 | from Sibelius: Pelleas and Melisande & other works (CKD220) 1 At the castle gate [2'57] 26 minutes 22 seconds 9 tracks2 Melisande [4'14] 3 At the seashore [2'05] 4 A spring in the park [1'58] 5 The three blind sisters [2'16] 6 Pastorale [2'00] 7 Melisande at the spinning-wheel [1'46] 8 Entr'acte [2'50] 9 The death of Melisande [6'16] 'Although he only completed one, short opera, Sibelius was no stranger to the theatre. This enterprising disc brings some of his better-known incidental scores together with music less often aired. Pe ... 'I like the menace that Swensen finds in this music [Pelleas and Melisande], and also in The Tempest. 'At the seashore', (the number Beecham omits) is quite threatening; nature's violenc ...  Classics Today |