Alert Me

Want us to email or text message you when this item becomes available?


Sign up
  
   
 
   
More Buying Choices
Get it for less! Order it used
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Sibelius - Complete Songs / 4cd box set
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Sibelius - Complete Songs / 4cd box set [Box set]

~ Jean Sibelius (Artist), Soderstrom (Artist), Tom Krause (Artist), Ashkenazy (Artist)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available.


Special Offers and Product Promotions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Complete Piano Works (13CD)

Complete Piano Works (13CD)

~ Robert Schumann
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)  £54.29
Schubert: Impromptus, D899 & 935

Schubert: Impromptus, D899 & 935

~ Franz Schubert
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £5.98
Tchaikovsky: Symphonic Poems; "Manfred" Symphony

Tchaikovsky: Symphonic Poems; "Manfred" Symphony

~ Russian National Orchestra
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £23.09
Weiss: Lute Sonatas (Transcribed for Guitar) [Box Set]

Weiss: Lute Sonatas (Transcribed for Guitar) [Box Set]

~ Silvius Leopold Weiss
£35.69
Shostakovich - Complete Violin,Cello & Piano Concertos / 3CD Set

Shostakovich - Complete Violin,Cello & Piano Concertos / 3CD Set

~ Heinrich Schiff
5.0 out of 5 stars (2)  £19.99
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Audio CD (14 Jun 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B0002852K8
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 195,133 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Disc: 1
1. Serenad
2. Nu star jul vid snöig port, Op.1, No.1
3. Nu sa kommer julen, Op.1, No.2
4. Det mörknar ute, Op.1, No.3
5. Giv mig ej glans, Op.1, No.4
See all 21 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Segelfahrt
2. Souda, souda, sinisorsa
3. Jubel, Op.35, No.1 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Elisabeth Söderström
4. Teodora, Op.35, No.2
5. Svarta Rosor, Op.36, No.1
See all 20 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Lenzgesang, Op.50, No.1
2. Sehnsucht, Op.50, No.2
3. Im Feld ein Mädchen singt, Op.50, No.3
4. Aus banger Brust, Op.50, No.4
5. Die stille Stadt, Op.50, No.5
See all 26 tracks on this disc
Disc: 4
1. Kyssen, Op.72, No.3
2. Kaiutar, Op.72, No.4
3. Der Wanderer und der Bach, Op.72, No.5
4. Hundra vagar, Op.72, No.6 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Elisabeth Söderström
5. Varförnimmelser, Op.86, No.1
See all 26 tracks on this disc

Tag this product

 (What's this?)
Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.
Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews
5 star:
 (2)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Complete songs, 30 Jul 2004
By A Customer
This is the long awaited reissue of the 4CD Argo set which won the 1985 Gramophone Solo Vocal Award, yet oddly enough the notes indicate it was taped at the Kingsway Hall from 1978-1981. At the time many of the items were premieres, though most have since been duplicated on the Swedish BIS label's own Sibelius song series, albeit sung by female voices.

The bulk of all 4 CDs are mainly Swedish songs sung by baritone Tom Krause - including the famous Op.36 "black roses" "sigh sigh rushes" "diamond on the March snow" - Soderstrom only sings 2 or 3 songs on each disc. Disc 1 has two Finnish settings, disc 2 another, disc 3 includes the 6 German songs Op.50, disc 4 another Finnish song "Kaiutar", plus a French Maeterlinck setting from Pelleas et Melisande.

Presentation is very neat. Like the Rosette series - also only available in the UK - the Gramophone Awards series includes an inner booklet in the series livery with the texts and English translations from the original LP release. Total time 232'48".

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
5.0 out of 5 stars Unfamiliar Sibelius, 18 Sep 2009
By J. K. Baksi "Jak Baksi" (Lewes, East Sussex,UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
Sibelius the symphonist is well known but Sibelius the song-writer? There are quite a few recordings around of selections from his 100+ songs and many are very good, even excellent. But none have the authority and breadth of scope of this 4 disc Complete Songs recording, a welcome reissue of the vinyl recordings dating from the late 1980s. Tom Krause and Elisabeth Soderstrom are in mellifluous voice and have an unrivalled command of the material they sing. With a few execptions, all the songs are set to Swedish texts by poets who are not well known outside Swedish speaking circles. And as regards Sibelius as a song writer, arguably he holds his own against contemporaries like Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf or Edvard Grieg. The songs cover an enormous field but most impressive and appealing of all are the wonderfully evocative songs about nordic legends and landscapes; here we are close to the symphonist. This recording is a jewel and anyone interested in unfamiliar song repertoire should snap it up.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.