The real Sibelius? As close as it gets

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シベリウスの交響曲第7番についての論評。1924年作曲のこの単一楽章の作品は、フィンランドの独立と内戦を経て60歳を迎えた作曲家の心境が反映されているとされる。指揮者にとって解釈が難しい作品であり、本稿ではその音楽的特徴と背景に触れている。

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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The seventh is the least explicable of the Sibelius symphonies and the one I turn to first when assessing a new cycle. Written in 1924, when Finland had won independence from Russia and overcome a bloody civil war that mirrored the whites-vs-reds battles across the border, the symphony has one movement and lasts less than twenty minutes. Sibelius, turning sixty, is either giving up or running out of solutions. All his life he had led from the front in defining the nation by the force of his music. Now, disillusioned and rejected by half the nation, he gives away few clues to his thoughts and direction. The symphony opens with an ascendant scale and falls back on familiar clips from its predecessors. Few conductors come close to getting it right

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