If sonic splendour were the sole criterion, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Sibelius symphony cycle with the Philharmonia would win every prize going. Only the spectacularly natural results obtained by the BIS ...

Even in his lifetime, Jean Sibelius was considered Finland’s greatest ... of his fireplace… never to be heard. In Facing The Music, we experience the human drama behind some of the most ...

Probably no composer in history has meant so much to his native country as did Sibelius. He still does. ‘He is Finland in music; and he is Finnish music,’ observed one critic. Sibelius was born in a ...

The on-stage boat, a visual synecdoche, is buffeted while the orchestra plays the Act I Scene I “On a ship at sea” storm music by Sibelius. Composers from Vivaldi to Haydn to Beethoven to ...

And there’s more music-making from Belfast in our centrepiece today, when Italian violinist Francesca Dego joins the Ulster Orchestra for Sibelius’s Violin Concerto at 2pm. And in the lead-up ...

Recordings don’t capture the full dynamics that are at play in Sibelius’s music. The next piece was Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. After the gnarled and tangled Northland, Enlightenment ...

Is Nielsen the new Sibelius? Over Osmo Vänskä’s 19 seasons as Minnesota Orchestra music director, the orchestra became internationally renowned for its interpretations of music by Vänskä's ...

the program will feature Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5. Strauss composed his Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) in 1948 at age 84, setting to music ...