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Review: These performances sound natural. Maazel has a direct, objective manner in Sibelius and the natural, open sounding recording of the Pittsburgh Orchestra is suited to the music.
Sibelius's symphonies aren't `theological' (like Bruckner's and, in a different way Mahler's too). These landscapes are unpopulated, often inhospitable, bleak and cold. There are moments when the broad land, sea and skyscapes open out into music that seems to belong to the transcendent vastnesses of deep-space (especially in the 4th and 7th Symphony). Maazel's objective and patient approach is ideally suited to these enigmatic and inscrutable works. It communicates a raw, physical energy. It also seems to hold at its core a stillness; a still, silent centre around which musical planets move and coalesce.
There is a cogency about this cycle, a seamless consistency; widely varied scenes viewed from the same vantage-point.
The excellent performance of the Violin Concerto is a treasure! The soloist, Julian Rachlin, plays with breadth; a fluent, rhapsodic freedom and a wonderful vitality and bite. The recorded balance is ideal, the solo violin superbly `present' but not unnaturally forward.
The Pittsburgh Orchestra may lack velvety plushness - but that is no disadvantage in a Sibelian soundscape. They have the advantage of dark, articulate lower strings, delightfully grainy bassoons, trombones as black as a pine forest and brilliant, blazing horns. The simple microphone techniques used project the orchestra with honesty and impact. Climaxes are huge and heavy and detail well-focused.

CD1
Symphony No. 1 In E Min, Op 39
Symphony No. 7 In C Maj, Op 105
CD2
Symphony No.2 In D Major, Op.43
Symphony no.6 In D Minor, Op.104
CD3
Symphony No. 3 In C Major, Op. 52
The Swan Of Tuonela, Op. 22 No. 3
Karelia Suite, Op. 11
Valse Triste, Op. 44 No. 1
Finlandia, Op. 26
CD4
Symph 4 In A Min, Op 63
Symphony 5 In E - Flat Maj, Op 82
CD5
Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In D Minor, 0p.47
Serenade For Violin And ORchestra In G Minor, Op. 69 No. 2
En Saga, Op.9
Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
Julian Rachlin, Violin

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