We’ve been playing Karelia all wrong, say Finns
NewsThe conductor Tuomas Hannikainen has discovered that the published scores of Sibelius’ Karelia Overture, Op. 10 and the Karelia Suite, Op. 11 are based on the 1893 manuscripts, even though the composer revised and extended them a year later.
Somehow the 1894 revisions have been languishing all these years in the YLE radio archives. The 1894 manuscripts, which Hannikainen says ‘solves all the problems’, will be premiered at an extra Helsinki Festival concert on August 26.
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