The very best Sibelius recordings in analog

Finest 2, I ever heard was1969 Halle O. under Barbirolli on Testament.
The 1954 complete Karajan/Berlin set on Columbia was best ever on vinyl but good-luck finding it .

As northernfox says the digital vinyl Davis RCA/LSO is best ever. Some would say his earlier Boston/Phillips was , to me it has little better sound .
Both are superb .

If you really want to hear Sibelius as should be the current BIS
recordings with Osmo Vanska leading the Minnesota Orch . are to die for.
The rhythm is spot-on as is the up through the bass line approach needed in these symphonies , best Conductor and Band for Sibelius extant . The clarity of Sibelius is there in every note .
Reviews in Finland and all through Europe are off the charts .

I heard him play a Brahms clarinet piece , I believe he could get a 1st job in Berlin or Vienna , perhaps even with the greatest German O., the Leipzig Gewandhaus .

Erased as a bit cheeky.
My all-time fav, which nobody agrees with, is Kurt Masur . He saw the big picture enough to view the Brahms 4 as 4 parts of one symphony . Made a good case for it too .
In the heart of the German Symphony from Mendelssohn to Brahms he batted 750 every time . Several times my wife and I heard him day after Karajan,, a revelation to hear, and see, players respond to an honest man
who they loved compared to puppets on strings pulled by a man they did not .
Critics often seem to see him as a "kappelmeister" which is just plain stupid IMO . .
Also, there is a video of him walking alone in a great crowd in Leipzig, days before the wall fell, for hours telling people to remain calm and refrain from violence . A great man still much beloved in Leipzig . May his soul rest forever in peace .

People think in their native language which affects every thing you do to include playing, hearing or writing music . In fact you can not think without language , and tend to think in same MANNER as those who share their native tongue .
Goes double for languages that are not related to most common ones and/or little studied elsewhere such as Finnish, Hungarian and Czech , all of which are very musical cultures .

If the brain could not speak you would not be playing chess or squash .
Nor would either exist .

Case # 1 for music is difference between French and German classical music which been expounded upon for a least a century.
I’ve read several times that some conductors won’t touch "Symphonic Dances" for that  reason . 
I'd like to hear JoAnn Falletta  give it a shot myself .

Not a few think part of reason that Sibelius is so beloved by Finns ( what other composers birthday is a National Holiday) is that his native tongue was Swedish, and as a perfectionist, he studied Finnish in a way few Finns ever did.
He said he knew he was a true Finn when he started to dream in it .


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You’re missing the point sevs, if you brain could not verbalize you never would have got past your high-chair stage .
Most of what humans do is done in our sub-conscious. the brain is talking like crazy, you just don't know it .

Story of  all of our lives, buddy .

Where did you find them?

His 5th might be the best available .

Let me know if I got the "Finnish to the bone" thing with Maria  please harold .Got my week in Turku vacation in May set up .