Sibelius: Karelia suite - Ballade

[alternatehistories]

I haven't much familiarity with the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart....among others. I've never been able to get beyond listening to Sibelius...his music gives me everything I need...and I keep going back to it. I never get tired of his style!

[AlanTubeViewer]

This piece is pure beauty and emotion

[Dusntman]

oboe solo is one of the hardest, to play

[UturnatA2]

@Dusntman hope you know it's not an oboe, but an english horn (alto oboe)

[Jonska1]

Take your mp3 players with you and travel to Koli where Sibelius get his ideas for music. So you understand more Karelia suite.

[EnsignBaiXin]

The heart sings what the mouth cannot. Thank you for giving my feelings voice.

[EnsignBaiXin]

Grateful in my heart for music that unites and brings peace to a species so bent on destroying ourselves and the world. Transcendent rendition and music.

[macse154lb]

Beautiful! Sibelius is my favourite!!!!

[md60731]

i've never heard anything so immensely beautiful in my life. and this is my first comment ever on youtube. this is the fist piece of music that deserved my appreciation.

thank you for sharing

[543693The]

Merci beaucoup, c'est magnifique !!!

[halynamyroslava]

Great thanks.

[MacyMabelle]

It's wonderful to hear your opinions and feelings of our national composer hero! I started to listen Sibelius when I was a teenager and fell in love with his music then. Now I have been listening many years Central European composers works and suddenly I am finding my way back to Sibbe's music. It certainly grows very deep within me, it's like a saga of my family and my people's history.

[jlmusicfan57]

Stunningly gorgeous work by a composer who deserves more credit in producing works that are all-time classics in this genre. When I first heard this movement while studying Sibelius as an undergrad music student some 30+ years ago I instantly fell in love with it. Thank you for posting it!

[kimattbort]

3:30 is one of the most beautiful moments in music- captivating

[fingerbib2000]

@kimattbort I see your 3:30 and raise you 4:43

[RaghavGoneBonkers]

This gives me goosebumps.

[Baggerseeradio1]

indescribably beautifully...

[tribegoddess]

This and Hugo Alfven's Swedish Rhapsody No 1 have been my favorite pieces.  Columbia Records had an album called "Finlandia" with a twilight mountain scene on the cover. One one side they put the "Swedish Rhapsody No 1" followed by this piece. They sound so great together, and both are on U-Tube

[tribegoddess]

This and Hugo Alfven's Swedish Rhapsody No 1 ave been my favorite pieces. Columbia Records had an album called "Finlandia" with a twilight mountain scene on the cover. One one side they put the "Swedish Rhapsody No 1" followed by this piece. They sound so great together, and both are on U-Tube

[mats0916]

A genius!

[Guzzimies]

Jahve.antoi meille,tämän suuren lohduttajan, näihin lopun ajan päiviin..Kiitos hänelle siitä..

[NurNasib]

08 joulukuu 1865 Tämä päivä jolloin hän syntyi Jean Sibelius, joka oli päivämäärä ja kellonaika Jumala valmistunut maailman kauneus.

08 December 1865 This day when he was born Jean Sibelius, that was the date and time God completed the beauty of the world.

[ghostgoggles]

Yes very beautiful. Thanks for this - from Australia.

[castravet]

i love this!

[vawlkee51]

This is merely the "suite".

You should hear the Complete composition!

There's a great story behind it's writing.

[pilotlim]

@vawlkee51 where can you find it?

[vawlkee51]

It was available on the "BIS" label.

BIS-CD-915 stereo

[mesovapouliana]

@vawlkee51

i love this music ,Sibelius is really awesome ,what the story you mention here ,where i can find additional information ,im dying to know more about the suite please....

[MrJAUHO]

I like that!! BEAUTIFUL!!

[StanleyKSCBP]

I performed this in February playing 2nd Bassoon. And did circular breathing from 2:13 to 2:42 and 2:48 to 3:10 because there were notes in the Bassoon parts that lasted 13 bars. The same had to happen in the alla marcia. I loved performing it. It's a wonderful piece

[conradin1000]

@StanleyKSCBP Not being a member of an orchestra I can barely imagine the joy of playing this lovely music. Lucky old you, eh? :)

[schubiduwolf]

Deepheart-Music from Sibelius, a gain for the World , grande grandios

[MrPacificator]

J. Sibelius was a sensitive man IMO ; high quality for sure !

[kapariz44]

I only recently heard this piece and didn't know what it was. I thought it might have been from a symphony, but that was coz it sounded at first a bit like the minor equivalent of the 3rd mvt from Brahms's 2nd, Then I thought it was some nationalistic piece by Liszt coz the second tune had a strongly nationalistic flavour about it. Actually it probably is nationalistic, but by Sibelius. A fine piece, I must say, and not overly played, unlike some of the other movements from this suite.

[wouldbebaritone]

I loved this piece the first time I hear it, and not just because I got to play the English horn solo on viola because we didn't have an English horn. Even after many hearings, though, I still don't understand the structure of the piece--the waltz-like beginning, the chorale, and the English horn passage. Anybody out there seen an analysis?

[englishrose47]

So poignant - not given enough recognition. Sibelius was a genius.

[375GTB]

Yes! of Antonin Dvorak's or Smetena's caliber, for sure...

J.C.

[cowboy0212]

This is so beautiful... don't have words.. :(

[conradin1000]

@cowboy0212 you don't need 'em, cowboy! :)

[CurlyandSmile]

While listening to music I imagine how youth dance "khorovod".

[Bielostotsky]

I don't have words...

It's a wonderful piece of music!

You feel the Nature...

Thanks !

[fatman811]

this is beatiful music..... and my dad love it :)

[sphenke]

one of my first loves in music

[03short1]

beautiful