Search - Jean Sibelius, Leif Segerstam, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra :: Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 Op. 104 / Pohjola's Daughter Op. 49 / En Saga Op. 9

These are three of Sibelius's more famous works, and taken together they range over his entire life, from En Saga of 1893 to the Sixth Symphony of 1923. Sibelius is, of course, Finland's greatest composer, and what he managed to do was capture both the climate of Finland as well as its cultural heritage from all sorts of folk-music sources. En Saga draws--as does so much of Sibelius's music--from the Finnish epic The Kalevala. You can hear the young composer stretching his wings in it. By the time he gets around to Pohjola's Daughter (1906), he is in full mastery of his powers. --Paul Cook