It is easy to think of this 7th symphonie as a musical farewell, but Sibelius worked on his 8th almost till 1943, but then some years later he burned it up! Still living till 1957, his main music production is before this 1924. So it is almost a farewell, and when I listen to it I think of it as a farewell. A wonderful but short symphonie, full of emotions.

@lacedhexes

7 ай бұрын

Maybe that's exactly why he wanted it to be his last one. So that people would remember him by this. So in a way, it was a farewell.

@normanmeharry58

3 ай бұрын

Sib intended composing into his future.... Tapiola was a masterpiece and like a new promising direction. But he developed a hand tremour that slowed his scoring hand. His self-criticism was now of monstrous proportion in his symphonic composing, especially after the 7th and the resulting adulation. He did indeed work on an 8th and destroyed it in the mid 1940s according to Aino who found its destruction unbearable and fled the room. The biggest fragment of it is probably Surusoitto, Tapiola-like tones of symphonic potential.

@staffanolofsson8201

3 ай бұрын

@@normanmeharry58 Interesting! Still Tapiola, the last of the tone poems, is published as early as 1926, "in spite of the composers doubts and hesitations. In explanation of the title Sibelius offered a verse of his own: Wide they stand, the dark forest of the Northland, Old, mysterious, meditating wild dreams; There within lives the great God of the Forest And in the darkness wood-spirits weave their secret magic." Tapio is the God of the forest and Tapiola his country. All from Lemminkäinen and Kalevala. This above I have found in a text following one of my CD:s. And, as it stands: "An eight sympony was completed in 1929, but destroyed. The rest was silence." Best wishes!

@staffanolofsson8201

3 ай бұрын

@@normanmeharry58 And you are right, Tapiola and this seventh symphonie have a lot in common...

Such an absolutely incredible piece of music. You did it, Sibelius, with this one. Hope you rest in peace.

The audience either wanted to dwell on that beautiful ending or they didn't know the symphony had ended. The maestro Paavo Jarvi is smiling because he knows no other symphony has such a (lovely and) unexpected ending.

@Daverrr27

Жыл бұрын

Traditionally, you applaud at the end of the music when the conductor turns and faces the audience.

@WennAde

Жыл бұрын

Unexpected? Everything else. The ending has been painstakingly prepared for minutes and its arrival is a miraculous feeling of inevitability. When you hear it, you know it has been there for the whole symphony only waiting to be realized.

@deltaray3

9 ай бұрын

Yep. When I heard this on Symphony Hall this morning and then suddenly John Clare was talking about it, I was thinking "Oh, is it over? That was cool."

@frankstein9982

Ай бұрын

the last crescendo bars are just stunning, every time again, and that's why the audience needs a moment.

Sibelius and Jarvi family are a gift to the world of music. The spirit of Finland comes to life.

@waxerstarwarsexplained550

2 жыл бұрын

Estonian and finnish!

@coconuts1145

Жыл бұрын

beautiful comment! I feel the same way.

@staffanolofsson8201

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Neeme and his sons Paavo and Kristjan, all conductors from Estland, stands near the Finnish soul of Sibelius music. Nordic touch, the best it can be.

@peadarmckenzie5305

Жыл бұрын

I love a bit of cheeky s7, sibelius is an absolute rock star

@peadarmckenzie5305

Жыл бұрын

Unique 🎉

I don't know why I ignored Sibelius for so many years.

@chrissergeant7798

2 жыл бұрын

As a lover of classical music, I have as well, until Covid, until discovering the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Hearing their performance of the 2nd symphony blew me away, can't find a recording that compares.

@J_Montagu

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see you enjoy his composition as well! He's been by absolute favorite composer and his 7th has been one of my favorite symphonies.

@tennislibra

2 ай бұрын

To be honest, I kinda envy you. To hear his 2nd symphony for the very first time all over again. Ilo! Enjoy your Sibelius journey

Tradition is no worship of ashes, but is the preservation of fire. Bravo, and danke schön Frankfurt, and kiitos to maestro Jaarvi for such beautiful sounds of Suomi

@13169tanzyoub

6 ай бұрын

素敵で詩的な表現です。

@jaymox

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your opening quotation, the source of which I don't know. it is an insight to treasure, a neglected truth to reaffirm, and uncannily it chimes with a view I read only today: that in this 7th symphony in particular the music of Sibelius declares that it is not the last shout of nineteenth century romanticism but a first expression of a radicalism then further explored by Stravinsky and other 'modern' composers and their experiments with atonality. Your quotation has wider reference than music, of course, prompting us to reject the political labelling of tradition as reactionary.

@jamesgale2147

4 ай бұрын

Tradition ' the preservation fire' well I've never heard that before but it holds a lot of truth where the Christ brings the Holy Ghost and fire !

The 7th is a symphony in a single movement, but with implied "quasi-movements" (a scherzo, an adagio). Throughout, the grand linking theme, reappearing three times, each time with enhanced grandeur, like a great mountain peak in the distance, viewed fitfully, then clearly through mists. Profund and moving--this is a GREAT performance.

excellent I have NEVER heard anything so beautiful in all my life

10:03 I love how the twin piccolos peek out of the texture just a bit here, it’s nice to be able to hear it with the perfect amount of transparency that Jarvi pulls from the orchestra

@JeroenKransen

Жыл бұрын

I think the sound engineers deserve credit for that.

@rr7firefly

8 ай бұрын

Those nuanced touches are often what makes certain musical compositions memorable. It takes a trained ear to hear them. From childhood I remember one particular arrangement of Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz No. 1" -- the acceleration in the final section.

4:36 beautiful trombone solo! Just so, so disappointing to have the cameras not show him even once during the solo.

@hughanthony2001

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought. They showed a horn emptying his instrument instead... Very poor directing.

@tankej

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was a bummer. It's a shame when the camera operator doesn't know the music well. Still, a pretty tight performance and it's glorious to have a HD recording.

@briancorman8496

Жыл бұрын

At least we see Norwin getting the recognition he deserves when Jarvi has him stand up.

@evangabriel9187

Жыл бұрын

The Camera Man Thought The French Horn That Sings The Solo

@hahnnorwin

11 ай бұрын

thank you very much :)

"In his last symphonie, composed 1924, you can feel four different parts, although this is only one movement." So the books say. For me, knowing Sibelius and respecting Paavo Järvi, this is the ending of a beautiful journey. Thank you so much for this trip!

Gorgeous orchestration! And such a great orchestra! Love their sound.

Thank you all. Great comments by all. Outstanding performance . Bravo...

This symphony is billed as being in one movement. And it is - in that you hear a continuous 22 minutes of music without the usual between movement breaks. I listened to this symphony for years (really decades) before I figured out that there really is a four movement structure to it. The four 'movements' are preceded by rising scales. Of course, you have the rising extended A minor scale that opens the symphony and the first movement. At 6:23 the violins and violas start a similar rising scale (quickly doubled by the flutes and bassoons) that introduces a second movement that I've always thought of as rather scherzo-ish. At 11:09 (this is a little harder to pick up w/o a score) the divided violins and divided clarinets/bassoons alternate on rising scales that lead at the allegro molto moderato marking to the beginning at of what I think of as a lyric third movement. Then at 16:25 there are the slowly rising (whole note) scales in the brass - rising and dropping back several times that leads to the beginning of a really grand finale fourth movement at the 3/2 adagio mark and beginning with the third sounding of the famous C major trombone solo. It really is a whole new way to approach this symphony.

@keithtomlinson1280

11 ай бұрын

You are absolutely correct this has elements of multiple movements, but at the same time also forms a giant arch supported by three pillars (the trombone choral theme) Sibelius is the master of musical transition that he first pioneered in the Fifth. But this is a masterpiece of how to execute musical transition. Incredible that Sibelius achieves so much in 20 minutes or so. Sometimes I go back and listen to various episodes in the work, and marvel…how did he manage to get from this section to the next so seamlessly? A masterpiece and for me the greatest symphony of all.

@user-kh6qu3xu2v

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your observations, Keith. There are many components of Sibelius symphonies and other works I appreciate (like simply their beauty and inspirational qualities), but from the viewpoint of musical mastery (transitions and playing with temporal perception) this is the aspect of his music I find most fascinating. And he can do it with or without "trickery" (for lack of a better way to put it). There is the episode you reference from the Fifth Symphony where he changes the type of note value the beat is based on (dotted quarter to quarter), the time signature (from 12/8 to 3/4), the tempo (from moderato to allegro), and having four measures of the new paradigm occupy the same length of time as one measure of the previous. All done absolutely seamlessly. While in the Sixth Symphony about two and a half minutes into the first movement he creates the illusion of a faster tempo after the climax but while changing nothing - not the time signature or the tempo - by the simple trick of writing in quarter notes and half notes prior to the climax and writing in eighth notes and sixteenth notes after.

I've somehow managed never to hear this before, but it couldn't be by anyone else, could it?

@tennislibra

2 ай бұрын

😂 right!! Same for me. Only Sibelius!

In this symphony I feel something I've never found elsewhere.

So deeply moving

Der Himmel öffnet sich sich wenn Paavo Sibelius dirigiert

Paavi jarvi is so great, he is conducting and also playing cello at the same time. Bravo

Astonishing! The orch sound is absolutely well organized. Especially brasses, they were heroes of the concert. That grand themes were presented with total beauty. Absolutely stunning! Bravissimo!

@pedropozo6913

8 ай бұрын

el solo de trombón es muy hermoso....beautiful trombone solo .....minute 16,45 - 17,45 is sublime ¡¡¡¡

Such a fantastic orchestra. And Sibelius! Thank you!

Jarvi's fairly fast tempos bring out the light, dancelike quality of this symphony more than any performance in recent memory, but I think in doing so, the mysterious, pensive element in the score suffers. A great work such as this can, however, certainly maintain its integrity under the examination of many differing interpretations.

@richardjohns8617

Жыл бұрын

Interpretation is a personal matter. This is beautifully and excitingly played. However, as it is sometimes asserted to be a farewell Symphony, I would ideally prefer one that adopts the judgement of Sir Colin Davis: that it covers life 'from the cradle to the grave'. Therefore there is a more sequenced development of the themes. The end should articulate the ending of a life in an agonised manner.

@ronaldbwoodall2628

Жыл бұрын

@@richardjohns8617 I'm not sure that it was a "farewell symphony" in Sibelius' mind, since there exist, I believe, his sketches for an Eighth Symphony; it is rumored that he may have even completed it and it was supressed.

@normanmeharry58

3 ай бұрын

That interpretation is continually discussed, the mark of a major work.

Paavo is THE MAESTRO. He truly feels the music.

Moving and sublime. Thank you.

경이롭습니다 너무 너무 감사합니다 😊

If I were answering Stephen Colbert's Questionairt, this symphony would be the one piece of music I could listen to for the rest of my life. Järvi and his ensemble fill it with such indescribably rich feeling, this would be the performance I'd choose.

Absolutely wonderful.

Très belle symphonique 👍

A magnificent performance of a perfect masterpiece. Thank you.

This symphony helped explain the importance of musical structure to me. It made no sense until, on a relisten, I realised the first 4.5 minutes were a buildup to the beautiful climax at 4:36

Although this is Sibelius' last symphony it was followed two years later by his greatest tone poem, Tapiola, which is almost as long.

@gregoryfalkenstein4716

5 ай бұрын

Tapioca is every bit as much a masterpiece as the 7th Symphony, yet it is almost never performed in the U.S. It’s a travesty.

@knd1940

5 ай бұрын

I agree but you may want to fix your typo.😊@@gregoryfalkenstein4716

Truly a captivating piece and performance. Love the video too. Kudos to everyone involved. Now I want to come to Frankfurt.

Maravilloso Amo a Sibelius desde hace más de 30 años y he escuchado mil veces sus sinfonías y el resto de sus extraordinarias composiciones Genial orquesta y director Muchas gracias a youtube Un gran abrazo a todos los amantes de Sibelius desde Madrid

1. Adagio 00:04 trombone-solo 04:33 2. Un pochett. meno adagio 6:21 (rondo - 11:21 ?) 3. Adagio 16:42

Paavo jarvi is backkkk

a particularly pleasant 4:20

@ferrytaufik_

Жыл бұрын

literally the sibelius 7 start up sound 😂

lol. The camera person focuses on the first horn during the big trombone solo and is confused why they’re not playing.

Это было божественно! Поддерживаю, что это самая изысканная история!

HE IS INCREDIBLY HEART TOUCHING AND SOUL SOOTHING

4:35 Sad how the cameraman zooms in on the horn section instead of the 1st trombone with the Aino theme....

@rachelstubley2539

3 ай бұрын

Yes that was clumsy! And the sweet horn player didn't even play much at that point - and had a resting face that looked as though he was about to cry... ;-)

@jmbechtel

3 ай бұрын

I think that it is better to place "the blame" on the editing, no? 🫤

@rachelstubley2539

3 ай бұрын

You’re right it’s not the camera operator - but we don’t know whether there was ever a camera on the trombone ie maybe the director is to blame!?! 😅

@jmbechtel

3 ай бұрын

@@rachelstubley2539 A fair statement, indeed. 🤔😅

Thanks. Ciao.

What a shame that Sibelius has never been satisfied enough of his eighth symphony to publish it. This great masterpiece isn't really a symphony imo, more like a symphonic poem. Thanks to the orchestra for this interpretation.

@danielmasonmusic2353

Жыл бұрын

It's a symphony if Sibelius proclaims it a symphony.

@danielmasonmusic2353

Жыл бұрын

@@Dylonely42 it’s a symphony.

@danielmasonmusic2353

Жыл бұрын

@@Dylonely42 although i perform pop music I listen to classical music much more than pop! There are actually 4 distinct sections to Sibelius’ 7th that would to me suggest that it’s more akin to a traditional symphony than a symphonic poem, or we could even say it’s hybrid of the two genres. But hey, whatever the answer is, this piece will never cease to amaze me. I hear new things in it every time I listen to it, I adore Sibelius’ music!!

@Dylonely42

Жыл бұрын

@@danielmasonmusic2353 Thank you for your pleasing answer. There is several great parts in this symphony, such as the sublime brass sections.

@normanmeharry58

3 ай бұрын

Glad you included IMO. If you’re correct that this is a tone poem only, then there are a lot of sucker composers of the last 100 years going around thinking their one movement scores are symphonies.

Thank TwoSetV I am seeing this video!

@mavow_

11 ай бұрын

Same ahah

And---silence. However, no matter how much I enjoy and appreciate this work, I continue to believe that the most profundity is to be found in Sibelius' Symphony #4 and to some extent in Tapiola. 1911, the year #4 appeared, saw nothing comparable to it, even though it also saw Stravinsky's Firebird and Petruska, which admittedly were much more influential.

bellissimo

Really A GREAT PERFORMANCE. You need to listen to others to realize how beautiful this and other interpretations compare.

Para disfrutar al gran maestro Sibelius en video, es preciso llevar las cámaras con más frecuencia a los metales y a las maderas.Los trombones se captan poco y tienen un papel preponderante. Si va uno a la Alte Oper en Frankfurt ir arriba y no a platea. Magnífico director P. Jarvi y la orquesta genial como siempre!

one of the guy is looking like durkheim T____T this is such a beautiful symphony!! i enjoyed it vv much

4:35 なんでトロンボーンのソロを撮らないんだああああ！

❤️❤️❤️

좋군..

Beautifully done. I don't think it can be anymore perfect.

Es wäre so schön auch Alan Pettersson zu spielen. Ein so großartiger Komponist

All those empty seats - how I would have loved to be in one of them.

i love sibelius very much, but it is precisely with this symphony that you feel, and he probably felt it himself, that he couldn't leave the 19th century with his music. he felt it himself. it became clear to him. that's why he stopped. He made the best of what was available up to that point, world class, but he lacked the creative imagination of Bruckner, who was probably not aware of it himself. he just had her. it hurts to see sibelius fail so absolutely. but thanks for the wonderful ones. grandiose moments of your art! they stand for themselves and are allowed to.

@carsonwall2400

8 ай бұрын

What exactly was so imaginative about stodgy old Bruckner lol?

@gregoryfalkenstein4716

5 ай бұрын

Respectfully SO disagree-Sibelius was far from a failure, he was on the contrary the greatest symphonist after Beethoven. The 7th Symphony and Tapiola culminate the musical language he developed over the first 50ish years of his life, and it’s not hard to see that he could take that language no further beyond these two profound masterpieces. To the extent that Sibelius’ greatest works seem exhaled from the spheres, as though they have existed since the beginning of time, to me it is the divine will of the Universe that he stopped where he did. A failure? No!!!!!!

the look he gives to the audience when they forget to clap. 😅

❤

Lindo

🎻🙇‍♀️💕🌹🍃✨💐

👍👍👍

@probsteiergalerieHH

2 жыл бұрын

°🤍☆🕊*GLOBAL* *LOVE* UNITED NOW ༺✿ ༻♡

Sibelius´ letzte Sinfonie. Ganz schlicht in C-Dur gehalten. Noch einmal hat der große Sohn Finnlands sein ganzes Können gezeigt!

Nice to see even an amazing orchestra and conductor are fallible!

@gregorypalmer5403

2 ай бұрын

How so ? Not arguing; just curious.

@vincenthardaker7175

2 ай бұрын

@@gregorypalmer5403 Oh leading up to the final statement of the trombone theme they get a decent amount out. But they get back in.

@gregorypalmer5403

2 ай бұрын

​@@vincenthardaker7175I did catch that ! Small muff imo tho I do hear ya !

4:35 9:45 16:44

Essa orquestra precisa contratar um diretor de imagens que respeite mais a partitura. Não mostrar os trombones no tema principal é um sacrilégio.

@speed7944

Жыл бұрын

sacrilégio

@boyanaskrbic

8 ай бұрын

​@@speed7944 * sacrilegio 🌷

I used to fall asleep to this as a teenager. The final note is the killer.

@aytonsalazar141

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

16:25 build up | 17:10 climax |

◑ 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 ◐

4:35 Cameraman missed the trombone 🤣

4:16

Revolution 9 brought me here

Don't you see aurora? I've seen.

3:02

Beautiful and glorious playing. A great orchestra and conductor. However, whoever was responsible for the camera work should understand the music, instead of demonstrating camera work.

Rob Cowan kzread.info/dash/bejne/c6aeusigms_QY6Q.html considers Sibelius No 7 ‘the greatest symphony of the twentieth century’!

4:37 why wouldn't they get the trombones? Weird choice...

7th

Wunderschöne und detaillierte Aufführung dieser einzigartig konstruierten doch perfekt komponierten Sinfonie mit gut harmoniserten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der intelligente und unvergleichliche Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Alles ist nordisch!

@chrissergeant7798

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know a lot of German, but enough to know I agree.

@kelsocampbell1301

Жыл бұрын

gut gesagt, mein Bruder!

This Sibelius was like artist of today! One hit miracles! Sibelius had one and one hit only! Fjinlandia!😅

@howardhoyinchu543

7 ай бұрын

Hello @elfillari, 👋🤗 thank you for your comments! However, I must disagree -- please enjoy Sibelius's earlier symphonies, full of life, cantabile, romance, and Finnish soul. Namely, I would suggest his 2nd for lyricism and grandiosity, 5th for poetry, swansongs, and colour, and Tapiola as his soulful and satisfied farewell. Not to mention also the brilliant Karelia, to which many contemporaries study it for it's prolifically colourful orchestration.

@andrewpetersen5272

7 ай бұрын

A juvenile observation of unquestionable ignorance.

Way to not focus on the trombone during the solo passages. F-

There is nothing Finnish about this symphony. It's human. Maybe super-human, but not tied to one country. Sibelius spent his youth only speaking Swedish, traveled as much as he could around Europe, was always in touch with other Europeans and lived the last thirty years of his life in the countryside away from all but his family and friends. Any attempt to tie him or any other great composer down to a nation state of the 19th century is a bit sad. And, as in the case of Wagner, dangerous.

@staffanolofsson8201

Жыл бұрын

Of course you are right in a way. Sibelius traveled a lot and was influenced by all european music. Still I think there is an unmistakeable finnish aura about his music. What this "aura" consists of can be discussed. For me, when I hear this music, it is obvious that it comes from Finland.

@WennAde

Жыл бұрын

Swedish is one of two national languages in Finland. Being a Swedish-speaking Finn does not make you any less a Finn than being a Finnish-speaking one. Sibelius was a National Romantist and his music played an important part in creating a Finnish national culture which was a crucial precondition for establishing an independent Finnish state, too. So you can't say Sibelius' music cannot be connected to the Finnish national state - though, even more to Finnish nature, which was more important to him than anything his traveling in Europe had to offer. It was his dearest inspiration. But yes, still, of course his music is much more than just Finnish, there is a more universal aspect to it, and of course it is fully rooted in European tradition.

@staffanolofsson8201

Жыл бұрын

@@WennAde Ade, I like your comment and agree. Du sa i stort sett det jag också tycker!

@PaulVinonaama

Жыл бұрын

A slight correction: while Swedish was Sibelius's first language, he couldn't have "spent his youth only speaking Swedish," because he went to a Finnish-speaking school.

@peadarmckenzie5305

Жыл бұрын

What a great comment, bravo to you

thrilling high drama, incisive rhetoric - just too fast for this reveler in hues and oceanic sonics.

Tremendous performance and beautifully played by a first class orchestra under the direction of a master. Just a very sad pity to see the professional orchestra playing from photocopied music (16:33). Maybe the management would like to explain!

Warum ist das Konzert so unglaublich schlecht verkauft? Es sitzt ja kaum jemand im Publikum.

@bigpigpik

Жыл бұрын

seat restrictions due to COVID, maybe?

Es ist alles Griechisch! Brandneue Aufnahme für volles Orchester, Klavier und Folk-Instrumente, alle Originalmelodien, inspiriert von meiner Zeit, als ich griechische Musik spielte. Ich hoffe, Ihre Sommerstimmung zu heben. Opa! kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYOK2qOyh6-4csY.html

never knew putin can conduct both a symphony and a war

That venue looks to be half empty, yet 80,000 will pack a stadium to see somebody lip synch garbage. There is no God.

4:14

4:35 9:28

3:56