Aallottaret (The Oceanids)

The Oceanids ( Finnish: Aallottaret ) op. 73 from 1914 is a tone poem and one of the few works by Jean Sibelius that is not based on a Finnish subject. The work was commissioned by the American musician Horatio Parker , for the trip to America in 1914 for the Norfolk Festival in Connecticut . A first working version, which was later significantly modified, bore the German title Rondeau der Wellen . The tone poem takes about 8½ minutes.

The work refers to classical mythology . The Oceanids are nymphs, daughters of the sea god Oceanus and his wife Tethys .

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• Barry Millington in the booklet to the complete recording of the symphonies with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle 1984–88, 1991