Malinconia, Op.20 (1900)

Sibelius: Malinconia. In February 1900 a typhus epidemic broke out in Kerava, near Helsinki. Sibelius's youngest duaghter, Kirsti, contracted the disease and died. It was in the aftermath of her death that Sibelius composed his longest surviving piece for cello and piano. This intense impassioned music betrays a stylistic affinity with the Second Symphony, with which it is roughly contemporary.
With Torleif Thedéen, cello and Folke Gräsbeck, piano.