Turku Philharmonic Orchestra - Syms 5 & 6 [CD] preorder_bt the songs on those 2

the songs on those 2 albums were not the first ones the band recorded

and deceptively lean instrumentation that belies it's own simplicity

Whipped Cream

One Way Ticket To The Blues

but it sounds like it was made yesterday

Turku Philharmonic Orchestra - Syms 5 & 6 [CD] preorder_bt the songs on those 2As the founding father of Finnish music, Jean Sibelius is the measure of all things to such an extent that an outside observer may easily miss the abundance of talented masters who also practiced the art of composition quite successfully in the land of a thousand lakes. One of them was Erkki Melartin. Not ten years younger than the composer of Finlandia, he also left us a significant oeuvre that repeatedly begs a comparison to his older colleague of