Summary: "Sibelius: Symphonies nos. 4 & 7" When Sibelius was in his mid-40s, he thought he was going to die. His doctors had found a growth in his throat and after several operations his prognosis was still not good. He was a hard-living, hard-drinking cigar smoker. For a time, he gave it all up and wrote his dark, inward-looking, modern-sounding Symphony No. 4, a work that baffled not only many listeners but conductors as well. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/2063IlTempLargo [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]
