Composer : Sibelius, Jean Edition : Study score, Urtext Editor : Wicklund, Tuija Separate Parts available on demand
SKU: BR.SON-613
ISBN 9790004802816. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Written in 1892, En saga takes its place at the beginning of Jean Sibelius's symphonic poems, and is also the first orchestral work by the Finnish composer to have won a lasting place in the concert repertoire. After ten years and many successful performances, Sibelius was still unsatisfied with his work, which ultimately led him to radically shorten and revise the score. From then on, the revised version published in 1903 was the only valid one. The early version was left unprinted, and the manuscript initially thought to be lost. Both versions will be printed in their entirety in the Complete Edition Jean Sibelius Werke. Following En saga [op. 9/1892], the first edition of the early version, comes En saga op. 9, the first text-critical score of the definitive version.
SKU: BR.SON-609
ISBN 9790004802717. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Sibelius orchestral works rediscovered It was a minor sensation when in 1996 the conductor Osmo Vanska recorded a completely unknown, more than 20-minute-long orchestral work by the young Jean Sibelius in Lahti: Skogsraet (The Forest Nymph) had suddenly re-emerged. But this was no mere rediscovery, since in his later years, Sibelius had graciously agreed that his early work could be performed in a radically abridged form. He thus left his score in a rather confusing condition. Varsang (Spring Song), the second work in this volume of the Complete Edition, has two (or even three?) early versions, which makes for a most complicated source examination. Tuija Wicklund thus faced a mountain of problems in preparing the edition. The editor's meticulous work ultimately yielded three complete orchestral scores from the years 1894/95, thus from a period in which no one can claim that such pieces are early works. By this time, Sibelius had already made a name for himself in Finland with his first masterpieces Kullervo (1892), En saga (first version, 1892), the Karelia Suite (1893) and Rakastava (1894).
SKU: BR.PB-5564
ISBN 9790004213742. 6.5 x 9 inches.
It was indeed a minor sensation when conductor Osmo Vanska introduced curious listeners to the music of Skogsraet (English: The Wood Nymph) in a concert and on a CD recording in 1996. Who would have thought that there were still over 20 minutes of superb orchestral music by Sibelius to be discovered? It should be said that this is no early work that the composer later rejected. The Wood Nymph was written in 1895, thus shortly after the Kullervo Symphony and the first version of En saga.After the first performances, the Wood Nymph fell into a long sleep. It caught the public's attention momentarily in 1936 when it was performed in Helsinki at an official state ceremony and transmitted live on the radio.Who would have thought that there were still over 20 minutes of superb orchestral music by Sibelius to be discovered?
