Top 5 Favorite Sibelius Works

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What are your top 5 favorite Sibelius works? There's one stipulation here: you can only pick one symphony. Have fun!

Here's my list (in no particular order):

Symphony No. 4
The Oceanides
Lemminkainen Suite
Violin Concerto
Luonnotar

[Karl Henning]

Symphony № 6
Night-Ride & Sunrise
Valse triste
Tapiola
The Tempest

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Symphony № 6
Night-Ride & Sunrise
Valse triste
Tapiola
The Tempest

Hear, hear! I could have definitely chosen Night Ride & Sunrise, Symphony No. 6, Tapiola, but those could have made my top 10. I don't think I've honestly ever paid much attention to Valse triste. Need to give this work a serious listen soon.

[Sergeant Rock]

Symphony No.5
Kullervo
En saga
Wood-Nymph
Tapiola

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Symphony No.5
Kullervo
En saga
Wood-Nymph
Tapiola

Great list, Sarge! Love all of those works.

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Symphony #5
En Saga
Tapiola
Projola's Daughter
Luonnotar

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Symphony #5
En Saga
Tapiola
Projola's Pohjola's Daughter
Luonnotar

Corrected and great list, Paul. Good to see another pick for Luonnotar.

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Corrected and great list, Paul. Good to see another pick for Luonnotar.

Never been good at Finnish spelling!

I would have misspelled Luonnotar had you not provided one for me to copy and paste!

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Never been good at Finnish spelling!

I would have misspelled Luonnotar had you not provided one for me to copy and paste!

[Karl Henning]

Hear, hear! I could have definitely chosen Night Ride & Sunrise, Symphony No. 6, Tapiola, but those could have made my top 10. I don't think I've honestly ever paid much attention to Valse triste. Need to give this work a serious listen soon.

It's a minor work, I don't know if it will sustain serious listening 

[Wanderer]

I was definitely going to cheat with Kullervo, but then Sarge did it, too. 

Not in order of preference:

Symphony No.7
Violin Concerto (with a moderate preference to the original version)
Kullervo
En saga
Wood-Nymph

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It's a minor work, I don't know if it will sustain serious listening 

Every composer has his own Fur Elise. 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Consarn that one symphony rule, I would have substituted the 7th for anything but the glorious & curious 6th :

Symphony #6
VC
En Saga
Wood Nymph
Tapiola

[Brian]

Pohjola's Daughter
Violin Concerto
Luonnotar
Karelia Suite
Symphony No. 5


===ACTUAL TOP FIVE===
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 7
Pohjola's Daughter
Violin Concerto

[Sergeant Rock]

It's a minor work, I don't know if it will sustain serious listening 

I've been listening to it, and enjoying it without tiring of it for half a century. My vote would be: sustainable.

Sarge

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Violin concerto
5th symphony
Luonnotar
Karelia suite
In Memoriam

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It's a minor work, I don't know if it will sustain serious listening 

Since it came from Sibelius' pen, it's definitely worth some serious listening.

[North Star]

I've been listening to it, and enjoying it without tiring of it for half a century. My vote would be: sustainable.

Sarge

+1, well a quarter of a century anyway.

I'm tempted to include Tulen synty, Op. 32 (The Origin of Fire) for baritone, male choir & orchestra after listening to it just now, but here's the list I wrote earlier:

Symphony no. 6
Tapiola
Luonnotar
Pohjola's Daughter
Violin Concerto

[Karl Henning]

I've been listening to it, and enjoying it without tiring of it for half a century. My vote would be: sustainable.

Sarge

Oh, sustain the listening, absolutely!  (It's one of my five favorites!)  Hmm, I wonder if I have a recording of my trio arrangement . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Well, I must have expressed myself poorly.  Not the first time . . . .