Sibelius Symphony No. 5
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Mysticism of Nature and the Agony of Life
The fast iversion has an incredible flow. You can almost imagine the horne notes as the slow beating of wingsof the swans. We have the mysticism of nature and the agony of life all wrapped into one. Here, as the music explodes into an ecstatic c majorlet's move on for a moment too. The slower version gives you that, but it also grounds the music, making it more earthly rather than heavenly.
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