Esa-Pekka Salonen began the second program in his Sibelius symphony cycle at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night with interesting comments about the Fourth Symphony. He called it the composer’s ...
His symphonies didn't just brilliantly capture the ghostliness of the Finnish landscape – they were also way ahead of their time. Tom Service meets six conductors discovering Sibelius anew Sibelius's ...
The second concert marking this year’s Sibelius anniversary featured a fluent if unremarkable account of his Third and Fourth symphonies, while the Violin Concerto didn’t reach out in the way the ...
The summation of Sibelian sonorities held in the Seventh Symphony, ceasing on a note of sublime release from the preceding tensions, seems apposite to the composer's creative career. Yan Pascal ...
How often do we read about the alleged folk roots of the great “national” composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries? But how infrequently do musicians and their patrons take any steps to ...
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