1930 SIBELIUS Symph No 2 First Columbia Rec' Robert Kajanus London Symphony 78

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Jean Sibelius wrote that “there are none who have gone deeper and given [my symphonies] more feeling and beauty than Robert Kajanus”. The nobility and affection in this première recording of the First Symphony makes it uniquely cherished amongst Sibelius aficionados

Kajanus conducts Sibelius • Symphony No 2, Filler Karelia Suite INTERMEZZO orchestra of London’s Royal Philharmonic Society

In 1930, the Finnish government arranged for the English Columbia label to make recordings of the first two symphonies of Jean Sibelius, contributing fifty thousand marks toward the project. The goal was to broaden interest in Finnish music throughout the world; and while Sibelius was already well known owing to shorter works such as Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela and Valse Triste, his symphonies had never previously been recorded. Sibelius was invited to select a native-born interpreter to conduct the works, and had no hesitation in recommending composer/conductor Robert Kajanus (1856–1933). “Very many are the men who have conducted these symphonies during the last thirty years,” Sibelius wrote, “but there are none who have gone deeper and given them more feeling and beauty than Robert Kajanus.”

The orchestra of London’s Royal Philharmonic Society (the pre-Beecham “old RPO”) was engaged to record the first two symphonies and two movements from the Karelia Suite as fillers. Two years later, after the merger of Columbia and HMV into EMI, the latter label took up the cause with a series of “Sibelius Society” albums, the first of which featured Kajanus conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the Fifth Symphony and the two tone poems featured here. The Third Symphony and incidental music for Belshazzar’s Feast were also recorded during those sessions; but Kajanus’s death the following year put an end to his participation in the series.

VIVA TONAL 5x 12"78 rpm record , generic album

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EXCELLEnt close to pristine,rare scuffs

Plays very quiet album solid, but spine rough

Robert Kajanus (Helsinki, 2 December 1856 – Helsinki, 6 July 1933) was a Finnish conductor and composer of Swedish descent.
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  Life

Robert Kajanus was the most prominent Finnish composer before Jean Sibelius. His music drew on the folk legends of the Finnish people. He studied music theory with Richard Faltin and violin with Gustaf Niemann in Helsinki, with Hans Richter, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig, and Johan Svendsen in Paris.

He worked in Dresden in the years immediately after his graduation, and returned to Helsinki in 1882. He founded the first permanent orchestra in Finland: the Helsinki Philharmonic Society (later to become the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finland's national orchestra). He brought the orchestra to a very high performance standard very quickly, so that they were able to give quite credible performances of the standard late classical/mid-romantic repertory. Kajanus led the Helsinki Philharmonic for 50 years, and among the milestones of that history was the first performance in Finland of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in 1888.

Kajanus was appointed director of music at the University of Helsinki in 1897 and remained in the post for the next 29 years, a period in which he had a major impact on music education in his native country. He was also the founder of the Nordic Music Festival in 1919. He received many decorations, including the French Légion d'honneur.

Kajanus was the father of the harpists Lilly Kajanus-Blenner (1885-1963) and Aino Kajanus-Mangström (1888-1951) and the violinist Kaj Kajanus (1908-1994); the grandfather of Johanna Kajanus, an award-winning Finnish/Norwegian sculptress; and great-grandfather of pop musician and composer Georg Kajanus, who was famous for a while in Great Britain with his band Sailor which enjoyed chart success in the mid 1970s.
[edit] Selected works

Kajanus composed over 200 works, of which Aino and the Finnish Rhapsodies are enduringly popular. He also devised orchestral arrangements of the Finnish national anthem, Maamme (Our Country) and Christian Fredric Kress's Porilaisten marssi (March of the People of Pori), the honour march of the Suomen puolustusvoimien (Finnish Defence Forces) and thus, effectively, the Finnish presidential march.[1][2]

    Adagietto
    Aino, symphonic poem for male chorus and orchestra (1885)
    Suomalainen rapsodia (Finnish rhapsody) no. 1 in D minor, Op. 5 (1881)
    Suomalainen rapsodia (Finnish rhapsody) no. 2 in F major (1886)
    Huutolaistytön kehtolaulu (The Pauper Girl's Lament)
    Kullervon surumarssi (Kullervo's Funeral March), Op. 3 (1880); contains the folk tune "Velisurmaaja" ("The brother-slayer")
    Lyrische Stücke (1879)
    Overtura sinfonica for orchestra (1926)
    Piano Sonata (1876)
    Sechs Albumblätter (1877)
    Sotamarssi (War March), with lyrics by A. Oksanen - arr. by Arvo Kuikka as an honour march of the Suomen ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force) [3]
    Sinfonietta in B flat major for strings, Op. 16 (1915)
    Suite ancienne for strings (1931)
    Violin Sonata (1876)

[edit] Kajanus and Sibelius

Kajanus had a decisive impact upon the development of the career of Jean Sibelius. He was considered an authority on the interpretation of Sibelius's music, and he and Sibelius were close friends; this was compromised in 1898 when Sibelius was appointed to a university post for which Kajanus was himself a candidate. Kajanus appealed and the decision was overturned. However they reconciled for the orchestra's tour of Europe in 1900, where they appeared at the Exposition Universelle at the invitation of the French government. Kullervo, Sibelius's epic masterpiece, was written in the wake of Kajanus' symphonic poem Aino. Additionally, as a conductor, Kajanus was responsible for commissioning one of Sibelius' most popular and enduring works, En Saga, following the success of Kullervo. Pohjola's Daughter was dedicated to Kajanus. When Kajanus took the Helsinki Orchestra on a tour of Europe in 1900, both he and Sibelius served as conductors, in what proved to be the first performances of Sibelius's music outside of Finland. This ensured the spread of the young composer's reputation far beyond the borders of his homeland, the first Finnish composer to receive such attention.

Kajanus was the first to make recordings of Sibelius's First, Second, Third and Fifth symphonies. They were recorded in the early 1930s, with the London Symphony Orchestra. The relationship between Kajanus and Sibelius was such that his interpretations of the composer's music are usually regarded as being extraordinarily close to Sibelius's own wishes.[citation needed]

In 1930, the Finnish government and Britain's EMI-Columbia label, perceiving a potentially wide audience for the composer's work, contrived to secure recordings of Sibelius's first two symphonies, and Kajanus was selected to record both at the insistence of the composer. In 1932, Kajanus recorded Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5, along with several of the orchestral suites and tone poems. Apart from being the most massive recording project ever attempted around the work of a living composer, these recordings were considered definitive for many years, and are still regarded as necessary listening for serious fans of Sibelius. Only his death in July 1933, at the age of 76, prevented Kajanus from recording the composer's complete extant works.

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