Pan and Echo

*Pan and Echo*
Pan and Echo
Dance intermezzo by Jean Sibelius
	The composer (c. 1905)
Native name	Pan och Echo
Opus	53
Composed	1906
Publisher	Lienau (1907)
Duration	4.5 mins.
Premiere
Date	24 March 1906
Location	Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Conductor	Jean Sibelius
Performers	Helsinki Philharmonic Society

Pan and Echo (in Swedish Pan och Echo; in Finnish: Pan ja Kaiku; subtitled "Dance intermezzo No. 3"),^[1] Op. 53,^[a] is tableau music for orchestra written in early 1906 by the Finnish composer by Jean Sibelius. The piece premiered in Helsinki on 24 March 1906, with Sibelius conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Society; the venue was the original location of the Hotelli Seurahuone [fi] (Helsinki City Hall since 1913).^[2]^[1]

Though brief, Pan and Echo is, according to Sibelius's biographer Andrew Barnett, "poetic, full of feeling, and scored with great sensitivity".^[2]

Instrumentation

Pan and Echo is scored for the following instruments,^[1] organized by family (woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings):

2 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in B♭), and 2 bassoons
4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in F), and 3 trombones
Timpani, bass drum, cymbals, and triangle
Violins (I and II), violas, cellos, and double basses

Discography

The Finnish conductor Martti Similä [fi] and the Finlandia Orchestra made the world premiere studio recording of Pan and Echo c. 1956 for Fennica.^[1] The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings:

No.	Conductor	Ensemble	Rec.^[b]	Time	Recording venue	Label	Ref.
1	Martti Similä [fi]	Finlandia Orchestra	c. 1956	?	?	Fennica	^[c]
2	Sir Charles Groves	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra	1975	4:27	Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool	EMI Classics	^[d]
3	Neemi Järvi	Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra	1986	4:33	Gothenburg Concert Hall	BIS	^[e]
4	Stanislav Gorkovenko	Saint Petersburg Radio and TV Orchestra [ru]	?	4:21	?	Elap	^[f]
5	Shuntaro Sato	Kuopio Symphony Orchestra [fi]	2002	4:29	Kuopio Music Centre [fi]	Finlandia	^[g]
6	Osmo Vänskä	Lahti Symphony Orchestra	2004	4:07	Sibelius Hall	BIS	^[h]
7	Pietari Inkinen	New Zealand Symphony Orchestra	2007	4:51	Michael Fowler Centre	Naxos	^[i]

Notes, references, and sources

Notes

^ Pan and Echo was published as Sibelius's Op. 53a. However, no work in his oeuvre retains the 'Op. 53b' designation.
^ 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.
^ [ M. Similä–Fennica (SS 1) 1968]
^ C. Groves–EMI Classics (85532) 2004
^ N. Järvi–BIS (CD–359) 1987
^ S. Gorkovenko–Elap (44183CD) 1998
^ S. Sato–Finlandia (0927–49598–2) 2003
^ O. Vänskä–BIS (CD–1565) 2006
^ P. Inkinen–Naxos (8.570763) 2008

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Dahlström 2003, p. 245.
^ ^a ^b Barnett 2007, p. 175.

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.

Also see

External links

Pan and Echo (Pan och Echo), Op. 53: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

[2] Pan and Echo was published as Sibelius's Op. 53a. However, no work in his oeuvre retains the 'Op. 53b' designation.

[4] 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.

[5] [ M. Similä–Fennica (SS 1) 1968]

[6] C. Groves–EMI Classics (85532) 2004

[7] N. Järvi–BIS (CD–359) 1987

[8] S. Gorkovenko–Elap (44183CD) 1998

[9] S. Sato–Finlandia (0927–49598–2) 2003

[10] O. Vänskä–BIS (CD–1565) 2006

[11] P. Inkinen–Naxos (8.570763) 2008

[FOOTNOTEDahlström2003245-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Dahlström 2003, p. 245.

[FOOTNOTEBarnett2007175-3] Barnett 2007, p. 175.

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