Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam

Sibelius: Svanevit (Swanwhite), JS 189
Sibelius: Ödlan (The Lizard), Op. 8 - incidental music
Sibelius: A Lonely Ski-Trail (Text: Bertel Gripenberg)
Sibelius: The Countess's Portrait (Grevinnans konterfej)
Sibelius: Overture in A minor, JS144
Sibelius: Kuolema, Op. 44
Sibelius: 2 Songs from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', Op. 60
Sibelius: King Kristian II, incidental music, Op. 27
Sibelius: Overture in E major, JS145
Sibelius: Scène de ballet, JS163
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast, JS48
Sibelius: Wedding March for Act III of Adolf Paul's play 'The Language of the Birds'
Sibelius: Cortège
Sibelius: Menuetto
Sibelius: Processional (‘Onward, Ye Peoples'), Op. 113 No. 6
Sibelius: Jedermann, Op. 83
Sibelius: Earnest Melodies (2) for violin or cello & orchestra, Op. 77
Sibelius: In memoriam, Op. 59 - Trauermarsch für Orchester
Sibelius: Pelléas and Mélisande Suite, Op. 46
Sibelius: Musik zu Einer Scène
Sibelius: Three Pieces, Op. 96
Sibelius: Morceau Romantique sur un motif de M. Jacob de Julin
Sibelius: Scaramouche, incidental music, Op. 71

Parallel to his great sequence of symphonic masterpieces and tone poems, Jean Sibelius wrote a significant body of music for the theatre. It was with King Christian II and Kuolema that he established his fame throughout Europe whilst some of his most hauntingly beautiful writing for the stage can be found in Belshazzar’s Feast. The tragic pantomime Scaramouche is Sibelius’s only continuous dramatic score and Pelléas et Mélisande is one of his most accomplished, whilst the rarely performed Jedermann is recognised as a hidden masterpiece. Gramophone wrote of these performances: ‘Leif Segerstam masterminds a characteristically unhurried, atmospheric display. What an absorbing journey of discovery this series has proved to be; congratulations to everyone involved.’