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 ...
It’s the climax of a programme also featuring the song of fire and ice that is Sibelius’s captivating Violin Concerto. The concert opens with the charming and typically French Little Suite 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 ...
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 ...