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  • the extraordinary thing about sibelius is that we only ever get the beautiful tune the once and the rest of the time we are just longing for it to return. . . . . . and remembering what a beautiful tune it actually was while it lasted . . . .

  • its 2:25 that always gets me. actually he slows it down at this point which I havent heard anyone do so noticeably before . . . .

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  • I want be kissed at 05:20

  • Pour this out your front door in a brisk Winter morning.

  • 1:18

  • Why did he choose not to compose?

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  • @jamesaellis Sibelius' last major work was from 1927, age 61. That's a good run! He continued to compose small works and the uncompleted 8th Symphony. He lived hard for most of his adult life: drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney. In his final years, Sibelius ironically lamented that all of his healthier living friends were dead, as were the doctors who told him to stop drinking and smoking. He was funny! I have noticed, all photos of smiling Sibelius are from retirement years!

  • The 3/2 section with the horns at 1:25 is just....

  • This symphony is my single favorite piece of music that I have ever heard. Magnificent, Incredible and Out of This World

    This piece starts to really take off at 4:54-5:20.

  • Emotional, moving, magnificent Sibelius.

    Love to see that opening curtain and Salonen's face once again...

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  • This deserves more than 62,660 views!!!

  • I don't know nothing about music... but I do about psychology, and also about emotions. This song produces some sensation of the magnificence present on nature and mother earth, also the growth on spiral of a human soul. Also could someone tell me the year of this concert? I think I've met a woman from it.

  • esa-pekka salonen is a cold fish

  • 3 people have no soul

  • @cubanbach & lainOElliott - Me three; it's not us, it's Sibelius and these fine Swedes. They're good tears, though :)

  • @adrienne0619 indeed...thank you...you are so right :)

  • OHHHHHHH THOSE SWWWANNNNS!!!!!!!

  • Oh man, at around 1:30 it just... wow. It's like clouds parting over the sea.

  • 05:40 - Mel Gibson on a diet plays a wicked flute.

  • 04:50

  • This is my favorite version of the last movement. Very enjoyable.

  • You've never listened to this while you were high! You have no idea how great this piece is.... it's JUST great!

  • Sibelius makes me want to return home to Finland ... And I'm not even from Finland. :'(

  • This and Mahler's 2nd. The best finales of any symphonies.

  • The tears.....they came out again...again...WHY does this happen?

  • YES-Goosebumps, at 1:24 and again at 2:26. Wish I was there!!!

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  • @mikeppal VON karajans real name was karianis he was big in europe because the record company plugged him there [ the public ignored the fact that he was a card carring nazi ] but he never broke into the american market he made videos where he wanted everyone to look perfect like andre riue he wasnt that versitile he mostly did beethoven ill give him credit for doing all the sibelius symphonies but ormandy was more versitle doing sibelius and jazzy american composers like norman dello joio

  • When I despair, I play this piece and it lifts my spirit. It's like a sunbeam slicing through the clouds . I hear the horns in my head the rest of the day and smile. Thank you Sibelius.

  • the eternal Sibelian motif, for those swans that left this cruel week.

  • this finale always makes me want to cry, it's that beautiful. however, i still love the 4th.....

  • Grand.

  • Utterly brilliant piece of music. My favourite composer - the sweeping horns make the hairs on my neck stand up every time. Completely overwhelming.

  • Whoever thinks that THIS is lame... go jump off a bridge..

    BEST THING EVER!!!

  • 2:17 chills...

    

  • OMG...I am crying again at this piece WHY does it do that to me? Just last week I was in the car and listening to this and I couldn't help the emotions that came out of nowhere.

  • @cubanbach Me too - every time.

  • @IainOElliott2 awwwww :) nice to know that Iain :)

  • @cubanbach Paraphilia my friend paraphilia.

  • @cubbex Gee, I am not sure if I've heard my reaction to music described that way before.  But it warrants some consideration. Thank you.

  • @cubanbach no problem, is beautiful

  • @cubanbach I can understand completely. This tears at my heart as well as brings tears. What a gorgeous finale!

  • @22441932 Thank you "2244..." Isn't it remarkable that we react like this? I say it's a kind of magic, although I know it is a simplistic way of describing it.

  • @cubanbach So, I'm not the only one who cries when I hear the 5th's last movement. It's good to know I have company. We can congratulate ourselves that we are 'tuned in' to so much beauty. It is as if the heavens are speaking to us.

  • @cubanbach Congratulations. You, unlike far too many people nowadays, have both a love for and a connection with fine music, on a level that transcends simple appreciation and truly moves you. You are the Ur-audience.

  • @megalomaniacalHalide Gosh, Mega...Thank you. What a lovely, warm comment you've given me...I don't know what to say except that your generosity made me feel so nice and I am at a loss for words to show my gratitude for your kindness.

  • @mikeppal yes, you are right but i don t like somebody has a huge reputation, in any case that is little unfair. sibelius might have said barbirolli sounds like what in my head. i think nobody has same mind and taste so it s strange that all think karajan is the best conducter ever.

  • @mikeppal but you forgot something Sibelius wasn t alive when those conducters conduct his music. Barbirolli, Colin Davis, Salonen, Jarvi and some of others are great too. i don t think Karajan is the best in Sibelius and i m little against of popularity of Karajan.

  • Maybe Salonen is the best Sibelius interpretator.

  • Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black can suck my dick.. THIS IS AMAZING MUSIC!

  • @Stickfactory i m sorry but if you didn t write Justin Bieber everywhere, i wouldn t know him. why do you compare Bieber with great composers, does he deserve ? it s not only for you.

  • @13Orcun This is the typical nature of a person trying to be fun, making pop-internet-jokes. Just comprehend him...

  • @cubbex but isn t it cliche ?

  • @13Orcun It is of course.

  • anybody know the author and name of the painting that unfolds round 2:30 ?

    id be very thankful.

  • @amazingmuffinman

    the painting is by a British 19th century artist, J.W.M Turner and called "The Slave Ship"

    The ironic thing is the music is so beautiful and peaceful when the painting is revealed, but the painting is about slavers throwing slaves off the ships so they can get the insurance money when they return to port.

  • @Mharakan Your description of the Turner painting is technically accurate, as far as the painting itself goes. However, the use of Turner's painting in this good performance of Sibelius 5 is confined to its powerful depiction of sun piercing a cloud scudded sky, the very thing that Sibelius was going for in his music where the harshest elements of nature are recognized (e.g., the worst of humanity's failings), but ever defeated by the thrall of its essential beauty. Still, your point is valid.

  • @amazingmuffinman whoops...that was actually incorrect. The Slave Ship is very similar, but the real painting is "Yacht Approaching the Coast". My apologies.

  • @Suspekt9Records search Sibelius symphony no. 5 site:imslp.org on Google =]

  • I want to do a dubstep remix to this song but i cant find the chords and notes

  • @Suspekt9Records please be a joke, please be a joke, please be a joke!

  • @Suspekt9Records what bit(s) do you need chords and notes for? i could sort you out mate.

  • Lovely

  • I love this rendition, I know people rave about Karayan, but this is so much more textured IMHO, and I like the fact that the conductor here is letting the music breathe and not rushing to get to the theme, its measured and it works beautifully.

  • Mountains.... I picture mountains and epic landscapes when I hear this. So majestic! :)

  • infinitamente superiore per pathos all'edizione di Rattle ice-man!

  • anyone ever noticed that the the Never say never song in American Tail uses the main theme of this song?

  • Wonderful!

    

  • Not a huge fan of the visual aids -- these sounds hardly need any help making an impact. For me the video is a net minus to a terrific performance. Though the orange glow over Salonen is a nice touch -- makes him look even more boyish somehow.

    @BBQwatchman I've heard significantly faster recordings of this movement (Ashkenazy comes to mind).

  • You can see an angelic glow over the orchestra as the painting unveils....simply sublime

  • The Six Swans......perfection

    Snow white scape here and this returned to my thoughts.....sox!!!!

  • This interpretation is definetely superior to Karajan -60. Warmer, more humane.

  • nice touch to have the painting unveiled at the 'best bit'

  • my god this is fast...

  • As a composer, I've somewhat lost sight of the fact that there are humans playing the music. Most of the time is music on my ipod, or its just a still of the composer in a video on youtube. Flute to me just meant higher register woodwind instrument, divisi in 2 or 3, etc. This has really helped me put things into perspective. Thank you very much. This music it absolutely wonderful as well.

    I'm not the biggest fan of the six chord ending, but, like Mahler's first's finale, it should grow on me.

  • "For an instant God opens his door, and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony."

    -Jean Sibelius

  • From what year is this performance recorded?

  • I absolutely love this piece! I'm trying to get our conductor to have our No. Cal. orchestra play it. This rendition is SO moving! THanks for reposting it!!

  • Him listening to a From The House of The Dead conducted by him jan 6.

  • conductor is great!

  • Salonen is in LA Philharmonic now, I wish I can have the chance to go to LA to see his performance.

  • french horn sound is from heaven itself :D

  • The music from Spirited Away seems to take inspiration from the motive in this theme played by the horns. With good reason, too -- it's really a beautiful, simple line

  • Sorry clarinetgenius but this is the finale of No. 5 as stated,

  • @Clarinetgenius12 It's the final of the 5th.

  • I remember watching an old BBC Wildlife series back in 1985 called 'In The Wild - Mordicus The Buzzard' by Simon King. This excellent and emotional documentary featured this music. Simply stunning.

  • Kaunis. Esa-Pekka is very, very clear. That timpani ending is quite difficult to execute. Props to the SRSO, too, of course.

    Not bad... for Swedes, HA HA HA HA! Of course the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchester is better. Every Finn is born knowing that. Ho ho ho!

    Tosi Hyvä. Jätte Bra.

    Hej från Finland. Terveisiä Suomesta!

  • possitivly glowing!

  • viola badassery!!

  • I remember I first heard this on the radio in October 1973 in my third year of college. Loved it at first hearing

  • A conductor must be careful not to lower the baton, lest the applause begin prematurely

  • Goosebumbs!

  • Wonderful, absolutely wonderful! The ending always brings tears to my eyes. Of all the gorgeous symphonies, this finale may very well be my favorite. It is so unusual, and splendid.

  • Are these swans I see and hear?

  • thanks for posting this. great piece, great performance. much appreciated.

  • aha

    

  • This is so "professional" that itt's dull as ditch-water.  Check out the Carmel High School version.

  • @reveli The fact that you state a high school is better than the SRO shows that your musical taste and opinions are complete trash. Grow up little boy.

  • @reveli

    Truth is, I'm 61, and my contention that Carmel HS's rendering of the finale of Sibelius' Fifth stands. I've heard Bernstein with the Vienna and Ashkenazy with the Cleveland, both at Carnegie, do the Fifth. Of recordings, I know ALL of 'em. My fav is still Ormandy and the Philadelphians, recorded back in the 60s and which I have only on cassette; can't find a CD of it.

    Grow up? What for? To become a jerk like you?

    RevEli

  • @reveli Lol. Keep on thinking that. People will take you seriously. Really.

  • @GrumpyPeon

    Are you being facetious? I do not understand what you mean.

  • @reveli I imagine he is. I just checked out the carmel high school version, it is very exciting. I don't agree with your assessment of this performance though, I think it is a way more subtle performance, the carmel high kids play very enthusiastically but ofcourse they do not have the ear or the emotional heft of these performers.

  • @jin12345678 I respect your assessment. My assessment is that Soo Han and his Carmel students not only communicated the majesty of this Finale - Sibelius' flying swans - but also the terror that is often neglected, and which Esa-Pekka and SRO neglected - at least to my ear and soul.

    Perhaps I'm being too generous or hearing more than I should.

    reveli

  • @reveli I just happened to pick up on your last sentence about growing up. I, too, am over 60 and subscribe to the belief that if you don't grow up by the time you're fifty, you don't have to. I often separate people into grownups and non grownups. So keep on keeping on!

  • @NKWIAM An anecdote re Growing Up: I was in the 4th grade at Audubon Grade School in Mpls. I'd recently discovered hand puppets. Bothering the student next to me with one, I was brought up short by the teacher - Mrs. Braun, tall, red-haired and quite Teutonic - bellowing my name, followed by, "Would you grow up?!" Even at 8 or 9, I remember thinking, 'What a terrible thing to tell a kid.'

    Even at

  • very dishy string player at 00:33

  • Is there anywhere a piece of music that captures nature and the great outdoors like this? Expansive doesn't do it justice.

  • Why was it removed in the first place ? Bizarre. What a perfect evocation of the Finnish landscape that Sibelius loved.

    You can hear the Whooper Swans flying overhead in this that he must have seen.

  • so beyond epic.

  • Symphony No.5 in Eb major Opus 82 (3)

  • Great sound from this orchestra and a wonderful conductor who i was not aware of.

  • Goosebumps, goosebumps and more goosebumps....simply sublime...

  • @Notthemidnightmass Read your comment, and thought "what is this guy talking about?" Then got to 1:23 and understood.

  • Thanks for reposting.

  • Thanks for uploading it again!

  • thank you! where can you but a copy of this? i can't seem to find it anywhere...

  • Thank you for reposting this wonderful music. I was in shock when I realized how many of my favorites had been removed along with some very interesting comments. Watching and listening to this again is like getting a little bit of my life back. Very much appreciated.

  • It's cruel that all the brilliant Salonen recordings on youtube disappeared, the unbelievable Rite of the Spring, Kullervo, Shostakowitsch Piano concert, Mussorgskys pictures and Sibelius 2nd Symphony. Ich hope somebody will reposting it like you, so thank you for that ! That music touchs my heart !

  • @Bizetfan Ya they Bloody deleted Salonen's PROMS performance of Mussorgskys/Ravel'S Pictures At An Exhibition that performance was SO breathtaking. Now, If liked that check out DUDAMEL/ Terresa Carreno YO rendition of Shostakovich's 1Oth!!! Absolutely marvelous!

  • Haha, thanks for reposting this after it disappeared... :P

  • @Otterist I like this version the most~

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