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Finnish singer and opera singer
- baritone
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- Grand Principality of Finland
- opera singer
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Sibelius Kullervo - Bournemouth SO, Berglund
[…] movements constitute a set of related but independent tone poems. The third and fifth movements make use of a men's chorus. The third, authorized by the composer for performance as an independent work, also calls for two soloists, a baritone and a mezzo-soprano. Based on the character of Kullervo in the epic poem Kalevala and using texts from that poem, the work premiered to critical acclaim on 28 April 1892 with Emmy Achté and Abraham Ojanperä as soloists and the composer conducting the chorus and orchestra of the Helsinki Orchestra Society, which was founded in that year.Kullervo had only four more performances in Sibelius's lifetime, the last on 12 March 1893. Sibelius refused to publish it until, in 1957 at the very end of his life, after he had re-orchestrated the final "lament" section of the third movement, he gave permission for it to be published after his death.[2]Though the […]
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