Her recording project for 2025 is works by Robert Schumann. Notably, Midori’s instrument is the 1734 Guarneri del Gesu, “Ex-Huberman.” Jean Sibelius isn’t just Finland’s most famous ...

While he was still alive the Finnish government issued stamps with his portrait and would have erected a statue to him as well had not Sibelius himself discouraged the project. Probably no composer in ...