the cor anglaise player is very fine indeed.

I agree.

That deep, internal feeling of transport.....that moment when you feel at one with the music as it enters your soul and gently takes you along with it to a wonderful place.

and among the most expensive...

I wholly agree. There is no other instrument that surpasses the cor anglais in beauty and tone.

Yes, the Cor Anglais is wonderful, but how can one not think of the glories of the Cello as well-it’s range of expression, from dark despair to soaring lyricism,. Little wonder it has so many passionate works written for it and so many passionate players.

@@gavasiarobinssson5108 try a bass oboe

Nice bit of info,

After reading your comments and listening to this piece at the same time, a renewed feeling emerged inside me....something wonderous and beautiful. Haven't heard this music since I was a teenager, some 50-60 years ago, originally introduced to me by my father who loved it as much as I did.

Many ears ago, I was at Ainola, the building named after Sibelius wife. It is now a museum. But it was bad timing, it was a monday, and the museum was closed. I think it was there he struggled with his eight symphonie, and at last burned it up, but that is not verified. As it is not verified about the swan circling around the house, taking his soul to a better place. But it is nice to think about it. As many from his time said, Janne (as he was called by his family, not Jean) had the looks of an eagle, and it is strange to think that a swan would take an eagle to a better place. But wonders will never cease.

That is a beautiful testimony. This piece also affects me positively, bringing up a whole string of good memories of people I've known and admired, respected, and loved. I will play this piece often in the rest of my days on Earth. Yours was very well written. Thank you.

Συγχαρητήρια ,για την από βάθους καρδιάς εξομολόγηση !!!!

So beautifully written. The girl gave you her love through this music, and you still have it.

It is not only Japanese people that can not open their mouth and tell what they are missing, this disease is spread around the world. So thank you for your dream. And the swan of Tuonela is a wise swan, she will understand.

I thought your icon was a bug on my screen :/

I agree, my favorite version.

Isn’t it stunning

Oops wrong piece

@@franklinphan3572 Ooops, wrong comment.

Could be, but this swan never has mate. It is the mythical swan swimming in the dark river between our world and the world beyond.

Ed Steadham, thank you for your poetic and thought provoking commentary of this stunningly beautiful piece. Your impression and interpretation is very much in harmony with mine. This is the first time I've heard this since my father first introduced it to me when I was teenager, some 50-60 years ago. The melody brought back such a flood of previous, sacred memories.

Correction:. (Here we go again), "PRECIOUS", sacred memories.

Yes she is. Thanks for watching my video.

i'm very thankful that the japanese have such an enjoyment of classical music and the ability to play so wonderfully.

The double reed instruments are among my favorites. i play bassoon, myself and I find that this lady plays outstandgingly well.

Sibelius has always been appreciated and well played in Japan.

Ah, Fred Child is my go-to host midday here in Bloomington on WFIU.

@@ecphorizer Isn't he wonderful?! He has such soothing voice. Very informative without being pretentious.

Yes, she is. Thanks for your comment.

Gracias por ver mi video.

+dondokodokodon Usted las merece por regalarnos esta joya. Saludos cordiales.

Karajan was the least musical of conductors, he distorted everything and punched things up. He was a genius of sorts and the BPO under him was an amazing machine but under agreat musicianw like Furt

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I do too! The tone is perfect to evoke a swan.

But now it has 140 000 listeners on KZfaq. You are not alone.

@@staffanolofsson8201 In my heart of hearts, I am "there" now....and spellbound.

@@christophermurphy4982 Chistopher, you made me listen to this, again, and now Im also spellbound. By the way, we are now 150 000.

@@staffanolofsson8201 Staffan, it is comforting and encouraging to know we are not alone in our love and appreciation of this soul-touching music. Maybe there's also some consolation in realizing we are a breed apart in our ability to perceive more deeply the grandeur it offers us. I consider this a gift that I was fortunate enough to receive from my father.

The swan is not dreaming of flight. In Finnish mythology, the swan of Tuonela lives at and swims along the Tuonela river which is a slow-moving, black stream that separates the sphere of the living from Tuonela, the land of the dead whereto people go when they die. In Sibelius's work, one postulates one can hear the swan sing, rendered by the English horn, as she swims by. The swan has been depicted in other forms of art, too, and is originally described in Kalevala, the Finnish national epic poem. Swans were regarded sacred in pre-Christian Finnish ethos.

It was a literary figure, "as if the swan dreamed of flight," so we can imagine the swan as thinking and desiring. It is a translation of the feelings that this beautiful music can convey.

OK. I do not get that association at all. I bethink myself of the swan's being mournful albeit not despondent in her singing, as she glides along the river, as is her wont.

His projection is also feasible and beautiful.

Merchant Loop I think it's her swan song. This is A requiem for a swan. [by the swan itself] That's how I 'hear it' anyway

It's music. Best not to look too hard for episodic correspondence throughout it. Like ekphrastic writing, it uses the Finnish legend as a springboard to enter an atmosphere and create within it. This way of working among creative artists is quite common.

@@noriemeha Excellent description. Thank you.👍🏼

Shoko Ikeda

***** thank you?

+Paulo Arantes And who is the excellent cellist lady? Anybody knows ?

She is Mrs. Kaeko Mukouyama who is one of the greatest Japanese cellist.