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Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Borodin's overture to Prince Igor, Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony...
...much more purified, without loss of strength, are the themes of the sixth compared to those of the earlier symphony. Saturday night, again, Toscanini is doing (in addition to the Second Symphony) two of Sibelius's better known tone-poems, Pohjola's Daughter and The Swan of Tuonela. This is a chance to hear two shorter masterpieces, each impressive, but in entirely different ways: The Swan being a quiet, meditative mood-piece with little excitement, and Pohjola's Daughter being a volcanic orchestration of an old Scandinavian myth...
Aside from his Valse Triste and his ringing tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius' most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela was originally part of a suite of four tone-poems illustrating the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, on which U. S. word-poet Longfellow modeled his Hiawatha. Of this suite only The Swan of Tuonela, and another, noisier fragment called Lemminkäinen's Homecoming have been published and performed. The manuscripts of the other two fragments were lost...
...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...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) opens its ninth radio season with Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz Overture, Jean Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, The Return of Lemmin-käinen, Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky's suite from The Fire Bird, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for Strings, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting...