Lemminkäinen

[ lem-in-kai-nen ]

noun

1. (in the Kalevala ) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.

Example Sentences

It was a delivery reminiscent of the program’s opener, “Lemminkäinen’s Return,” the fourth legend from Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen Suite,” based on the “Kalevala,” Finland’s national epic.

From New York Times

Daniil Trifonov, a welcome fixture at David Geffen Hall, will join for a program of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, as well as selections from Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen Suite” and Raminta Šerkšnytė’s “De Profundis,” from 1998.

From New York Times

This isn’t an orchestra that does spectacular soft atmosphere, but moments like the stillness of the second movement, “Lemminkäinen in Tuonela,” when the barest shiver of violins is frosted by the barest shiver of rat-a-tat drum, were finely controlled.

From New York Times

Replacing the young hotshot Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, who would have made her Philharmonic debut with these concerts but remains on maternity leave, Paavo Jarvi conducts a program of Sibelius’s “Lemminkainen and the Maidens of the Island,” the second suite from Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto.

From New York Times

In January, Salonen will go to San Francisco to conduct a program of consisting of Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen Suite,” and “Metacosmos,” a hypnotically seething soundscape by the forty-one-year-old Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

From The New Yorker