Sibelius: Finlandia, Karelia Suite
I got this for £4.99 just over six years ago, and I think I was looking for a piece I had on tape (probably home taped from a record I borrowed from Woking record library) when I was about 15 or 16. I thought the piece might be Karelia or The Swan of Tuonela, but listening to these recordings I don't think they have the brooding crepuscular aura of the piece I was looking for. I wonder if it might have been one of Sibelius's other tone poems — Tapiola or En Saga — instead. This afternoon I ordered another £4.99 CD of the tone poems from Amazon to find out. [Update, 28 February: yes, I think it was Tapiola I was looking for.]
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