Sibelius: Lemminkainen and the Maidens of the Island, Part 1

[kontrapunkti]

Great piece of music! Very nice video also!

[GuidoJouni]

The painting of Sibelius's face is by Akseli Gallen Kallela. I recommend this visionary Finnish painter to everybody. For a short period he was a member of the German expresisonist group 'Die Brücke'.

[kkapur111]

I totally concur with the comments made by @eartatic. The Neeme Järvi rendering of this is suite simply the best. A must have

[IainOElliott2]

Too slow; not vigorous enough.

[IainOElliott2]

Too slow; not vigorous enough. Try Bernstein.

[IainOElliott2]

@kkapur111 Too slow, not vigorous enough. Plays the motifs in #1 feebly. Try Bernstein instead.

[Nibelungenherr1876]

Perhaps the most wagnerian work of Sibelius. Fucking awesome!

[IainOElliott2]

Hardly a compliment to Sibelius.

[mrotwist]

If you like Lemminkainen, you will LOVE Symphonies 1, 2, and 4 by him.Others you will also love: Karelia Suite, En Saga, Pohjoli's Daughter, and etc. etc. etc.

[jaimebyrne777]

there is a top version of this on naxos with sakari and the iceland phil. well worth the budget price :)

[dsk01981]

If you like Sibelius, I reccomend 'The Essential Sibelius' CD set by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä.

[earthatic]

This music is amazing!!! I have to listen to all the suite! How long is it? This performance is fantastic as well, who are the performers? I am beggining to enjoy Sibelius' music so much, I am definitely going to buy some more CD's with his music!

[geronimo6377]

hi, the length of the complete suite is ca. 45 minutes. my favourite recordings of this piece are with the conductors neeme järvi or mikko franck.

[Nuker1337]

@earthatic The suite with Neeme Järvi is 49 minutes. It is completely awesome. I love the beauty of the first two movements, The third movement is very dark, and the most scary piece of music ever written in my opinion. The fourth movement is very unique as well.