Mark Elder & the Hallé
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tfdt
… is taken from two recent online Hallé presentations…
Strauss & Sibelius from here…
Glazunov & Kendall from here…
Tonight’s Radio 3 concert (part of Manchester Week)…
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Sibelius’s Third used to be one of his most popular in our country. Robert Layton said it was broadcast almost every week in the post war years.
So why is it a step child of the cycle today?
It beats me.
The first work I heard by Sibelius at my school I fell in love with the different sound . It as simple as that.
Thanks to maestro Elder for reviving it tonight on R3. He joins with Colin Davis in believing in this special work which can bring such joy to people who avoid Sibelius or simply don’t know it
Rather than being the “transitional” work so often mentioned it is , in fact, a work of tremendous importance in allowing Sibelius to move away from the “National Romanticism” of the earlier works towards a new world of discovery towards a symphonic form that inspires so many modern composers.