Suite champêtre

Concert suite in by Jean Sibelius (1922)

Suite champêtre
Concert suite by Jean Sibelius
The composer (c. 1923)
Opus	98b
Composed	1922 (1922)
Publisher	Hansen (1923)^[1]
Duration	7 mins.^[2]
Movements	3
Premiere
Date	19 February 1923 (1923-02-19)^[3]
Location	Helsinki, Finland
Conductor	Jean Sibelius
Performers	Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

The Suite champêtre, Op. 98b, is a three-movement concert suite for string orchestra written in 1921 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

History

Sibelius finished composing the Suite champêtre on 7 February 1922; immediately, he mailed it to the London-based publishing firm Chappell & Co., which in 1921 accepted the three-movement Suite mignonne (Op. 98a, 1921) for two flutes and strings. However, Chappell refused the new suite, and in the end, Sibelius reached an agreement in April with Copenhagen's Edition Wilhelm Hansen.^[4]

Structure

The Suite champêtre contains three movements, as follows:

Pièce caractéristique. Comodo
Mélodie élégiaque. Poco adagio
Danse. Allegretto

Discography

No.	Conductor	Ensemble	Rec.^[a]	Time	Recording venue	Label	Ref.
1	Sir Charles Groves	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra			Liverpool Philharmonic Hall	EMI Classics	^[b]
2	Pekka Helasvuo [fi]	Finlandia Sinfonietta [fi]	1985	7:18	Laurentius Hall [fi]	Finlandia	^[c]
3	Neeme Järvi	Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra	1987	9:04	Gothenburg Concert Hall	BIS	^[d]
4	Péter Csaba	Virtuosi di Kuhmo [fi]		7:53		Ondine	^[e]
5	Juha Kangas [fi]	Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra	1994	7:27	Kaustinen Church [fi]	Finlandia	^[f]
6	William Boughton	English String Orchestra	1988	7:37	Great Hall, University of Birmingham	Nimbus	^[g]
7	Tuomas Hannikainen [fi]	Tapiola Sinfonietta	2000	6:22	Tapiola Hall, Espoo Cultural Centre	Ondine	^[h]
8	Osmo Vänskä	Lahti Symphony Orchestra	2005	7:27	Sibelius Hall	BIS	^[i]

Notes, references, and sources

Notes

^ Refers to the year in which the performers recorded the work; this may not be the same as the year in which the recording was first released to the general public.
^ C. Groves–EMI Classics (5 85532 2) 2003
^ P. Helasvuo–Finlandia (FACD 354) 1986
^ N. Järvi–BIS (CD–384) 1988
^ P. Csaba–Ondine (ODE 830–2) 1994
^ J. Kangas–Finlandia (4509–98995–2) 1996
^ W. Boughton–Nimbus (NI 7716/7) 2000
^ T. Hannikainen–Ondine (ODE 952–2) 2000
^ O. Vänskä–BIS (CD–1921/23) 2009

References

^ Dahlström 2003, p. 418.
^ Dahlström 2003, pp. 419–420.
^ Dahlström 2003, pp. 413, 420.
^ Barnett 2007, pp. 295–296.

Sources

Barnett, Andrew (2007). Sibelius. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11159-0.
Dahlström, Fabian [in Swedish] (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke [Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 3-7651-0333-0.
Tawaststjerna, Erik (2008) [1978/1988; trans. 1997]. Sibelius: Volume III, 1914–1957. Translated by Layton, Robert. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-24774-5.

External links

Suite champêtre, Op. 98b: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Jean Sibelius

Symphonies

Kullervo (1892)
Symphony No. 1 (1899, rev. 1900)
Symphony No. 2 (1902)
Symphony No. 3 (1907)
Symphony No. 4 (1911)
Symphony No. 5 (1915, rev. 1916, 1919)
Symphony No. 6 (1923)
Symphony No. 7 (1924)
Symphony No. 8 (mid 1920s–c. 1938, abandoned)

Concertante

Violin Concerto (1904, rev. 1905)
Two Serenades (1912–1913)
Two Serious Melodies (1914–1915)
Six Humoresques (1917–1918, No. 1 rev. 1940)
Suite for Violin and String Orchestra (1929)

Tone poems

En saga (1892, rev. 1902)
Spring Song (1894, rev. 1895)
The Wood Nymph (1895)
Lemminkäinen Suite
- 1895, rev. 1897, 1900, 1939; includes The Swan of Tuonela
Finlandia (1899)
Pohjola's Daughter (1906)
Nightride and Sunrise (1909)
The Dryad (1910)
The Bard (1913)
Luonnotar (1913)
The Oceanides (1914, rev. 1914)
Tapiola (1926)

Opera & theatre

The Building of the Boat (1893–1894, abandoned)
The Maiden in the Tower (1896)
King Christian II (1898)
Kuolema
- 1903; includes Valse triste
Pelléas et Mélisande (1905)
Belshazzar's Feast (1906)
Swanwhite (1908)
The Lizard (1909)
The Language of the Birds (1911)
Scaramouche (1913)
Everyman (1916)
The Tempest (1925)

Cantatas

Cantata for the University Graduation Ceremonies of 1894
Cantata for the Coronation of Nicholas II (1896)
Cantata for the University Graduation Ceremonies of 1897
The Origin of Fire (1902, rev. 1910)
The Captive Queen (1906)
My Own Land (1918)
Song of the Earth (1919)
Hymn of the Earth (1920)
Väinämöinen's Song (1926)

Other voice(s) & orchestra

The Rapids-Rider's Brides (1897)
The Breaking of the Ice on the Oulu River (1899)
Snöfrid (1900)
Marjatta (1905, abandoned)
Impromptu (1902, rev. 1910)
The Raven (1910, abandoned)

Other orchestral

Overture in E major (1891)
Ballet Scene (1891)
Karelia Suite (1893)
Rakastava (1894, arr. 1912)
Scènes historiques I (1899, arr. 1911)
Overture in A minor (1902)
Romance in C major (1904)
Cassazione (1904, rev. 1905)
Pan and Echo (1906)
In memoriam (1909, rev. 1910)
Scènes historiques II (1912)
Suite mignonne (1921)
Suite champêtre (1922)
Suite caractéristique (1922)

String quartets

String Quartet in E-flat major (1885)
String Quartet in A minor (1889)
String Quartet in B-flat major (1890)
String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae (1909)
Andante festivo (1922, orch. 1938)

Piano trios

Piano Trio in A minor, Hafträsk (1886)
Piano Trio in D major, Korpo (1887)
Piano Trio in C major, Lovisa (1888)

Other chamber

Water Droplets (c. 1875–1881)
Pieces for brass septet (1889–1899)
Piano Quintet (1890)
Malinconia (1900)
Violin Sonatina (1915)

Piano

Six Impromptus (1893)
Piano Sonata (1893)
Ten Pieces, Op. 24 (1895–1903)
Kyllikki (1904)
Three Sonatinas (1912)
The Bells of Kallio Church (1912, arr. 1912)
Two Rondinos (1912)
Five Pieces, The Trees, Op. 75 (1914)
Five Pieces, The Flowers, Op. 85 (1916–1917)
Five Esquisses (1929)

Songs

Seven Runeberg Songs, Op. 13 (1891–1892)
"Serenad", JS 168 (1894–1895)
Six Songs, Op. 36 (1899–1900)
Five Songs, Op. 37 (1900–1902)
Seven Songs, Op. 17 (1891–1904)
Five Songs, Op. 38 (1903–1904; includes "Höstkväll")
Six Songs, Op. 50 (1906)
Two Songs, Op. 35 (1908)
"Kom nu hit, död", Op. 60/1 (1909, orch. 1957)
"Arioso", Op. 3 (1911)
Five Christmas Songs, Op. 1 (1897–1913; includes "Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt")
Six Runeberg Songs, Op. 90 (1917)