Absolute Masters is a special podcast series from Wise Music Group exploring the lives and work of great composers past and present. Presented by Wise Music Group Creative Director Gill Graham in conversation with among others culture consultant and musician Susanna Eastburn and award winning journalist, author and broadcaster Stephen Johnson.
https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/
https://stephen-johnson.co.uk/
Opening / closing theme: Symphony No. 5, Op. 82: Allegro Molto (Extract) composed by Jean Sibelius and performed by Filharmonie Brno
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Absolute Masters is a special podcast series from Wise Music Group exploring the lives and work of great composers past and present. Presented by Wise Music Group Creative Director Gill Graham in conversation with among others culture consultant and musician Susanna Eastburn and award winning journalist, author and broadcaster Stephen Johnson.
https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/
https://stephen-johnson.co.uk/
Opening / closing theme: Symphony No. 5, Op. 82: Allegro Molto (Extract) composed by Jean Sibelius and performed by Filharmonie Brno
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Welcome to the second part of our exploration of the life and music of Jean Sibelius, presented by Wise Music Group Creative Director Gill Graham and award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Stephen Johnson. Featuring excerpts of the great Finnish composer’s work, the conversation explores:
- how - and why - he stopped writing
- the music he composed for theatrical productions including the first Danish staging of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- how he designed his symphonies and tone poems to be interpreted in different ways
- Lemminkäinen Suite’s delicate, masterful balance as half- symphony, half- tone poem
- the unique way in which Sibelius’ symphonic palette was able to evoke nature in all its magnificence and subtlety
Musical Excerpts:
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