Tip-off: Sibelius 8 fragments to receive public premiere in Manchester
mainI hear that the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is first in line to perform the newly-discovered fragments of Sibelius’s missing eighth symphony in front of a live audience.
The score sheets have so far been played only in a video run-through at a Helsinki Philharmonic rehearsal session. But the Hel Phil’s chief conductor John Storgards is planning a Sibelius cycle in Manchester – and want it to be more complete than any before. The cycle will also be released on record.
Here we go !!!!!!!!! now all the hacks have entered the picture – anything for publicity !!!!!!!!!!
This news is profoundly moving – rarely do I shed tears about a musical story but to know some fragments did survive Sibelius’ utter loss of self-confidence in old age gets through one’s defences!. His music is as much a part of me of blood and bone, and the destruction of the 8th is as great a cultural loss to us as can be imagined – up there with the destruction of Liege’s cathedral and Cluny Abbey. I send my deep gratitude to all concerned.