Sibelius’s mighty Finlandia is a triumphant celebration of the ancient beauty of Finland and the proud independence of her people. "It is as if the Almighty had thrown down pieces of a mosaic from ...

Finnish composer Jean Sibelius wrote seven fine symphonies over the course of about 25 years. This evening on Symphony @ 7, I'll have his first foray into the genre with Symphony No. 1 in E minor. But ...

The composer lived for 33 years after his Symphony No 7 premiered a century ago. But he could never follow it. By Phil Hebblethwaite In the couple of years before he died in 1957, aged 91, the Finnish ...

Stephen Johnson scales the heights of Sibelius's seventh symphony, the culmination of the composer's creative journey as a symphonist. Moving away from the structure of his earlier symphonies, the ...

YOU know when you’ve heard a good Sibelius performance: the accumulating intensity in the music is almost suffocating and pins you to your seat. And it is that very quality that seems largely absent ...