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Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast (London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Kajanus; Victor: 4 sides; $2.50). Incidental music to a play by Sibelius' friend Hjalmar Procopé, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Finnish Orientalism is queer, but pleasing...
Sibeliophiles may find impressive the incidental music to Belshazzar's Feast, recorded on Victor for the first time by Robert Kajanus and the London Philharmonic (M715). I find it intolerably labored and mediocre. A self-conscious stab at the sort of exotic orchestral coloring one finds in Rimsky-Korsakoff, Belshazzar's Feast purports to describe scenes at an eastern potentate's court. The first and last movements, "Oriental Procession" and "Khadra's Dance," are nothing but meaningless jumbles of sound, with no melodic interest whatsoever and very little success in evoking any imaginative picture. The middle two movements, "Night...
...years ago, when Sibelius' close friend, aged Finnish Conductor Robert Kajanus, died, another prominent Finnish conductor, Georg Schneevoigt, got a chance to rummage in Conductor Kajanus' attic in Helsinki. There he found the missing manuscripts: Lemminkäinen and the Maidens, and Lemminkäinen in Tuonela. Overjoyed, Conductor Schneevoigt got permission to perform them at Finland's 1934 Kalevala Festival. Last week, in an all-Sibelius concert by the NBC Orchestra in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Schneevoigt gave U. S. listeners their first chance to hear the Tuonelese swan's long-lost cronies...
...noted Finnish composer whose Origin of Fire, played in the U. S. for the first time early in 1938 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is (1 Werner Janssen, 2 Robert Kajanus, 3 Richard Strauss, 4 Jean Sibelius, 5 Eugene Ormandy...
From there all-Finnish repertoire the chorus will sing here works by the composers Sibelius, Genetz, Kajanus, Jarnfelt, Haapalainen, Tornudd, Pesola, Turunen, Madetoja, Maasaio, Kuula, and Palmgren...