Sibelius: Symphony 7 ( Full) - Karajan* 

Mahler around 23 minutes: "Let me introduce the woodwinds." Sibelius: "Well, I guess that's all."

This symphony has helped me cope with the loss of my brother. Even though he wasn't a classical buff, I feel him (or something angelic) when the trombones do that call around 5-1/2 minutes and again at 19 minutes. And it's not a sad connection, it's a conveyance that everything's all right.

Ads should be banned from classical music!

Today is Finland's 106th independence day. Sibelius left a great legacy to the art and culture of this country. It is unfortunate that very few Finns know how to appreciate it anymore. And it's not even about patriotism, it's about great music.

5:16 most awesome ascending major scale in the history of classical music

Impossibly beautiful.

The buildup of musical material in the first movement is so majestic and uplifting. It is like Sibelius says ''Do not worry, there are bigger things in life, things worth living for, those that redeem us and make us enjoy the majesty of nature''.

Sibelius 7th symphony in C major holds a special place in my heart! It is without a doubt one of the greatest symphonies ever composed!

2:25 to about 6:00 is my favorite part. So beautiful

For me, one of the greatest symphonies ever.

this is just the most beautiful music i have ever heard in my life.

A mystic experience.

During covid times listening to Sibelius's symphonies is the best way to feel a beauty of Finnish nature.

I went to a NyPhil performance of Sibelius's second symphony and went to a pre-performance talk. The speaker, a celebrated musicologist, mentioned that the second symphony is probably Sibelius's most popular symphony, but that in his opinion the seventh symphony is one of the best symphonies ever written.

Ahh the melodies! Ahh the textures!!! Ahhhhh the pacing!!! Ahhhh the colours!!!! *eargasms*

11:25... violins feel like the wind... this masterpiece blows our mind away from useless thoughts.. 🌬️

I really love Sibelius -- he's one of my most favorite composers. But I gotta comment on the video here. Way back in 1976, I was in the US Army and stationed at Ft. Wainright, Alaska, which is just outside of Fairbanks. We were up there for winter war games, stationed TDY for a month. I had a gravy gig while I was up there. I drove the shuttle "bus," which made hourly trips from the barracks to the NCO club, until it closed, which I think was midnight. This "bus" was actually a Deuce-and-a-half 10-wheeler with six-wheel drive and with an arctic personnel carrier module on the back. It was insulated and had its own heater. But up front where I was, there was no heater, so I was driving around in temps on average of -30F. I got used to it. Anyway, because I was doing the night thing I got lucky and was outside the barracks when an Aurora Borialis show started up and it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Sure I'd seen photos of the Aurora Borialis taken from hundreds of miles south of where they were occurring, and they just looked like some sort of diaphanous, shimmering, multicolored sheets hovering in the sky. Interesting, but nothing special. Well, yeah, but I'd never been directly under them when they were getting all fired up, either. This video has sections showing the AB that are very similar to what I experienced on only a single night in January, 1976. That was the only night during my month's stay where there was an AB display. But it was simply magnificent. The display was very bright and appeared to be almost pure white with some light color fringing on the edges. I suspect that, with a strong AB display such as the one I saw, the closer you get to it, the more intensely bright it becomes, thus the color is washed out. In other words, if I were viewing this display from, say, Anchorage, I would see it as being much more colorful. The view was just spectacular. I was in awe, captivated by the event that lasted most of the night. These thick sheets of light would race from one horizon to the next in a fraction of a second, directly overhead. Twisting and writhing like heavenly serpents as they shot across the sky. Sometimes they would come together and braid themselves into a continuous intertwining, weaving, racing rope of light. I will remember that night for as long as I live. Thanks for this video. It's the closest I've seen to what I actually experienced that night.

Sibelius 7 Startup at 5:15

Wow! First time I've listened to Sibelius....totally blown away!

This is absolutely wonderful music by the greatest composer there ever was !

Lots to love in Symphony No. 7. I just can't get that magical theme out of my head.

Life-changing. We don't deserve you, Jean.

GREAT................SO BEAUTIFULL

Truly outstanding! This is a brilliant rendering of one the very greatest symphonies of the twentieth century.

The finale is one of the best in classical repertoire.

Is one movement enough to be an entire symphony? This one is, it happens to be one of the most emotional symphonies ever. This music sound primal and definitive.

I continue to be awed by the Sibelius power. IMHO, Mahler and Sibelius are the greatest composers of the 20th century. Both have garnered a cosmic grasp of what music can convey at the most primal levels.

This, the 5th and Tapiola are, surely, the pinnacle of all music...

Here I have been sitting the past half-hour, reading the wikipedia entry on Sibelius and just now discovered the gorgeous video with the music. Now, I'll have to go back to enjoy it all over again!!! Hooray for screwups, LOL.

I've listened to all of the symphonies of the classical and romantic repertory, and of the modern, and the late baroque, and this is the strongest one of them all. It's completely free of the artifice of the classical and romantic symphonic style. It's what a symphony truly should be and that is a personal statement. It is the most personal work from any artist I've ever heard in my entire life.

this is/was - probably the most beautiful music I have heard by Sibelius - I thank my college music teacher for turning me on to this!

Thanks to RU-vid I’m discovering the works of several composers I’d never heard of. But I have to say, from time to time I have to return to the tried and tested great works, such as this one!

Goosebumps all over my body !

The Greatest symphony ever made. It's one block of an everlasting melody that describes the organic world of life. People mention his 2nd or 5th as his greatest. They have wonderful melodies and interesting form development, but it is far more difficult composing a piece such as the 7th without any very catchy tunes. It is but one full stream of consciousness he is describing with NO BREAKS. There is no sign that there is a break between his thoughts. It is one thought without any break for the whole duration of this piece, always expansive like life itself. No other symphony comes close to describing that.

I love this piece! Every time I here the Sibelius opening tune (for the program) it makes me want to listen to the whole thing!

Sibelius"s dramatic music is perfectly shown is this video

Von Karajan = The Master!

After listening to this, may I die in peace.

i love karajan's sibelius

Another stunning performance by Karajan and the BPO.

Die Musik ist mystisch

The visuals fit the music so well. Both are so beautiful. My eyes and ears thank you.

Musically, this is the swelling of primeval magma into the rock sculptures of Scafell and the bitter cold of an ice-storm sweeping over a high col at Bowfell. Those doom laden trombones with their prophesies of a world's end and the final abrupt cadence from dominant to a despairing tonic make this symphony a precious and unique gem. Listen to it a hundred times and try to imagine what Sibelius was seeing in his mind's eye. It is more than music; it is a prophesy.

Really you have got one of the best records I ever hear thank you

I've just listened to this symphony for the first time. It's really gorgeous! What a profound composition speaking to the spirit in the most wonderful language: the music! The part at 15:00 when it makes like a recalling of his 3rd symphony is really touching. This is a great choice for finishing the year 2015 on this 31st December. Happy New Year to everyone and let's celebrate the Sibelius music 150 years after his birth!!!

Wow...and to think that I am listening to his last symphony, after having listened to the first six, and all in an afternoon/evening...such as which I have never done before.... And all for the first time, of course...I had to listen to his fifth three times.... I've never had this experience with any other composer, but then...nearly all of the symphonies run less than half an hour, still though....THANK YOU!!!....

Even in his (Karajan) younger days he conducted Sibelius. When he conducted (after 2nd WW) Sibelius Symphonies in Finnland, Sibelius himself attended the concert and praise him.

thank you for this wonderful video,the beautiful photography of Finland,and Karajans performance of this great symphony are just amazing.

I keep listening to it in awe, every week, every month, Karajan's version. If they made me choose between Wagner and Sibelius I wouldn't hesitate. Oftentimes, whilst listening to certain parts of this symphony I say to myself...If I were to choose between discarding the bulk of western music and this...I'll keep the seventh...

Who can disagree that the very best part of this symphony is from 21:27 to the end? (remembering of course that one must hear the entire piece to derive maximal satisfaction from this closing bit).

A grandiose work, reminding of the auroras of the north pole.

This for me is the top [psting both for the music and the images, It was great to see footage of Sibelius. The performance is incredible.

2:00 my personal favorite moment.. so beautiful

É um verdadeiro génio musical, com estilo e estrutura muito próprios. Karayan é o melhor interprete, com é sabido.

this is glorious

Having heard this (and Afternoon of a Faun), one has not lived in vain.

Музыка Сибелиуса прекрасна Исполнение блестящее! Особо хочется отметить зрительный ряд! Великолепно!

Great performance -- and wonderful images of northern Finland -- which I can see from the star patterns. Magnificent Northern lights!

Marvelous visuals, marvelous music.

I think the best description I’ve heard of this symphony came from Sibelius himself (if I’m remembering correctly): he said that “the 7th is like a churning river that gains momentum with sometimes unexplainable and mysterious forces”

If I were an oncologist, and a patient of mine approached me claiming that his or her carcinoma spontaneously vanished after listening to Sibelius's 7th symphony, I would have completely believed it! this symphony is powerful!

One of my two favorite Sibelius symphonies (the other being the 4th), there's something haunting about that part 11:25.

What a majestic composition! This is the pinnacle of Sibelius' works. What a performance. This has to be my # 1 Sibelius Seventh followed by Lorin Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic.

The ads that interrupt this wonderful piece do it a tremendous injustice !

GREAT idea to insert an ad break right at the climax of the symphony. Because who doesn’t want their transcendent listening experience interrupted by someone selling car insurance?

Very good pictures to the music... compliments!!

5:32 is so quietly epic.

I wanted so much for Berglund/Bournemouth to take the claim, but this is still the one, for all its recording shortcomings - what a gem of a video!!!

An extraordinary composition played wonderfully. Thank you for the gorgeous visual presentation.

Fantastic, best performance ever.

It's like the 4th and 5th had a love child...it's so good

Beautiful......Thanks for posting

Listen it with headphones, or you will lost much thing!

Music and video : excellent combination. Congratulation and thanks

What an incredible mind! A master of dissonance 19:01

The best symphonie of 20th century

Timeless beauty for the ages

Beautiful! Thanks for posting.

15:09 my favourite part.

this music is amazing!

A prodigy of synthesis and conciseness

The Trombone... A very sweet and expression melody!!!

Sibelius 7 is of the highest among

WONDERFUL,,.thank you!!!!

Just thinking of this piece of music brings tears to my eyes. That scale at around 5:10 is one of the most exquisite, transcendent experiences I will ever have in my life

Fantástico, sublime, obra de arte.

Karajan's 4,5&6 (early 60's DG) are the best renditions I've heard. Get the vinyl and give a real HiFi spin - you'll melt...

One movement. Very unusual, and very beautiful.

Harmonie parfaite entre la vidéo et la fabuleuse musique qui virevolte au rythme des aurores boréales 🙏🎶❤️🎶✨

シベリウスのこの交響曲は、このカラヤンベルリンフｨルの描く終盤に向けての音響の構築が粉々に砕けていく様のベストだと思う。 築きあげて来た理想の音響建築物が元の音の粒子に飛び散っていくのだ。細粒化しながら。このベルリンフィルの演奏でカラヤンの指揮ではっきりとシベリウスの意図である音の終焉が見えるのだ。

Magisterial.

Amazing music and videos! Thanks for this intermezzo.

DAT ascension and relief... @5:15 truly wonderful

Searched for "Sibelius 7" and quickly realized I would need to amend my search terms to get what I wanted :)

Sometimes, I wait for just the right opportunity to listen to a specific work and now I’m kicking myself time and again that I hadn’t listened to this ridiculously amazing personal masterpiece that Sibelius created until now. Wow, just wow. Trying to grasp an understanding and sheer meaning of what this work means and why it’s so unique.

magnifica edicion de imagenes..junto a la musica le da una fuerza y grandeza que se funde lo mas bello y representativo del espiritu finlandes.

von Karajan is just right for Sibelius.

Just Great!

Enjoyed very much. Thank you.

Fabelaktig 👍👍👍