Nightride and Sunrise
Nightride and Sunrise | |
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Tone poem by Jean Sibelius | |
The composer (c. 1913) | |
Native name | Öinen ratsastus ja auringonnousu |
Opus | 55 |
Composed | 1908 (1908) |
Publisher | Lienau (1909)[1] |
Duration | 20 mins.[1] |
Premiere | |
Date | 23 January 1909 (1909-01-23)[1] |
Location | Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Conductor | Alexander Siloti |
Performers | ? |
Nightride and Sunrise (in Finnish: Öinen ratsastus ja auringonnousu; in German: Nächtlicher Ritt und Sonnenaufgang),[1] Op. 55, is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written in 1908 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
Orchestration
Sibelius scored the work for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns (doubled if possible in the Sunrise), 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, tambourine, triangle and strings.
Background
Sibelius gave different accounts of the inspiration for this music. One, told to Karl Ekman, was that it was inspired by his first visit to the Colosseum in Rome, in 1901. Another account, given in his later years to his secretary Santeri Levas, was that the inspiration was a sleigh ride from Helsinki to Kerava "at some time around the turn of the century", during which he saw a striking sunrise.[2]
Sibelius completed the score by November 1908 and sent the manuscript to Alexander Siloti, who conducted the first performance, in Saint Petersburg, in 1909. The reviews of the first performance were unfavorable, except for one in Novy Russ, and one reviewer called Siloti's conducting "slack and monotonous". A writer for Novoye Vremya asked, "Who is actually riding, and why?" Siloti had made cuts to the score.[3]
The work represents a subjective, spiritual experience of nature by "an ordinary man." It unfolds in three contrasting parts: a galloping section whose length and dogged determination produce one of Sibelius's strangest utterances; a brief hymnic transition in the strings; and an exquisite Northern sunrise whose first rays emerge in the horns.
A typical performance takes about fourteen minutes.
Discography
The British conductor Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra made the world premiere studio recording of Nightride and Sunrise in 1936 for His Masters Voice (released in 2015 by Warner Classics).[1] The sortable table below contains this and other commercially available recordings:
Notes, references, and sources
- Notes
- ^ Refers to the year in which the performers recorded the work; this may not be the same as the year in which the recording was first released to the general public.
- ^ A. Boult–Warner Classics (0825646053179) 2015
- ^ A. Collins–Beulah (3PD8) 1994
- ^ E. Jochum–DG (449 718–2) 1996
- ^ A. Boult–Somm (SOMMCD 093) 2009
- ^ G. Prêtre–RCA Red Seal (88985475672) 2017
- ^ A. Doráti–EMI Classics (7243 5 85785 2 2) 2007
- ^ H. Stein–Decca (482 3922) 2015
- ^ A. Gibson–Chandos (CHAN 241–19) 2004
- ^ S. Rattle–EMI (0825646198788) 2015
- ^ K. Sanderling–Brilliant Classics (6328/5) 2002
- ^ N. Järvi–BIS (CD–311) 1986
- ^ J. Saraste–RCA Red Seal (194397048124) 2020
- ^ V. Sinaisky–Brilliant Classics (BC9212) 2010
- ^ N. Järvi–DG (453 426–2) 1997
- ^ P. Järvi–Virgin Classics (243 5 45213 2 4) 1996
- ^ L. Segerstam–Ondine (ODE 914–2) 1998
- ^ C. Davis–RCA Red Seal (09026–68770–2) 1999
- ^ J. Saraste–Finlandia (3984–27890–2) 2000
- ^ O. Vänskä–BIS (CD–1225) 2002
- ^ P. Inkinen–Naxos (8.570763) 2008
- References
- ^ a b c d e Dahlström 2003, p. 256.
- ^ Tawaststjerna 1986, pp. 100–101.
- ^ Tawaststjerna 1986, p. 96-97.
- Sources
- Dahlström, Fabian [in Swedish] (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke [Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 3-7651-0333-0.
- Tawaststjerna, Erik W. (1986). Sibelius, Volume II: 1904–1914. Translated by Robert Layton. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0571247738.
External links
- Night Ride and Sunrise (Öinen ratsastus ja auringonnousu), Op. 55: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- On-line biography of Jean Sibelius, "Inner voices 1908-1914".
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