I am an elderly Japanese. As a child, I lived in the far north countryside. My hobby is listening to overseas radio broadcasts, and on the day I first listened to Radio Finland, the music played at the start of the broadcast was Karelia's No. 1. That's why I fell in love with Sibelius and I started listening to a lot of classical music. Karelia suites is still one of my favorite suites.

@VisiblyJacked

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps Finland is a little like the landscape of Tohoku or Hokkaido? :-) Have a good day!

@chrismelville5504

Жыл бұрын

Japan is one of my favourite places in the world. Love from Mongolia. I came to listen to this again after years, because our friend from Karelia is making her first trip to Khuvsgul Lake, near the Russian border.

@avecormariae8729

Жыл бұрын

木村さん スイスからこんにちは。

@diogenesthedog3074

Жыл бұрын

That's beautiful beyond words.

@patricksawyer5544

Жыл бұрын

Brahms: Symphony No 4

For everybody complaining about the train and the cottage: if I am not mistaken this piece depicts Jean Sibelius' and Aino Järnefelt's honeymoon in Karelia. The Intermezzo is the trip to Karelia by train -and you can even hear in the back, very low, the deep breaths of the train's engine bearing the compasse. The ballade is their first night as a married couple, they're making love in the night, in a kota (cottage), to the music. That is why it is so mellow, sweet and delicate. And the Alla marcia is the trip back from Karelia to wherever they lived at the time, be it Helsinki or Hämeenlinna or wherever. You can hear the train again on the back. I think I am not mistaken and hope this was useful. Sibelius was a mastermind at depicting emotions through his scores.

@rickvb8407

3 жыл бұрын

Well I'm glad there's no active inset for the ballade, lol, although the night scenes are suggestive :)

@pamos1949

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. The work was commissioned by a student association in Viipura in aid of a charity raising money for education. Sibelius and Aino honeymooned in Karelia the next year.

@pamos1949

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy True. The Suite reflects their time in Karelia, but it does not depict their honeymoon, as Mr. Dameson suggests. Indeed, were it true, the idea would be amusing to toy with, mulling what each movement seeks to portray.

@pamos1949

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy You are an officer and a gentleman, sir!

@Itapirkanmaa2

3 жыл бұрын

No it has nothing to do with Aino or their relationship. Who told you that? To be remembered that it's only a part of the very large Karelia music that Sibelius composed in his youth's burst mode for a fundraiser event.

This Sibelius puce of music I have listened umpteen times, It brings tears in my eye, as my mother escape from Karelia with her family of mother and five of siblings I'm 1039. She died last year at 103.,

Have always loved the Karelia Suit from the time I first heard as a young lad in the late 1950s.

This music is made of Finland's deep primeval forests, glittering waterways, the aroma from pine trees and the serene ambiance of the Finnish rural country.

People keep referring to this as a song. There is no singing - so it’s not a song! It’s an amazing classical orchestral piece.

@diarmuidkuhle8181

3 жыл бұрын

One definition of a 'song' is merely the synonym of 'melody'. So yes this piece of music might be considered a song even though it isn't performed by human voices (it definitely COULD be sung though). I'm a singer myself and I wish there were words to go with this because the tune is glorious

@Dylonely42

Жыл бұрын

@@diarmuidkuhle8181 I disagree. This is a piece of music, not a song. A song has lyrics, there’s no lyrics here.

I love how Sibelius used the trombone. And this orchestra sounds really amazing!

For those in the UK who can remember back to the 1970s, part the first section of the Karelia Suite was the theme music for the ITV current affairs programme called This Week. And a cracking composition it is too. Sibelius is one of my favourite composers. Check out his Finlandia suite as well to see what I mean.

@eugeniorevueltarabasa4035

4 жыл бұрын

¡¡INSUPERABLE!!

@eugeniorevueltarabasa4035

4 жыл бұрын

Ģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģgģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģghģģģģģģfgģģģgfhģģgģggggģggģggggggģģģhgģggggģģģhgģfgģggģfgģģģgģģghggģģģģhgģģgģggģģģģģģhgģģģģģģģģģģhgģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģģñ

@normanmeharry58

4 жыл бұрын

And don't forget that BBC's longest running programme, The Sky at Night music was also Sibelius.... At the Castle Gate, Beecham conducting RPO back in 52. I fell in love with Sibs distinctive voice there & then altho I was only 5.

@26rude

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I remember it well. I used to watch it every week. Just can’t remember the name of the presenter though.

@dennisdubois591

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, unfortunately we dont get a lot of Sibelius these days in concert :(

Really beautiful. Ashkenazy and Sibelius are legends.

what a inspireing piece of music sends chills down your spine

About once a year I remember this video and immediately need to come watch it-- the train makes me so happy!!! It never ever fails to brighten my day

[00:00] -- 1. Intermezzo [03:55] -- 2. Ballade [12:17] -- 3. Alla marcia

@alainlejeune1981

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks !

My mum introduced me to Sibelius' music with this Suit in the 1960s. Loved his works ever since.

the ballade is work of God...thank you Sibelius.....Argentina loves you....

Most outstanding version ever. Bravo. John (Australia)

A very competent performance, as to be expected by such a brilliant orchestra and conductor. Stirring. musical with a very creditable brass tempo.

I was in my mother,s womb and listened to this song . With the beating of my mother,s heart , this song will rest my heart . I will be able to meet my favorite mother someday . In remembrance of late my mother 🍎 From effulgent Tokyo in profound Japan in winter . Which national are you watching this video ？

@navegante2014

4 жыл бұрын

Shin-i-chi Kozima .....Saludos desde Santiago de Chile, hacia fines del seco invierno.......

@adelaidefrance9026

3 жыл бұрын

Very moving! I am French, living in Versailles and thinking of my love going to Carelia....

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@@navegante2014 ありがとう‼️ Japanese thank-you ！ Sorry the very late my reply . I could not discover your good comment till now . I am sorry How is your conditions and country ？ Marvellous autumn comes in Japan . In the autumn , the plaintive chirp of the ephemeral life's autumn insects permeates our Japanese hearts from 100years ago . Someday please visit Japan in spring where the cherry blossoms in full bloom in everywhere . Take care of yourself Good luck ！ Be on the alert for Coronavirus infection ！

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@@adelaidefrance9026 Thank-you so much to your wonderful and heartfelt comment ! Japan is amazing autumn . Autumn has the aesthetics of autumn . In the endless vibrant autumn night view of choice Tokyo , the various emotions of 14 million people's sorrow , pleasures , grief , suffering , regret and anger are blended together , shining as if those feelings were colorful neon lights . Do you have the Japanese way of thinking about the atmosphere and wistful and sadness of autumn ？ Take care of yourself Good luck ！ Be on the alert for Coronavirus infection ！

@dap4699

3 жыл бұрын

@@shin-i-chikozima that's so wholeseme my fellow human! I've met you before in classical, in fact we wrote each other once very briefly (I changed my username by the way) and I told you that you seem like a very very nice person, and here I am thinking it again. Best wishes.

IRC, Linux, sauna, Koskenkorva, SMS, Nightwish, Jari Litmanen, Nokia, Angry Birds, Kimi Raikkonen, Sibelius... Some of my fave things from Finland.

Happy Birthday to the Late Jean Sibelius and Merry Christmas ☃️🎄 Go HUG someone today IF they're been vaccinated or not 🚫 Greet all the Christians with a Holy EMBRACE 1 Thessalonians 5:26 and do it responsibly Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!

I first heard this on the Boston Classical Music radio, 99.5, WCRB. I waited till the end to find out the name of the piece, and I heard the "Chorale" Suite by Sibelius. And when I looked it up, I was so disappointed to find nothing. I'm so glad to finally have found it after 2 months of giving up.

Sibelius is and was fantastisc ❤❤❤❤❤RAa

This is the culmination of music that encourages the humans and is pleasing to the ear and the mind

Das ist für mich das schönste Musik-Stück von Sibelius. Besonders der elegische Mittelteil, genannt "Ballade", hat eine Faszination, die seinesgleichen sucht. - Und die Interpretation unter Ashkenazy ist meisterhaft.

@hugokubarth9316

3 жыл бұрын

...Faszination sucht ihresgleichen, nicht seinesgleichen ...

@matzek.9119

2 жыл бұрын

@@hugokubarth9316 Wilhelm Tell ist Schweizer, da kann das schon mal passieren :)

@hugokubarth9316

2 жыл бұрын

Ist kein spezifisch Schweizer Fauxpas gibts alle Tage in allen deutschsprachigen Landen...

@matzek.9119

2 жыл бұрын

@@hugokubarth9316 war auch eher als Spaß gemeint bezüglich seines Namens.

merveilleuse interprétation, Sibélius donne à rêver d'une vie idylique

Un fragmento del intermezzo era utilizado como fondo musical de un popular programa deportivo en Chile por los 80, conducidos por recordados comentaristas ya fallecidos como Sergio Livingstone y Julio Martines.

Dank u, Sib elius, voor deze prachtige muziek.

Lovely. Thank you for uploading it.

Sublime. Beautiful images.

Magnificent, quite simply magnificent.

00:00 Intermezzo 03:54 Ballade 12:16 Alla Marcia

wonderful interpretation! thank you for uploading

What a fabulous Horn Theme.

This masterpiece is the stronghold of my soul

Gracias por subir este video.

Really GREAT recording...and thanks for the LOCO-pics for a railway-fan....

magnifique musique video et beau pays

Perfect piece for New Years.

How mutable is the world ！ Life is liable to vicissitude Vicissitudes are the lot of man However , This masterpiece will surpass the times and race and nation . I am just intoxicated with this incomparable performance . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

Lovely and beautiful graphic arrangement

love it

Wonderful music great composer and lovely pictures.

@angie6995

7 жыл бұрын

Not keen on the train in the middle of my phone screen obscuring the view. Maybe it is diferent on a PC or laptop.

All of Shibelius embodies the spiritual aesthetics of Finland

Wonderful .........!!!!!!!

Beautifuil music!!!!!!!

Thank you (from France !)

@greatclassicrecords

7 жыл бұрын

Ha, from France. Sibelius is not really popular in France, is he ? In the Netherlands the last 30 years he is becoming more and more appreciated. Maybe next decade also in France and Germany....

Muchas gracias David Efron. Me ha gustado mucho la descripción que ha hecho del viaje en el tren de Sibelius y su esposa. Yo soy hija de ferroviario y el tren siempre evoca en mi los mejores recuerdos de mi niñez. Volviendo a escuchar la pieza de Alla Marcia, efectivamente su ritmo me sitúa en el tren y ahora si le encuentro sentido a esa imagen.

Hermosa música.

フィンランドに神の祝福と栄光あれ‼️Epic melody ‼️Standing Ovationaly❗ May glory , prosperity and weather be brought to Finland where we Japanese people deeply love and respect and long for ‼️

素晴らしい

I think was one of his best great for bike riding ever hear his voice?? Old interviews avail dosnt math his picture at all

Proud and triumphant :)

This is the country that resisted the Nazis so successfully and bravely. Great music.

@Itapirkanmaa2

8 жыл бұрын

+Jon Laan No, we fought along with the Germans against the Soviet Union (and nominally against the British Empire as well) in WWII, in 1941-44. The other Finnish conflicts in WWII were the Winter War in 1930-40 (in which Germany and the Soviet Union were in secret alliance against Finland), and the Lapland War in 1944-45 (in which Finland and the Soviet Union [and nominally the British Empire as well] were in a de facto alliance against Germany). This piece is a part an occasional series in 1893 of which Sibelius only ultimately accepted four pieces. He destroyed most of the other scores. They have been reconstructed with the surviving fragments and lastly with the composer Kalevi Aho having filled in the missing bits.

@Judel100

8 жыл бұрын

+Jon Laan Erm, Finland was actually an ally of Nazi Germany. You're thinking of the Finnish resistance to the Soviets.

@Itapirkanmaa2

8 жыл бұрын

Judel100 If we're really picky about history, Germany was in a secret alliance against Finland in 1939-40, co-belligerent in 1941-44, and an enemy of Finland in 1944-45.

@angie6995

7 жыл бұрын

Art and sports should transcend politics. Always.

@merlenebishop4760

7 жыл бұрын

I fully agree with that statement. I think art and music can transcend and TRANSFORM politics and military situations.

I believe that the train mentioned in so many comments comes from a documentary that Ashkenazy made about Sibelius.

Wow so good ❤❤❤RAa

This video is the oasis of hearts of urbanites who were tiring in the hustle and bustle of the big city like London , Paris , Tokyo , New York as Megalopolis with unimaginable muderous crowds , dangers and their relationship swirling . From Tokyo in the dizzying Megalopolis ablaze with neon Which national are you watching this video ？

オリンピックのスキー競技を見るのにこの曲は素晴らしくあっています。

e ti senti così piccolo, davanti a te ce l'universo

Sibelius met le soleil que son pays n'a pas dans sa musique..

Fantastic version of the suite! Great tempo throughout. And a brilliant video too, except for those little images of a train and sauna cottage, which blocked the full view of most of the pictures...

@greatclassicrecords

7 жыл бұрын

Sibelius did make a Honeymoon-trip to Karelia, with a train, and sauna and Finland are not to be separated.

@iansutton9746

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. Those super-imposed images badly detract from the lovely scenes of Karelia or Finland.

@harmientorenbeek6982

5 жыл бұрын

Close your eyes..... and imagine you are there. Even better, get the CD and listen thru your head phones!

Yes ❤❤❤❤🎉RAa

Other than this performance and song , there were no songs and performances that conveyed the waves of deep emotion and pleasure and marvelous feeling to the depths of my soul .

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy Thank-you Good luck ！

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy Thank-you so much to your fabulous , and specutacular comments Someday please come to Japan Beyond description's Japanese delicious foods , immeasurable heartfelt hospitality and unfathomable amazing and marvellous things wait for you Japanese people deeply love Sibelius I'm a Japanese Brucknerian , and deeply love Sibelius and Debussy

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy Thank-you I'm looking forward to your Bruckner's comments Take care of yourself Good luck ！

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy Thank-you I finished the first vaccination yesterday Next second vaccination is August ６days Good luck ！

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy Thank-you Good night

TOSI YSTÄVÄ ❤❤❤❤❤❤RAA

Why is there a train lol 🚂

私もこのように人生を歩みたい。この曲のように。

Not sure what the steam engine is doing in the video here, this piece of music is about a hunt in the snow: you can hear the beat of the horse's hooves, the horn is a hunting horn.

@jerebuck

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy I'm interested in how the hoofbeats of horses has affected classical music, which it must have, given that all the early composers were surrounded by them. They'd have been in carriages drawn by horses or ridden them and when you listen to the hoofbeat of horses you'll find two, three, four, six, eight and even more complex rhythms especially if there are four horses travelling at the same speed. Even if their hoofbeats appear uneven, there is always a moment of synchronicity and this must have been of great interest to a musical mind. The Sibelius piece is clearly based on a hunt: you can every beat of horses's hooves both in a sleigh and free. Or at least, it appears unmistakably so to me and I handle horses all the time.

@jerebuck

3 жыл бұрын

@ageingdrummerboy In your opinion. Notwithstanding does it not remain an interesting co-incidence that the gaits of horses match musical measure so precisely, given that all the classical composers lived in the times when the common means of transport was by horse?

Without Sibelius' works , the music world would have been very lonely and insipid , and the enjoyment and pleasures of the music world would have been less , and I would feel that the music world is like the taste of stale beer From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

Preciosa suite,bellos y tranquilos parajes, lástima q el tren y la pequeña cabaña, están fuera de lugar. Saludos desde Honduras!

@martineve213

3 жыл бұрын

Gloria García Rodas pues tiene razón, el tren sobra en las imágenes.

@gobearsII

2 жыл бұрын

@@martineve213 please refer to the explanation of the train and the cabin in winter - Sibelias wrote it to commemorate his marriage and their honeymoon trip so the steam engine was integral to that memory. In this instance Karelia was quite sweet and, as such inspired his Suite. ¡Que' bellisimo!

Today the first day of Putin invision to Ukraine is good time to remember that Karelia was part of Finland but Russia annexed it.

01:10: A lo que vinimos (x 1.5)

God,s blessing and glory to the great Finland‼️ Greetings from Japan . Which national person are you seeing this video ？

@asitchoudhuri6416

2 жыл бұрын

Indian from Brazil, live here for the last 40 years

What's with the locomotive?

躍動感そのもの

12:55

1:17

Let's ignore the masterwork being played and kvetch on about The Train Issue. It's there for a reason, FFS.

Free Karelia STOP OCCUPATION

WTF is that train doing in the video???

Would love to hear this with totally french horns ,no tru Ets Y

I Love it! But, I would very much like to derail that steam engine and perhaps burn down the house. They were in the way of the photos.

@greatclassicrecords

6 жыл бұрын

The travels by train to Karelia were important for Sibelius mental condition and didn't he make a honeymoon trip to Karelia?

8:18

Great music and performance, but please make the ridiculous superimposed photos go away.

A great composition to help herald hope - with the swearing in of President Biden

Great music and photos of Finland. Please get rid of the idiotic cartoons.

A perfectly beautiful vid completely ruined by an attempt at creativity as if the choo-choo/cottage could in any way enhance the natural beauty of this land. Whoever put this vid together should be ashamed!

@jupitersailing

4 жыл бұрын

I had to scroll away from the video when the choo-choo emerged. What a shame as the music is beautiful Finnish genius. It's especially interesting if you grew up in the UK of the 1960s and 1970s and were subjected to This Week (or World In Agony or whatever it was called!), as your parents were assaulted with frowning commentaries and monochrome pictures of striking miners, NF street battles and fishing quotas being lost (subsequently discovered to be due to Ted Heath's kiddy-fiddling). By the way, it's said that the episode of This Week titled Death On The Rock questioning the outcome of the inquiry into the Gibraltar killings lost Thames TV its franchise, showing that political censorship of TV was alive and well even back then. Never question the government's decisions or they'll get you, one way or another. Anyway, the similarity to many of Tchaikovsky's pretty diversions might say something about that part of the world and the kind of folk it produces.