Göteborgs Symfoniker
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 4

Chief Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the GSO launches its latest recording of works by Jean Sibelius. The previous editions have been hailed by the international press and nominated the GSO as Orchestra of the Year for the Gramophone Classical Music Awards. The recordings are issued by Alpha Classics. Sibelius fourth symphony is now released on volume 4 amongst other works. Enjoy a concert version from November 2021 here at GSOplay!

Gramophone, the world’s best classical music reviews, writes in a review in 2020:
“Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s recording of Sibelius’s First Symphony and En saga (3/19) received a string of accolades following its release last year, including a nomination for best recording in the Orchestral category of the Gramophone Awards. This second release in his Sibelius cycle featuring the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra is equally impressive. As before, Rouvali’s performance is distinguished by an arresting vividness and clarity, allowing the listener to perceive details normally lost in the overall sound picture while presenting a compellingly structured and unmannered view of the symphonic journey” – Author: Edward Seckerson.

With Sibelius’ fourth symphony, we enter historic ground. The symphony has been on the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire for over 100 years, and the orchestra has gained insights from its highest authority: the composer himself.

In 1915 Sibelius himself conducted the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in this piece.
The local critic wrote: “The joy of playing under the personal guidance of the genius composer, and interpreting his rich and interesting compositions, created a great urge in the playing and an animated eagerness to stretch all limits, which also resulted in extremely beautiful achievements.”

This tradition is kept alive with the orchestra’s chief conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who with the enigmatic and moving fourth symphony continues his journey through the composer’s seven symphonies.

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Programme

Sibelius Symphony No. 4

Participants

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor