age). Iron has just come to the world of Kalevala (a smith is an important figure in the society).

  • @timomastosalo Hmmmm - stone age? Definitely not - it is early iron age (and perhaps late bronze age) stuff. Of course these ages were more recent in these parts of the world than they were e.g., in Greece.

  • @EneriGiilaan Well, Iron is there all over - so they are in Iron Age. But it seems like a 'high invention' of the time, it's so hot topic, that a smith is a central character. No wonder, metal - iron especially - have to have been a big technical leap in a society of the age. But the shamanistic passages show an older world, stone age hunting & fishing culture, which is strongly present in Iron Age of the Kalevala.

  • @timomastosalo Considering that there was at least about thousand years of bronze-age before the iron-age (in Finland) I still think it would be quite extraordinary to find any actual stone-age elements in the iron-age poetry. Note that there is nothing preventing the shamanism or hunting or fishing in bronze-age or even iron-age culture per se (they are present even today in some form or another). And of course the stone-age people here probably didn't even speak any kind of 'Finnish' at all.

  • in music what you hear is more important than what you know about it. i don't care the story behind the name of this composition (even thought i know it, because of comprehensive school)

  • @Hucleberry88 happens, but it is not a crime, no?

  • @Hucleberry88 I find it interesting that perhaps you don't know the true meaning of love yet you revel in it.Knowing is not always feeling.A drop of honey,a bee from heaven..does not an emotion make.....

  • wow

  • Gracias KaroRocca , precioso video, me encanta . very nice video, i love it..thank youuu

  • Obrazy Salvadora... Y Technika

    a w tle Romantyczna Muza?

    Jak Ugryść Takie Spotkanie

    Fraktale, Symetria Doskonała...

    Gea... Taniec Kupałową Nocą

    Y ONA....? Ja Ją zanm od wielu

    miesięcy... :D:D:D ;)

    Wiele razy powtarzała:

    "nie Czas jeszcze... nie czas poczekaj...

    hmmm?

  • My dad met Sibelius while studying in Sweden back in the 50s .. this remains one of my favourite pieces of music ever .. of any genre.

  • I was honored in high school--42 years ago--to play the Swan's English Horn part in concert. Our orchestral director, who was of Finnish descent, took the time to teach me about Jean Sibelius, about the myths behind the Swan, and to instill in me the passion to present the fullest possible depth of emotion in the performance. It was a life-altering experience for me, and one at which I still look fondly after nearly half a century.

  • If you like hip-hop that much, you should know that many songs's melodies come from classical music.

  • Well, I would feel gay if I'd like a guy who is watching his own muscles all the time like 50 cent or eminem...If there's something which I don't feel gay is with classic music.

  • If you think that then youd better know that hip hop is based on classic music.

    And prefer classic music more than pop mmusic or hip hop.

  • I am proud of you and yet i envy you =) But from my hole heart, i thank you from taking part of what is us, foreign country.

    @trp3141592

  • MY WORLD, the essence, soul and body. How can this be so fucking beautifull

  • I love the surrealism. Good assembly.

  • Who's performing this version of the swan? On which cd can it be found?

  • dit is een prachtig werk ,heb het laten uitvoeren op de uitvaart van een mij zeer dierbaar mens!!!

  • dreamy.

  • It's unusual to see so much creative effort put into a You Tube video. Many people will be deeply touched.

  • Beautiful music and video :)

    I can hear here Finnish folklore :)

  • This is a beautiful piece of music. And it's somehow imbued with a Scandinavian feeling. The cor anglais sounds so plaintive.

  • You don't have to believe me if I tell you that this melody 'ranks' on the very top as 'The most' "Enigmatic" melody you can ever heard. :) x:

  • Thank you for posting this. The visuals are fantastic and this movement The Lemminkäinen Suite is one of my favorite compositions.

  • The art is amazing, who's the artist? Sort of Dali influences, but these don't make my stomach turn :)

  • Sibelius is my man!!!!

  • Amazing....

  • Beautiful. I would have like it better if you had stayed on the artwork longer instead of using the graphic equilizer as filler. But still very beautiful.

  • Who did this? It is *beautiful.*

  • This was made by finnish composer Jean Sibelius. If you meant that. :) This was also played in his own funeral.

  • No...I was referring to the visuals.

    If the paintings were done by different people, someone still had to put them together, and do the animations.

  • Oh, I'm sorry... I didn't notice the composer is shown at the beginning of the clip. :D I just listened this, not watching.

  • This paintings you chose are stunning. I've always been jealous of people who can paint, I find the medium to hard to work with.... But I love to look at other peoples work. Thank you for this video, I give you 5/5 and a favorite~ :)

  • The butterfly windmills were stunning and the ship also. I would love to know the artist's name. The line of thinking reminds me of Magritte, who's my favourite, but the symbolism and the colourwork is quite different. Sibelius has and will always be my favourite composer. You've done one of the most beautiful videos I've seen yet.

  • Fixando a delicadeza ... sempre.

  • Can anyone fill in the painting names? Some are quite beautiful, but I'm clueless on visual art I'm afraid.

  • i have to do something for the school about

    the swan of tuonela, and I really like those pictures, can you send them to me? please, if you can it's going to be perfect, byebye

    very nicee the videoo!

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