SKU: BR.SON-607
Kullervo op. 7 (3
Teilbande). Composed
by Jean Sibelius. Edited
by Glenda D. Goss. Linen.
Complete Works.
Late-romantic; Early
modern. Complete Works.
536 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #SON 607.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.SON-607).
ISBN 9790004802632. 10
x 12.5 inches.
No
longer just a facsimile:
Sibelius's Symphony No. 0
in a proper edition With
the world premiere of
Kullervo in 1892, Jean
Sibelius staked his claim
at the age of 27 to the
front ranks of the
symphonists of his day,
long before he began
writing his purely
instrumental symphonies
and tone poems. At the
same time, he defined
himself as a modern-day
Finnish composer through
his choice of the text
from the Kalevala epic,
whose title role he
interpreted with modern
psychological means. By
the time Sibelius was
celebrating his major
international triumphs in
the early 20th century,
his Symphony No. 0 was
long forgotten. After a
provisory first edition
of Kullervo in 1966, the
work quickly gained the
esteem of Sibelius
conductors who also
performed the work with
the Finnish vocal text
outside of their native
country. Yet in spite of
pioneer recordings such
as those of Paavo
Berglund, Colin Davis,
Jukka-Pekka Saraste,
Esa-Pekka Salonen and
Osmo Vanska, the
grandiose work had not
been adequately present
in international concert
life up to now not least
because there was no
practicable edition. The
volumes of the Complete
Edition edited by Glenda
Dawn Goss now offer a
musicologically accurate
music text for the first
time. This music text
will form the basis for
the projected performance
material. The complete
edition Jean Sibelius
Werke intends to pave the
way for a new evaluation
of the Finnish composer
and, in particular, of
this hitherto editorially
neglected work, the
composer's only choral
symphony.
Sid Kuller
