Leader, BERTRAM LEWIS
Conducted by JULIUS HARRISON
Solo violin, EDA KERSEY
Relayed from The Pavilion,
Bournemouth
Of all Sibelius's symphonies, with the possible exception of the third, the fifth is the most straightforward and the most orthodox in material and design-even though there are only three movements in place of the usual four, and no slow movement at all. The music is Sibelius at his most melodic, most genial, and least complex. Highly personal as everything Sibelius writes is bound to be, the fifth symphony is one which strikes the note of spontaneous beauty before that of profundity.