Sibelius: Karelia suite - Intermezzo

[mahtee800]

Olisi kiva tietää, millaisia on ne ihmiset, jotka ovat antaneet esim. tälle kappaleelle alapeukun...

[MrEurwinroberts]

Found it at last .. FANTASTIC.. Thanks to radio Cymru.... Taro Nodyn.. Diolch..

[pinball1970]

I have been looking for this music since I was a kid - it was used for a TV series like panorama I have been looking for this music since I was a kid - it was used for a TV series like panorama and it made my hair stand on end then

Goosebumps just now listening to it again after all this time – brilliant

[HarrietVane]

@pinball1970 No, it was This Week on ITV in the early sixties. Kick ass music then and now.

[pinball1970]

@HarrietVane

ok thanks

You may want to check out "world in action" if you havent already Great organ - a bit Bachy

it always gave me the willies as a kid but it was beautiful as it was haunting and still gets me now

another was "white horses"

[piugeot]

i can not get this out of my head! And I'm happy about it.

[Carlos111111able]

Santa Claus is coming to town!!! Jean Sibelius a true genius!!! More support for the all time music genius like SIBELIUS!!

[Ilfordloser92]

I always expect to hear the voice of Brian Walden making some political comment before the introduction ends.

[WPSPUR]

Six dislikes? WTF

[Kaapomaalainen]

@WPSPUR Some people will just give any popular video a dislike only for the sake of it being liked by everyone else. A.K.A. trolls.

[Stravinsky91]

@WPSPUR Bieber-fans perhaps?

[EnsignBaiXin]

Thank you Finland for this man. Musical heaven.

[4kandles]

if this music doesn't kick your arse ... I'm afraid you're dead!!

[MrFluffy1979]

controvresial Documentry was Death On The Rock

[MrFluffy1979]

Also Used on a Itv Doctumentary Programme called This Week and was A Very controversial for its time

[VodKaLogic]

I heard a long time ago. Last night I heard it in a dream, I woke up crying, and now I found it.

[MrElcharrua]

UNA GRAN PIEZA!!! GRAN OBRA DEL MAESTRO IAN SIBELLIUS PARA LOS OIDOS QUE SI SABEN OIR Y APRECIAR LA MÚSICA.

[luckyowl249]

The Germans got back East-Germany from the Russians; but for what price: The land and its people ruined by the Soviets and their system!

[fortalumo]

I heard this piece recently as background to a video publicising the Skylon project, and immediately recognised it as the theme tune to the current affairs TV programme "This Week" broadcast in the UK in the 1970s.  Not knowing what it was called, I looked up "This Week" on Wikipedia, and found the reference to the Karelia Intermezzo.

Wow! I hadn't realised it had this nationally charged background, but of course I agree with all that's been said about the evocative character of the piece.

[fortalumo]

I heard this piece recently as background to a video publicising the Skylon project, and immediately recognised it as the theme tune to the current affairs TV programme "This Week" broadcast in the UK in the 1970s. Not knowing what it was called, I looked up "This Week" on Wikipedia, and found the reference to the Karelia Intermezzo.

Wow! I hadn't realised it had this nationally charged background, but of course I agree with all that's been said about the evocative character of the piece.

[ProgressionEternity]

Does Finland truly want Karelia back? Under Russian rule it has been bled, polluted, and poisoned. Through Russian occupation is has been perverted and killed.

Nay. We, the sons of Karelia, are the sons of a dead land. Within out blood sings not the vain song of hope, hope to return to a stolen home. Rather, a funeral dirge courses through our veins, and a thirst to avenge a murdered land ebbs and burns, encoded within our cells.

[filsgreen]

Such a rousing anthem, if I may be so basic. It should be the Finnish national anthem. Please may the English steal it from you? It would be a fantastic change form the durge we are exposed to.

[MrSirDel]

@filsgreen Hallelujah  Yes yes Anything but God save the sponger..I have loved this piece of music forever

[MichaelDPorter]

Wow! I think I'll invade Russia myself, having listened to THAT! Long live Finnish Karelia, I say! The day of liberation will come. Not yet awhile, but it WILL come, when the Russian Federation collapses under its own weight and the Russian settlers go scuttling off back home, and the Finns reoccupy their ancestral lands. I wish we British could write stirring music lke that, but we just swagger and strut, or start binding on about water meadows and cows looking over gates.

[MultiJerkku]

@MichaelDPorter You know, its sad that russians have ruined the whole Karelia and Vyborg, Vyborg used to be a vacation paradise, now its just city full of shit and childs beggin money on the streets, trust me, Ive been there.

[MichaelDPorter]

@MultiJerkku After reading your comment I looked at the Wikipedia article about Vyborg (Viipuri) and I think it's criminal that this Finnish city remains in Russian hands just because Joseph Stalin conquered it. What if Lvov was still in German hands just because Adolf Hitler conquered it? Hilter's legacy has been completely dismantled and the Germans have abandoned all claim to the Slav lands they once occupied. Part of Stalin's legacy still remains... This is absolutely outrageous!!!

[MultiJerkku]

@MichaelDPorter Thanks for the support, maybe one day we will take it back.

[qyzuf]

Sibelius with added testosterone

[LetsGetThisClear]

HYVA SUOMI!! 

[grahammanser999]

HE HE the first single I bought!!!!

[johnboytd]

I remember this music being used as the sig tune for an ITV documentary prog, This Week (I think!)

[SaaSaToEsp]

@MrLTBR Thank you, from Finland.

[esclavoISAURO]

caramba sapito¡¡¡¡¡¡un tema morrocotudo.

[zaus82]

Gran Pieza... La nostalgia de TVN tema aparte.

[thethomaspiano]

grande finale!!!

[hbarria07]

Grande zooom deportivo !!

[marchingchieftain]

French Horn rockin that high Bb!!

[4825mixd]

Each to his own, tempo and general rendition are very personal preferences and obviously the conductor has a big say in how the music is interpreted , I sometimes wonder if the composer could come back , sit in at the recording if he'd say fine or throw a brick at the bloke with the baton! Like a lot of people I first got to like this piece as a TV programme signature tune in the 1960's. Splendid.

[franthree]

Tempo is a little fast but nice rendition! Check out Herbert von Karajan's version of the Karelia Suite with the Berliner Philharmoniker!!! Sublime!!! Bravo! Jean!--you live in my heart forever!

[filsgreen]

God, this is so powerful, if this isn't the Finnish national anthem it should be.

[londonsw111]

Just brilliant.

[Hessux]

I liked to read yours comments about Sibelius and his music. Thanks! But if you really want to understand Jean Sibelius's music you have to know the history of Finland and Finnish people. That's true.

[migmartiz]

jaja zoom deportivo

[Claudio9938]

sibelius y el vodka finlandes son excelentes. Me gusta la Sinfonía nº 2. Poco escuchada pero excepcional. Sobre todo el segundo movimiento.

[CptSchmidt]

Too fast!

[Markkuolavi]

The best version:

The Bournemouth Symphony and Paavo Berglund, 1972!!

[woodhouse122]

@Markkuolavi i have that version on the album and it is very good

[Ynot1666]

This is a great piece of music which I suddenly thought of today and of course there it was on YouTube! YouTube rarely fails!! I used to have a copy of the Thomas Jensen version of the Karelia Suite on a 7 inch EP from 40 years ago (heaven knows where it went!) and I do agree with another poster that this rendering is a little too fast - but not much too fast and it is pretty good anyway, so thank you for posting it.

[Barrenosr15]

I like this piece at this tempo. We are playing this for festival, i play the trumpet.

[filsgreen]

I'm sure Mr Burns would respond to this piece of music

[fgtuh]

A bit too fast in my opinion

[maximus01135]

It's absolutely stunning! This piece always makes me think of my native Karelia and brings up the childhood memories: crispy snow, low-rise sun, skiing on the frozen lakes, jumping from the sauna into the snow.... This Finnish composer sure grasped the essence of Karelian spirit! Thanks, neighbour!

[echostains]

Fantastic stirring music! Makes you feel infinitely better! Thanks!

[ariastoteles]

Nice, nice, nice and nice!

Kiva, kiva, mukava ja kiva!



[MBE54]

Music from ITV's This Week programme IIRC. Tremendous.

[mackinl]

crank it up to 11.

[htsand]

I feel royalty when i listen to this. i have ALWAYS loved this one, since i was at 10 years of age!

[vledarine]

GRANDE SAPITOOOO!!

[pierovasquezcortes]

@vledarine Jajajajajajaj ctm!

[majark4]

@vledarine jajajaja 36 votos a favor de tu comentario y esta de los primeros, me imagino que deven haber miles de wnes de otros paises preguntandose a que chucha se refiere tu comentario jajaja

[sgsound12]

@vledarine Graaaaaaaande Sapito!!.....In Chile, this piece is used in Sport Area TV programme which is conducted by an old chilean soccer goal keeper called Sergio "Sapo" Livingstone...

[billboy508]

Always been a top piece of classical for me

[ghostgoggles]

Wonderful to hear. Thank you - from Australia.

[elephanta2]

Nice tempo, each phraise sometimes sounds clearly and brightly, other times vaguely ...like a music canvas.

[TheHiddenMole]

We've just started playing this in our youth orchestra and despite hardly getting to play at all (being a clarinettist we don't do much in this movement) but I adore just sitting back and listening to this <3

[Ruttomieli]

The absolutely best thing about this video is that there are no people representing different genres of music argueing about whether this is bs or not and calling each other names like some juvenile, brainless idiots. This piece of composition is quite epic, and I think being a Finn makes it even more dear to me ;) Once again can I be proud of something that originates from Finland!

[MilanMessina]

Found out about this song due to the game Armed Assault 2 (Thirsk map).

A masterpiece.

Wish i knew it alot sooner.

[mrmomo26]

I play double bass and the bass part in this piece makes me want to kill myself

[MetalJasnic]

@mrmomo26 I know what you mean. I'm a cellist and I played this last year in my youth orchestra.

[4kandles]

Superb!!! ... Many Thanks.

[illn123]

@4kandles

[Mr28121940]

One of the most inspiring compositions. It reflects the strength of character, cool & calm nature of composers untellectual prowess. What a wonderful restraint in the delivery of soothing intermezzo - it could only be a Finn & no one else !

[Hilarion1771]

@Mr28121940 Well I'm Irish now, but thanks :)

[torhjelm]

Finland! Finland! Finland!

[cwwiss1]

I wonder if he cried when he first heard what he had created..

[mackinl]

eat your heart out j/b.

[carsanookdotcom]

Kiitos kelfaska & youtube

de john

carsanook

bangkok

[Pugophile]

Unbearably stirring. Little wonder the Finns beat the shit out of the Russians.

[conradin1000]

@Pugophile and the Germans too, when they suddenly set on them in 1944 and chased them out of Lapland. You do NOT mess with the Finns!

[bigbuck700]

@Pugophile Yep, the Russians are REALLY worried about the Finns these days... ;-)

[bigbuck700]

@Pugophile Yep, the Russians are REALLY worried about the Finns these days..... ;-)

[ekhmuel]

@Pugophile Despite being a russophile bloody amusing comment! :)

[ekhmuel]

@Pugophile Despite being a russophile bloody amusing comment! :)

[megaflyer99]

@Pugophile also great rally drivers!

[davidandcleo]

@Pugophile listen to finlandia!

[keeelane]

@Pugophile well, to be exact the russians beat the shit out of the karelian finns, but the rest could hold them off

[Dicknose88]

@Pugophile Twice in one century, no less.

[EduardHeinrichAlfons]

its so wonderful.

Do you know it played by "The Nice"?

Brilliant!

[dylan9ism]

An amazing recording of this powerful and uplifting brilliant piece of music by the fabulous Jean Sibelius!!

[thelordant5noob]

i love this peace of music and im 13!

[littlefrost95]

it's such a wonderful music piece with spiritual.

[mackinl]

i got my volume on 11.

[jimboboval]

powerful, hair-raising recording, thanks

[MrGoldsable]

@eemjmm I remember " This Week" .. Sundays at 1pm ITV .... ( Do you get on with your neighbours? ) lol

[MrJAUHO]

Olemme ylpeitä omasta säveltäjästä ja suuresta sellaisesta!!! Kaunista kuunneltavaa korvakuulokkeilla!!!!!!!

[subcdriller]

I concur lemma!!!

[goPistons06]

this music is glorious!

[eemjmm]

Ingodidoubt --thank for the education ! --BTW --me too also---

[eemjmm]

TV --This Week - originally Ludovic Kennedy --fantastic piece of music--great presenter

[MsModernComposer]

Great piece!

[eemjmm]

My wife's computer has a sub-woofer attached --whatever that is--and the sound reverberates into the stairwell and upstairs landing --the orchestra is therefor here when I play this. Fantastic music!

[ingodidoubt]

@eemjmm that would be the tympani

[goPistons06]

this music is glorious

[ariastoteles]

Ésta es la música más bella del mundo.

Tämä on maailman kaunein musiikki.

[heirihunziker]

i don`t like this interpretation, too hurried and detached. if you want this wonderful piece in all its glory, get a recording with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Leif Segerstam, they are Finns and know how to play Finnish music for maximum impact!

[bonnie43uk]

When that crescendo builds up at 1:15 i get goosebumps on my skin. Fantastic piece of music.

If this music doesn't fill you with emotion, .. nothing will.

10/10.

[mikemacleod03]

Such wonderful Music can only be inspired from a power unknown by us mortals, and given to us on our earth by a genius of musical interpretation, Jean Sibelius.

[DSVOP]

A brave people and a deservedly proud nation, this is an anthem that speaks well of Finland.:-)

[bonzo874]

steveteb , it certainly was "This week" screened in the 70, and 80,s by granada tv

[Sciencebox2010]

Awesome - play loud through headphones

[steveteb]

This was used as the theme for a current affairs programme on British TV. I forget which now - was it This Week? Anyone know?

[jakdogy2009]

@steveteb I think it was "In Town Tonight"

[rokusho63]

@steveteb ignore my previous answer. it was indeed "this week".

[stormywindmill]

@rokusho63 Yes It was "This week " presented by Brian Connell or Canell , (cant remeber corect name spelling from Anglia TV)

[steveteb]

This was used as the theme for a current affairs programme on British TV. I forget which now - was it This Week? Anyone know?

[rokusho63]

@steveteb if i remember correctly it was "what the papers say"

[vc210790]

Esta música salió en transmisiones deportivas de TVN. Ahora lo utiliza otro tema musical.

[jmalfarock]

cortina musical del zoom deportivo

[IdiotPoinT3FM]

One of my favorite pieces. It sounds so much more beautiful seeing a live orchestra perform it though!

[elephanta2]

Greatly imaginative, magnificent!

[MrPkvidmaker]

1:19 omfg

[eGADZ321]

amazing.

[MichailSchumacher]

Ehdottomasti Sibeliuksen parhain säveltämä sinfonia mikälie. Mäkihypyssä tämä tulee varsin usein eikä tähän kyllästy. Vanhan ajan musiikkia pitää arvostaa, ja sitä minä teen tässä. Hienoa musiikkia, päihittää ylivoimaisesti nykypäivän hevit ja metallimusiikit.

[thunderbolito]

a great call over

[oscarmuir]

Perfect

[wayofthesamurai2]

i like the karelia suite , does any one have links?

[SaaSaToEsp]

Awesome and powerful. A great piece of classical music.

Makes me proud to be Finnish.

Very proud indeed.

[poo72]

Nice but Karelia suite a light work. Instead, Sibelius' symphonies are more than a human life.

[cwbswanwick]

wonderful wonderful stuff. Just selecting pieces for a concert and this is a must.

[odisap]

Played too fast. Please dont downvote this... I LOVE it but its waaay more grandoise when played more slowly. Just my opinion :)

[monjiou1]

Hello odisap: Tell us who plays it more slowly. We want to hear it.

[basselyrique]

@odisap As a Finn this piece just gets under the skin and causes severe goose bumps - and the fast tempo doesn't matter at all, the music gets where it wants!

[monjiou1]

No waiting for the "good part" to star!!!

[ppetracco]

Hey, does anyone know what is the Sibelius piece from which a sample was used in The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows"?

[SusannaMari]

Oh how I love his works!! My GOD!! Crazy stuff...

[SusannaMari]

This makes me go WILD!!!

[mrsmetz1]

Well this is powerful. This music could even raise people from the dead. Mr. Sibelius did some great things. I can imagine how people feel proud to be a Finn when they listen to his music.

[joelthefrog1]

@mrsmetz1

Finn is short for finest :)

[pickledpork]

Used to be the theme music for TVNZ back in 1975. Makes my spine tingle!

[maggijude]

@pickledpork Its original kiwi use was the NZ National Film Unit (as was?) film for the NZ Pavilion at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. It was really amazing with all sorts of split screens and stuff that we were totally unaware could be done with film. Basically a NZ film in those days was just like a calendar but moving. Island paradise plus pavlova and a great place to bring up kids bah blah

[pickledpork]

@maggijude very interesting. Thanks!

[jorfranco1]

extraordinario sibelius un temazo

[Bielostotsky]

Precioso! Sibelius grande y sensible!

[Tertsimies]

Tulee ihan mäkihypyn maailmancup mieleen. :D Hieno biisi.

[legolas9557]

Jee silloin kun minä olin koulussa, kuudennen luokan kevät juhlassa tuo soitettiin ja minä ja muut luokat marsimme paikoillemme juhla salissa

[SusanDianeMurphree]

I can just hear the calvary soldiers riding up, across and away ! Where did you find this? Sounds like something James Richens, my Jr. High music teacher would conduct. Patriotic music indeed. The Civil War era was a milestone in history, but a heartbreaking one.

SusanDianeMurphree/Marianna,Ar­kansas/January2010

[JClayCast]

I have to play the first violin part for this song in an all-county orchestra... it kills. :)

[vikvale]

@JClayCast Baddam man i hope u rock it....

[ScarecrowVids]

I listened to the hooked on classic tunes and heard a sample i couldnt place. By searching all the samples on youtube I came to this song and this is the song with the sample I heard in Hooked on Classics. Thank you very much for uploading this !

[oldmcbran]

You can hear Karelia's PAIN!!!, SINCE IT WAS STOLEN BY THE DAMN RUSSIAN THIEVES!!!

sibelius is the greatest composer!

[mackinl]

i first heard this music in the mid 70s as a kid. on a brit tv show never thought id hear again thx for posting

kelfaska.

[FINhenu]

Finlandia is my favourite, but this one comes close too.

[babyterr0r166]

Suomi rulaa!!!!

Hyvää itsenäisyys päivää!!!

ja tää biisi!

[johakiller]

@babyterr0r166 i don't know what are you saing but i think that it's good hahaha

[ThePaxip]

@babyterr0r166 Isn't Karelia in Russia?

[quasarsphere]

@ThePaxip

Bits of it are.

[MsModernComposer]

Karelia is a federal subject of Russia. It's divided among Russian Republic of Karelia, The Russian Leningrad Oblast and Finland (the regions of north and south Karelia). I have a degree in geography so trust me on this.

[MsModernComposer]

@conradin1000 I'm not trying to start an argument. Someone had inquired about Karelia and I simply answered their question. I am a teacher of geography, not political history.

[basselyrique]

@MsModernComposer As you certainly know, the part of Karelia that mostly inspired Finnish artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is what became Soviet territory after 1945.

[Mikey84]

@MsModernComposer

Before WW2 parts of the Russian Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast belonged to Finland...

[MsModernComposer]

@Mikey84 Tis True

[MsModernComposer]

@Mikey84 Tis True. Oh and btw, I just heard this live at the chicago symphony a couple days ago where kissin performed griegs piano concerto

[maggijude]

Oh...the usual... androgynous warriors wearing jeans and parka's , their fists punching the air in triumph , with various pristine landscapes in the background .

NB 1.Parka =anorak or rainjacket in NZ English 2.The "various pristine landscapes" means I change them according to my triumphalist fantasy of the moment

[lookit87]

Wow someone actually uploaded it . . . Amazing thank you so much for the upload! : )

[cznery]

Karelis ja pidän kappaleen se saa sinut uskomaan

[eemjmm]

GREAT!!!!

[lemma1968]

I adore this piece of music. Fantastic when on really loud on a good stereo!