Sibelius: "Sången om Korsspindeln", Teddy Björkman, 1929 restored

The "Song of the Cross-Spider" is from Sibelius's music to Adolf Paul's 1898 play "Kungen Kristian II", Op 27. The King was also known as "Kristian the Tyrant". The song was published separately from the incidental music Suite as Op 27/4. The soloist here is the Finnish bass baritone Teddy Björkman (1896-1966) who was a soloist at the Finnish Opera. Björkman sang a huge block of basic Finnish repertoire within a couple of days in 1929 in Helsinki on the Odeon label, this piece appears as xxHf115/AA210604. The orchestra is not mentioned, the arrangement is by Simon Pergament-Parmet. Unfortunately Björkman seems to have moved around during recording so his voice appears more echoing at times from the room reflections.