It’s with them that Lewis performs Sibelius’s iconic Violin Concerto in Edinburgh and Glasgow in January. It’s one of the repertoire’s most powerful and most passionately adored violin ...

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Show more Tom McKinney introduces performance from this week's orchestra in focus, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales including a stunning account of Sibelius's Violin Concerto alongside music by ...

t’s modern, but not academic. In fact, it reminded me of both the Sibelius Violin Concerto and Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto (especially that finale). oth of those concertos are well known ...

Two concertos that had rarely been heard before were performed back-to-back at St John’s Church and GD Birla Sabhaghar ...

Movie composers have the gift of establishing an emotion in the most economical manner, and that’s what I heard in Tim Fain’s concerto. At the start, it reminded me of the Sibelius Violin ...

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 ...

His first violin teacher was Geza Szilvay at the ... awarded a special prize for the best performance of Jean Sibelius' violin concerto. He has won other prizes, has concertized widely and ...