The concert concluded with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5. For those who get caught up in such things, this is considered to be the greatest fifth symphony ever written. That’s saying something ...

The coupling is a Fifth Symphony with Barbirolli’s beloved Hallé from the 1968 Proms which ... and in the second movement it’s a joy to hear Sibelius’s delicious pizzicato writing “speak” with such ...

If sonic splendour were the sole criterion, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Sibelius symphony cycle with the Philharmonia would win every prize ... Berglund’s or Sanderling’s. On the debit side, the Fifth is ...

Like so much Sibelius, this Fifth was a sonic landscape painting, a glorious mountain range jutting up from the horizon. But unlike many Sibelius interpretations, Rouvali brought bar-to-bar ...

The Strauss Don Juan and Sibelius Fifth Symphony had comparable assets in power and projection. Apart from some high violin chatters not entirely tidy early in the Strauss, the playing throughout ...