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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Tubin: Symphony No. 5.(Brief Article)

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Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Telarc CD-80585.

For Jarvi's second Telarc recording with his new orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, he chose a pair of Scandinavian favorites, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's Second Symphony and Jarvi's fellow Estonian Eduard Tubin's Fifth Symphony. It is an appropriate pairing that should please a lot of listeners.

For me, I found the Sibelius a touch prosaic compared to the recorded performances of people like Colin Davis (Philips, RCA), John Barbirolli (Chesky, EMI), Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca), and Herbert von Karajan (EMI). Jarvi certainly presents the Second Symphony in a vigorous manner, with proper attention to the atmospheric beginning, but it never seems to soar the way the others do, especially not in the finale, which ...

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