My rendering of the song by Sibelius, sung by Hilary Robinson. I thought it a beautiful, simple song, though rather melodramatic. It's something I've begun to notice more and more, how a lot of classical music has a kind of public quality: despite the fact that much of this kind of work was written partly as parlour music, it's still designed to be performed on a public stage. I tried to make a more sympathetic, intimate, psychological version that is more suited to the kind of solitary listening that makes up the majority of my own musical experiences today.
