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...The only surviving evidence of him conducting his music is a performance of the Andante festivo in 1939. For much of the 20th century, the spectrum of interpretation was limited....
...The short Andante festivo that opened the recital had already introduced their bright, rather edgy sound....
...The three-movement Suite Champêtre, op 98b, emerged as a trifle, but the orchestra’s strings resounded handsomely in the glowingly hymnlike Andante festivo, which Saraste invested with more emotional charge...
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