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Sibelius: Piano Music / Eero Heinonen
Piano Classics

Sibelius: Piano Music / Eero Heinonen

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Composer
SIBELIUS, JEAN
Artist
Eero Heinonen
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Jan 01, 2021
Catalog #
PCL10220
UPC
5029365102209

About

Eero Heinonen has long been a champion of the composer’s neglected output for piano. With this recording he continues to make the case for music that does not easily give up its secrets but, in the right hands, sings with Sibelius’s unique voice. Sibelius was not himself an accomplished pianist, but he wrote for the instrument – at which he composed – throughout his career, and maintained that, while often overlooked, its time would come. In recent years his prophecy has come true, especially with the Op.75 suite of five pieces which he composed in 1914 and titled ‘The Trees’. They move from a Tchaikovskian melancholy common to much of his earlier piano output, through impressionist studies of light and darkness, to the kind of sombre, dissonant harmonies in the final piece (‘The Spruce’) which call to mind orchestral masterpieces such as En Saga and Tapiola. Rather than cherry-picking from a considerable output, Eero Heinonen has chosen to present four complete opus numbers which nevertheless encapsulate the range of Sibelius’s piano writing. In the Six Impromptus Op.5 of 1890-93 he successfully integrates elements of Finnish folk music within the idiom of fantasy inherited from Schubert and Chopin. The 10 Pieces Op.24 were written between 1895 and 1903 – formative years for the composer, in which he moved away from his German-influenced training and discovered for himself a more distinctively Finnish voice, but in this context still within the genre of salon pieces. These are the works most directly comparable with Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. Then, before the Op.75 masterpieces, he wrote a trio of Sonatinas Op.67 in 1912, around the same time as the troubled Fourth Symphony. The first of them, as played here by Eero Heinonen, shares some of the symphony’s austere idiom and introvert nature.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1 in G Minor 02:29
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 in G Minor
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  2. 2 No. 2 in G Minor 01:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2 in G Minor
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  3. 3 No. 3 in A Minor 02:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3 in A Minor
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  4. 4 No. 4 in E Minor 02:17
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4 in E Minor
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  5. 5 No. 5 in B Minor 03:17
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5 in B Minor
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  6. 6 No. 6 in E Major 02:49
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6 in E Major
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  7. 7 I. Allegro 02:33
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  8. 8 II. Largo 03:07
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  9. 9 III. Allegro moderato 01:36
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  10. 10 No. 1. Nar ronnen blommar (When the Rowan Blossoms) 01:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 1. Nar ronnen blommar (When the Rowan Blossoms)
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  11. 11 No. 2. Den ensamma furan (The Lonely Fir) 02:37
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. Den ensamma furan (The Lonely Fir)
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  12. 12 No. 3. Aspen (The Aspen) 02:20
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. Aspen (The Aspen)
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  13. 13 No. 4. Bjorken (The Birch Tree) 01:39
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. Bjorken (The Birch Tree)
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  14. 14 No. 5. Granen (The Spruce) 04:40
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 5. Granen (The Spruce)
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  15. 15 No. 1. Impromptu 04:07
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 1. Impromptu
    Duration
    04:07
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  16. 16 No. 2. Romance 06:01
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 2. Romance
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  17. 17 No. 3. Caprice 02:49
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 3. Caprice
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  18. 18 No. 4. Romance 03:21
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 4. Romance
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  19. 19 No. 5. Valse 02:01
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 5. Valse
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  20. 20 No. 6. Idylle 03:14
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 6. Idylle
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  21. 21 No. 7. Andantino 02:55
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 7. Andantino
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  22. 22 No. 8. Nocturno 03:27
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 8. Nocturno
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  23. 23 No. 9. Romance 03:42
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 9. Romance
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen
  24. 24 No. 10. Barcarola 04:38
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 10. Barcarola
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Eero Heinonen