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| Which is your favourite Sibelius Tone Poem? |
| En Saga (Op. 9) |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Legends (Op. 22) |
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12% |
[ 2 ] |
| Finlandia (Op. 26) |
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6% |
[ 1 ] |
| Pohjola's Daughter (Op. 49) |
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37% |
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| Night Ride and Sunrise (Op. 55) |
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12% |
[ 2 ] |
| The Bard (Op. 64) |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| The Oceanides (Op. 73) |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Tapiola (Op. 112) |
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31% |
[ 5 ] |
| Other (please specify below) |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
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Kurkikohtaus
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World Violist, if you have listened to and come to love Tapiola, you are an experience Sibelius listener. |
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Moldyoldie
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Kurkikohtaus
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Granted that not everyone at the forum votes nor is obliged to, nevertheless I find the so-far heavy concentration on Pohjola's Daughter and Tapiola very interesting. I would have expected voting to be more spaced out, given the wide range of selections. |
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World Violist
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Oh, we just realize that Tapiola and Pohjola's Daughter absolutely own! 
Seriously, though, those two are Sibelius at his best: the quintessential Sibelian sound is no more apparent than in those two pieces. |
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Sibs9th
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:25 am Post subject: |
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Night Ride and Sunrise (Op. 55)
The Bard (Op. 64)
What??! 
No-one, NO-ONE voted for The Bard? Shocking. Both the above are my favourites, but as always, when I hear Tapiola, THAT comes first above all else... 
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kullervopete
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Nice that you too have put Nightride at the top of the pile. Interesting also that you have voted for The Bard. Its a fine work, in fact a masterpiece, but I suppose that its introspective musings are not as immediately dramatic as many of the other tone poems.--kp
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hangos
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| kullervopete wrote: |
| Strange that nobody has yet voted for 'Nightride and Sunrise', this great piece seems to me to embody all Sibs finest attributes in which he describes a solitary figure riding alone at night amid desolate nature, Tapio is lurking in the shadows. But as the dawn breaks, his spirit lifts and we experience the Nordic sunrise, radiant and glorious. For me the greatest sunrise in music and I include Ravel.--kullervopete. |
I agree, I love the ostinati so typical of Sibelius, the fine detail and the atmosphere, and that transition from "night terrors" to the gratefully witnessed sunrise, replete with such beautiful brass writing, is a true hymn to nature. I could listen to this piece all day and night! 
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kullervopete
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| hangos wrote: |
I agree, I love the ostinati so typical of Sibelius, the fine detail and the atmosphere, and that transition from "night terrors" to the gratefully witnessed sunrise, replete with such beautiful brass writing, is a true hymn to nature. I could listen to this piece all day and night! |
I'm glad that you share my thoughts on Nightride and yes what glorious brass. Sibelius always writes so well for the brass, so scowling and baleful. But in Nightride the brass has a quite unusual warmth for Sibelius--he is after all depicting the Sunrise.-kp
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