Collon and his players are especially responsive to Sibelius’s detailed dynamic markings in the latter suite. Originally conceived as a 'symphonic fantasy,' the Seventh is contained in one movement. The first section (marked Adagio) seems to represent a vast. Although in one continuous movement, it actually falls into four sections. A single drumbeat, a scale rising through the strings, and the Symphony gets underway. Certainly, the long Sibelian build up of the opening Nocturne movement of the lavish King Christian II Suite has an almost symphonic sweep whereas the smaller-scale vignettes for Pelléas et Mélisande – so different from the responses of Fauré, Debussy and Schoenberg to the same play – exemplify Sibelius’s genius for evoking intense atmosphere with a few exiguous gestures and textures. A fervent nationalist, Sibelius celebrated Finland’s often painful path to independence in his Seventh Symphony. LOrchestre philharmonique de Radio France dirigé par Mikko Franck interprète la Symphonie n☇ en ut majeur de Jean Sibelius. In picking two of the composer’s finest suites of incidental music, Collon reminds us that Sibelius’s extensive contribution to theatre music is quite as significant in its way as his symphonies and tone poems. THE BACKSTORY In 1918, Sibelius was not only completing his Fifth Symphony and beginning his Sixth he was also. 105 & Other Orchestral Works by The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon on Apple Music. His approach to the arch-like span of the Seventh Symphony may seem at first a little smooth and understated, as if to avoid any hint of portentous rhetoric, yet it soon evolves into a widely-ranging yet tightly controlled account – at 21 minutes, among the livelier versions on disc, where Karajan, Bernstein and others, making a meal of every expressive gesture, could take 24 or 25. By Jean Sibelius Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham.
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With so many brilliant young conductors coming out of Finland in recent decades, it was nice to have a quid pro quo with the appointment last year of the 38-year-old Englishman Nicholas Collon as chief conductor of the Finnish Radio Orchestra – and doubtless inevitable that their first recording together would be of Sibelius. 105 (2008 Remastered Version): Vivace - Presto - Adagio. It’s a tremendous performance and its reputation amongst collectors as a classic Sibelius reading is amply justified.
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