Pan and Echo

Pan and Echo (in Swedish Pan och Echo; in Finnish: Pan ja Kaiku; subtitled "Dance intermezzo No. 3"), Op. 53, is tableau music for orchestra written in early 1906 by the Finnish composer by Jean Sibelius. The piece premiered in Helsinki on 24 March 1906, with Sibelius conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Society; the venue was the original location of the Hotelli Seurahuone (Helsinki City Hall since 1913).

Though brief, Pan and Echo is, according to Sibelius's biographer Andrew Barnett, "poetic, full of feeling, and scored with great sensitivity".



Instrumentation
Pan and Echo is scored for the following instruments, organized by family (woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings):


 * 2 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in B♭), and 2 bassoons
 * 4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in F), and 3 trombones
 * Timpani, bass drum, cymbals, and triangle
 * Violins (I and II), violas, cellos, and double basses

Discography
The Finnish conductor Martti Similä and the Finlandia Orchestra made the world premiere studio recording of Pan and Echo c. 1956 for Fennica. The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings:

Notes, references, and sources

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Also see

 * Pan (god)
 * Echo (mythology)