Make it the sole aim and the tension between surface gesture and deep structure is lost, and with it the essence of the Sibelius idiom. This point already impinges in the middle of the first movement ...

Osmo Vänskä’s new Sibelius cycle continues with the First and Fourth, a pairing he evidently likes, as that is how he started his previous cycle in Lahti. As I noted with Nos 2 and 5 (4/12), Vänskä’s ...

Undoubtedly the most famous composer ever to come out of Finland, Jean Sibelius (pronounced Zhaa(ng) Sib-ayli-uss) completed seven amazing symphonies and a host of vivid descriptive music using ...

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo in a programme which includes Dora Pejačević’s Symphony in F sharp minor. Penny Gore presents. 12:31 AM Jean Sibelius ( ...

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 fellow Finn ...

performances of three symphonies meant the most. Shostakovich’s Fifth, Schubert’s Ninth and Sibelius’ Second may be old chestnuts but not for players who were mostly under 25 and as young as 10.