Title: Historical, not stuffy!, versions of Sibelius
Review: The Karelia set is played as a tone poem usually. This version has thesung middle portion. I recommend getting the Järvi tone poem setbefore this. It also has the shorter King Christian set given here in expandedform. The reason for getting both is that the composer himself editedthe shortened orchestral sets that are popular. That is, they are inno way lesser versions. That said, I like all the work on this disc aswell. Each piece has one vocal track. I especially like th one inKarelia. Pelleas and Melisande here runs about 5 minutes longer thanthe common version. The tracks do not have descriptive names, but aremuch the same.Järvi bargain discSibelius: Tone Poems
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