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« on: August 17, 2015, 08:57:13 pm » |
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I first heard Kullervo also with Berglund but in the Helsinki remake. It is very much in the mold of early Sibelius like Lemminkainen and, especially, the Wooden Nymph. I don't find it inferior to those other orchestral works.
I didn't figure at that time that the structure of Kullervo consist of the imbrication of two components. A four-movement symphony with a vocal finale and, in the middle of it, a cantata in one movement.
I think Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony suffers the same undeserved prejudice of being long-winded.
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