Word: tuonela
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...