2/05/2010

Finlandia

They say that you must be Czech to fully undersantd (or rather feel) Ma vlast (or My Fatherland) by Bedrich Smetana. Probably the same is true for Jeane Sibeliu's Finlandia. Yet I really do enjoy it - and feel the spirit of this masterpiece: something mysterious, full of inner tension, inner strength and joy (go to 3:34) and great yet hidden feelings.

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