| Type: | Dance intermezzo |
| Pan and Echo | |
| Native Name: | Swedish: {{lang|sv|Pan och Echo |
| Image Upright: | .8 |
| Border: | Yes |
| Opus: | 53 |
| Publisher: | Lienau (1907) |
| Duration: | 4.5 mins. |
| Premiere Location: | Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland |
| Premiere Conductor: | Jean Sibelius |
| Premiere Performers: | Helsinki Philharmonic Society |
Pan and Echo (in Swedish Swedish: Pan och Echo; in Finnish: 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 (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".
Pan and Echo is scored for the following instruments, organized by family (woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings):
The Finnish conductor and the Finlandia Orchestra made the world premiere studio recording of Pan and Echo for Fennica. The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings:
| Conductor | Ensemble | Time | Recording venue | Label | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finlandia Orchestra | ? | ? | Fennica | ||||
| 2 | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | 1975 | 4:27 | Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool | EMI Classics | |||
| 3 | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | 1986 | 4:33 | Gothenburg Concert Hall | BIS | |||
| 4 | ? | 4:21 | ? | Elap | ||||
| 5 | 2002 | 4:29 | Finlandia | |||||
| 6 | Lahti Symphony Orchestra | 2004 | 4:07 | Sibelius Hall | BIS | |||
| 7 | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | 2007 | 4:51 | Michael Fowler Centre | Naxos |
sv:Fabian Dahlström
. Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke. Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works. 2003. Breitkopf & Härtel. Wiesbaden. de. 3-7651-0333-0.