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 ...

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 ...