Pan and Echo
| Pan and Echo | |
|---|---|
| Dance intermezzo by Jean Sibelius | |
 The composer (c. 1905) | |
| Native name | Pan och Echo |
| Opus | 53 |
| Composed | 1906 |
| Publisher | Lienau (1907)[1] |
| Duration | 4.5 mins.[1] |
| Premiere | |
| Date | 24 March 1906[1] |
| Location | Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland |
| Conductor | Jean Sibelius |
| Performers | Helsinki Philharmonic Society |
Pan and Echo (in Swedish Pan och Echo; in Finnish: Pan ja Kaiku; subtitled "Dance intermezzo No. 3"),[1] Op. 53,[a] is tableau music for orchestra written in early 1906 by the Finnish composer by Jean Sibelius. The piece premiered in Helsinki on 24 March 1906, with Sibelius conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Society; the venue was the original location of the Hotelli Seurahuone (Helsinki City Hall since 1913).[2][1]
Though brief, Pan and Echo is, according to Sibelius's biographer Andrew Barnett, "poetic, full of feeling, and scored with great sensitivity".[2]
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Instrumentation
[edit]Pan and Echo is scored for the following instruments,[1] organized by family (woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings):
- 2 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in B♭), and 2 bassoons
- 4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in F), and 3 trombones
- Timpani, bass drum, cymbals, and triangle
- Violins (I and II), violas, cellos, and double basses
Discography
[edit]The Finnish conductor Martti Similä and the Finlandia Orchestra made the world premiere studio recording of Pan and Echo c. 1956 for Fennica.[1] The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings:
| No. | Conductor | Ensemble | Rec.[b] | Time | Recording venue | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martti Similä | Finlandia Orchestra | c. 1956 | ? | ? | Fennica | |
| 2 | Sir Charles Groves | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | 1975 | 4:27 | Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool | EMI Classics | |
| 3 | Neemi Järvi | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | 1986 | 4:33 | Gothenburg Concert Hall | BIS | |
| 4 | Stanislav Gorkovenko | Saint Petersburg Radio and TV Orchestra | ? | 4:21 | ? | Elap | |
| 5 | Shuntaro Sato | Kuopio Symphony Orchestra | 2002 | 4:29 | Kuopio Music Centre | Finlandia | |
| 6 | Osmo Vänskä | Lahti Symphony Orchestra | 2004 | 4:07 | Sibelius Hall | BIS | |
| 7 | Pietari Inkinen | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | 2007 | 4:51 | Michael Fowler Centre | Naxos |
Notes, references, and sources
[edit]- Notes
- ^ Pan and Echo was published as Sibelius's Op. 53a. However, no work in his oeuvre retains the 'Op. 53b' designation.
- ^ Refers to the year in which the performers recorded the work; this may not be the same as the year in which the recording was first released to the general public.
- ^ [ M. Similä–Fennica (SS 1) 1968]
- ^ C. Groves–EMI Classics (85532) 2004
- ^ N. Järvi–BIS (CD–359) 1987
- ^ S. Gorkovenko–Elap (44183CD) 1998
- ^ S. Sato–Finlandia (0927–49598–2) 2003
- ^ O. Vänskä–BIS (CD–1565) 2006
- ^ P. Inkinen–Naxos (8.570763) 2008
- References
- Sources
- Barnett, Andrew (2007). Sibelius. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11159-0.
- Dahlström, Fabian [in Swedish] (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke [Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 3-7651-0333-0.
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