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	Tuonela Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tuonela is the realm of the dead or the Underworld in Finnish mythology, similar to Hades in Greek mythology.
		Tuonela is best known for its appearance in the Finnish national epic Kalevala.
		Tuonela is used as the translation for the Greece word ᾍδης in Finnish translations of the Bible.
	www.bookrags.com /Tuonela (1292 words)

	Swan of Tuonela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Swan of Tuonela (Tuonelan joutsen) is an 1895 tone poem by the Finland-Swedish composer Jean Sibelius.
		Lemminkäinen, the hero of the epic, has been tasked with killing the sacred swan, but on the way he is shot with a poisoned arrow, and dies himself.
		The Swan of Tuonela is the second of the four sections of the Lemminkäinen Suite (Lemminkäïs-sarja), also known as the Four Legends from the Kalevala, op.22, which was premiered in 1896.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swan_of_Tuonela (230 words)

	October 1
		Two of the movements, "The Swan of Tuonela" and "Lemminkäinen's Return," became part of the concert repertoire almost immediately; the other two, however, were withheld for many years.
		To win her hand, he was sent to Tuonela, the underworld, by the girl's mother, the sorceress Louhi, with the assignment to shoot the Swan of Tuonela using a single arrow.
		The third movement is the famous "Swan of Tuonela." The slow motion of the swan, floating in the river of death, is represented by a long, sorrowful English horn solo.
	www.clevelandorch.com /images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/100104.html (2324 words)

	Symphonic Poem, "The Swan of Tuonela" - Sibelius
		The "Swan of Tounela" is the third part of the symphonic poem "Lemminkäinen" which is rarely played in its entirety.
		The score inscription sets forth "Tuonela, the Kingdom of Death, the Hades of Finnish mythology, is surrounded by a broad river of fl water and rapid current, in which the Swan of Tuonela glides in majestic fashion and sings." Rosa Newmarch in her biography of the composer has sufficiently described the composition:
		To this accompaniment, which suggests the faint flapping of pinions, the swan's final phrases are sung.
	www.musicwithease.com /sibelius-swan-tuonela.html (265 words)

	Barbirolli Society CDs Page 10 - CDSJB1018 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The finale’s great theme for horns, rising and falling majestically, was inspired by a flock of swans which circled the composer’s home before disappearing into the sun’s haze.
		The Swan of Tuonela began as an overture to an opera which Sibelius abandoned, but he used it as the second of the four movements of the Lemminkäinen suite.
		Tuonela is the Finnish Hades on which the fl swan glides, singing as it goes back and forth.
	www.st-and.demon.co.uk /JBSoc/page10/page10.html (1470 words)

	Lemminkäinen
		During the 1890s Lemminkäinen in Tuonela was played as the second movement of the suite, but later Sibelius decided to replace it with The Swan of Tuonela.
		The Swan of Tuonela is a splendid example of dark orchestration and of Sibelius's way of substituting for the pedal of the piano by means of skilful orchestration.
		The Swan of Tuonela can be seen to prefigure composers such as György Ligeti, Arvo Pärt and Kaija Saariaho who use static means to create their musical material.
	www.sibelius.fi /english/musiikki/ork_lemminkainen.htm (2529 words)

	Review: Leopold Stokowski Conducts Sibelius
		The Swan of Tuonela, (From "The Four Legends of the Kalevala,"
		Stokowski's version of Swan of Tuonela is sumptuous, and lighter than air from Robert Bloom's cor Anglaise.
		It is as wistful a Swan as Barbirolli's.
	home.flash.net /~park29/stokowski2.htm (1758 words)

	PRX » Pieces » RN Documentary: The Winged Muse
		In early spring we watched a large flock of Bewick swans fattening up for their annual trek to the far north on the moist, high-protein grass of the polders in the center of the Netherlands.
		There are six other species of swans in the world: the fl swans of the southern hemisphere, the trumpeter and tundra or whistling swans native to North America, and everywhere, of course, the regal, mysterious fl-knobbed mute swan.
		Zeus took the shape of a swan to seduce Leda, Buddha saved the life of a swan, Parsifal killed one, and in Finnish legend the Swan of Tuonela guards the kingdom of death.
	www.prx.org /pieces/2277/stationinfo (1395 words)

	Sibelius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first notes of the swinging theme, D E-F#, invert the oboe's opening phrase in the first movement, and it is this triumphant theme that survives vast plains of hypnotic musings before reaching its victorious destination.
		'Tuonela, land of death, the hell of Finnish mythology, is surrounded by a wide river with fl water and a fast current upon which the Swan of Tuonela floats majestically, singing'.
		With enormous restraint, Sibelius excludes flutes, clarinets and trumpets, floating the swan's eerie cor anglais song upon a dark surface of divided strings.
	www.pluto.no /OFO/CD/Sibelius_No2.html (954 words)

	Swan Songs
		This hour is devoted to "Swan Songs." Swan Lake certainly qualifies, especially the "Dance of the Swans" from Act II, which you heard as part of this suite.
		Instead, it paints a picture of the land of the dead, surrounded by a large river with fl waters and a rapid current, on which the Swan of Tuonela glides majestically.
		FLAXMAN: The Swan of Tuonela by Jean Sibelius.
	www.compactdiscoveries.com /CompactDiscoveriesScripts/41SwanSongs.html (926 words)

	Guardian \| CBSO/Oramo
		The Swan of Tuonela, with its long-limbed cor anglais solo unfolded over dark-hued strings, is one of Sibelius's most popular pieces, but it is rarely heard in the context that the composer intended, as the third of the Lemminkainen Legends he wrote in the mid-1890s.
		Towards the end of his life, Sibelius referred to the four pieces as a symphony, and that is how the set emerged in Sakari Oramo's performance with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, as a tonally and thematically integrated piece of musical architecture.
		In the symphonic scheme the demonic second movement, which depicts the hero Lemminkainen's trip to the underworld (where he has been sent by Pohjola's daughter, though that is another story and another, later Sibelius tone poem), is the Scherzo, and The Swan of Tuonela functions as the slow movement.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4633408-108884,00.html (298 words)

	Finlandia Swan Flight Estonian-Finnish Symphony Orchestra Anu Tali
		After the score and parts were missing for many years they were located in the spring of 2000 and the modern premiere was on June 2, 2001 (one day prior to this recording) at the Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn, Estonia as performed by the Estonian-Finnish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anu Tali.
		The opera Swan Flight (Estonian: Luigelend) was premiered on April 20, 1966 at the Vanemuine Theatre in Tartu, Estonia by the Vanemuine Opera and Orchestra conducted by Erich Kõlar.
		There are no texts provided for the vocal portions of Swan Flight as the Ellerhein Girls Choir are singing a wordless vocalise which is meant to evoke the calling of swans.
	www3.sympatico.ca /alan.teder/Finlandia8573-89876-2.htm (457 words)

	DANCE VIEW; SIBELIUS'S 'SWAN' INSPIRES A NEW BALLET - New York Times
		Once one of the most acclaimed of 20th-century composers, Sibelius has been somewhat neglected of late, possibly in reaction to the inflated claims of those adulators who pronounced him the man who would save music from what they considered to be the dangerous modernism of Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
		The scenario also involved a magic talisman and told how the Swan of Tuonela, created by a benign deity as a peaceful messenger of death, was corrupted by Tuoni into becoming a vicious destructive force.
		It is quite a plot and there are a few times when the action is obscure, particularly in the prologue, a battle scene all sound and fury that signifies nothing whereas, given its importance to the development of the story, it ought to signify quite a lot.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2D91038F935A1575AC0A964948260 (542 words)

	Sound Dynamics Beinum / Ormandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first were Finlandia, Lemminkäinen's Return and Swan of Tuonela for RCA in 1940, followed the next year by Symphony No. 1.
		He recorded all of the symphonies except the third and sixth, as a number of symphonic poems, and three recordings of the violin concerto, one with David Oistakh in 1959, one with Isaac Stern in 1969 and the third in 1980 with Dylana Jenson.
		The familiar Swan of Tuonela is exquisitely crafted; the other three Lemminkäinen legends played with virtuosity marked by a forward pulse exhilarating to hear.
	classicalcdreview.com /sdeo.html (276 words)

	INKPOT#95/37 CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURE: SIBELIUS The Fifth Symphony - Recordings Survey
		The buildups to climaxes are marvellous, for example the first awakening of the first movement, or the ending - listen to the orchestra drive those final bars, line upon line, section for section - Rattle impressively highlights the score's powerful structures.
		The horns of the Swan Hymn are mellow and round, the whole beautifully flowing.
		Listen to how Berglund finally allows the orchestra to surge in volume at the C major climax - the horns play louder not merely for the sake of the climax as emotion, but because it is an architectural climax, a structural perigee in the score.
	inkpot.com /classical/sibsym5r.html (1462 words)

	Jean SIBELIUS Lemminkainen Suite Op22:: Classical CD Reviews - Sept 1999. Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is a piece of premonition; there is an underlying malevolence, a disturbing evil lurking in the rolling bass drum and the low harp which turns it into a spectral beauty.
		It was at this time that the symbolist art of Böcklin and Enckell was in fashion with their images of swans, water and death (Böcklin's Insel der Toten was the inspiration for Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead and surely for the Swan of Tuonela as well).
		In order to win the hand of the daughter of the Northland, Lemminkäinen has been set the task of killing the Swan of Tuonela but is himself ambushed and killed by the son of the Lord of Tuonela who cut his corpse into eight pieces and threw them into the Tuonela river.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/sept99/lemminkainen.htm (1776 words)

	Jean SIBELIUS Lemminkainen Suite Op22:: Classical CD Reviews - Sept 1999. Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is a piece of premonition; there is an underlying malevolence, a disturbing evil lurking in the rolling bass drum and the low harp which turns it into a spectral beauty.
		It was at this time that the symbolist art of Böcklin and Enckell was in fashion with their images of swans, water and death (Böcklin's Insel der Toten was the inspiration for Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead and surely for the Swan of Tuonela as well).
		In order to win the hand of the daughter of the Northland, Lemminkäinen has been set the task of killing the Swan of Tuonela but is himself ambushed and killed by the son of the Lord of Tuonela who cut his corpse into eight pieces and threw them into the Tuonela river.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/sept99/lemminkainen.htm (1776 words)

	ipedia.com: Jean Sibelius Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		His family consciously decided to send Jean to an important Finnish language school there, and thus join the Fennoman movement, an expression of Romantic Nationalism which was to become a crucial part of Sibelius' artistic output and politics.
		His most famous compositions are probably Finlandia, Valse Triste, the violin concerto, the Karelia suite and The swan of Tuonela (a movement from his Lemminkäinen suite), but he wrote much else besides, including other pieces inspired by the Kalevala, seven numbered symphonies, a hundred arias, and masonic ritual music.
		Jean Sibelius was part of a wave of composers who accepted the norms of late 19th century composition, but sought to radically simplify the internal construction of the music.
	www.ipedia.com /jean_sibelius.html (837 words)

	New York Philharmonic: Gil Shaham
		I now grasp those Finnish, purely Finnish tendencies in music less realistically but more truthfully than before,” wrote Sibelius to his wife some years prior to completing The Swan of Tuonela.
		Deeply immersed in the culture of his native land he sought a musical style to evoke the moods, landscapes and legends of Finland.
		Tuonela is the Island of the Dead and around it flows a fl river, upon which a swan glides serenely, majestically.
	www.newyorkphilharmonic.org /attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=563&seasonNum=4 (622 words)

	Gramophone - Gramofile - The world's best classical music magazine
		22 - No. 2, The Swan of Tuonela (1893 rev 1897 & 1900) Tapiola,Op.
		Deutsche Grammophon has offered Karajan's performances of these four works before, drawn from various fill-ups recorded in the 1960s (SLPM139016, 3/68—nla), but these are new digital recordings.
		The present issue is Karajan's third account of ''The swan of Tuonela'' and I only regret that he has never committed to disc the four
	www.gramophone.co.uk /gramofilereview.asp?reviewID=8410042&mediaID=21933 (443 words)

	Havering Concert Orchestra - Previous Performance: 05/12/1999
		A well-known example is his tone poem The Swan of Tuonela.
		The music gives a sombre portrayal of the land of the dead in Finnish mythology which (in the words of a note on the score) "is surrounded by a large river with fl waters and a rapid current on which the Swan of Tuonela glides majestically, singing".
		Much divided strings represent the river and a solo cor anglais, the Swan itself.
	website.lineone.net /~hcoweb/pastperf/p05121999.html (524 words)

	Cala Records - Detail Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Swan of Tuonela from Four Lemminkainen Legends
		From December 1947 come several recordings made by Stokowski and a specially constituted recording ensemble, notable not only for the high calibre of the playing but also for the breadth of repertoire that they recorded under the direction of the conductor.
		Liszt's Les Preludes is given the full Stokowski treatment, Sibelius's Swan of Tuonela glides voluptuously by, and a 50-minute selection from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty shows the indefatigable Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra at their brilliant and most vivacious best.
	www.calarecords.com /detail.asp?ID=79 (845 words)

	Classical Net Review - Sibelius - Lemminkäinen Suite
		Sibelius composed this music between 1895 and 1896, with the exception of The Swan of Tuonela, which he composed in 1893.
		The Swan of Tuonela and Lemminkäinen's Homeward Journey were revised one last time in 1900, and Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island (also known as Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of Saari) and Lemminkäinen in Tuonela were revised in 1939 to produce the versions that we know today.
		Resuscitating earlier versions of this music may seems a bit like grave-robbing, but the ideas that Sibelius subsequently rejected or revised are worth hearing.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/b/bis01015a.html (581 words)

	Now CSO audience knows rest of 'Kalevala' story
		For his CSO debut Thursday night, Finnish conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste's repertoire included Sibelius' Four Legends from the "Kalevala,'' a set of tone poems inspired by Finland's national epic.
		One of the pieces, "The Swan of Tuonela,'' is a concert-hall staple, but it's a safe bet that very few American music lovers know the story of the "Kalevala'' and its handsome, headstrong hero, Lemminkainen.
		Grover Schiltz, the CSO's veteran English horn, retired earlier this year, so Robert Walters of the Cleveland Orchestra appeared as guest English horn soloist in the majestic "The Swan of Tuonela.'' His tone was luscious, ranging eloquently from weighty darkness to airy, celestial light.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/cst-ftr-cso19.html (666 words)

	Baltimore Symphony Musicians
		The Swan of Tuonela is a lyric piece for solo english horn and orchestra based on Finnish mythology, played by BSO english hornist Jane Marvine.
		Based on legend of a Swan swimming the lake around the isle of the dead, the music describes the fate of the Swan singing her soulful and haunting song.
		The solo English horn is perfect as the character of the Swan.
	www.bsomusicians.org /html/content.php?id=37 (1995 words)

	Kalevala - The Finnish National Epic — Virtual Finland
		Lemminkäinen asks Louhi for her daughter, but Louhi demands that he first hunt and kill the Demon's elk, then the Demon's fire-breathing gelding, and finally the swan in Tuonela River, which is the boundary between this world and the next.
		She rakes the pieces of her son's body out of Tuonela River, puts them back together and brings her son back to life.
		Väinämöinen sets off in his boat to woo the daughter of Pohjola, but she chooses instead Ilmarinen, the forger of the Sampo.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/kaleva7.html (1615 words)

	FINLANDIA (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Finlandia [sound recording] ; Karelia suite ; Lemminkäinen's return ; Pohjola's daughter ; The swan of Tuonela ; Valse triste, opus 44, no. 1.
		Finlandia [sound recording] ; Karelia suite ; Luonnotar ; Tapiola ; En saga ; Night-ride and sunrise ; Pohjola's daughter ; Four legends from the Kalevala.
		7 : symphonische Dichtung ; Der Schwan von Tuonela : op.
	www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=FINLANDIA (156 words)

	Swan
		I'd like to stay here forever, with the swan.
		The light was never bright, only a warm ember in the distance.
		The title is 'Swan of Tuonela, Opus 22".
	www.angelfire.com /psy/missyou (580 words)

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