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 Houston Symphony continues its celebration of Sibelius’ 150th birthday with his tone poem, The Bard, and his soaring Symphony No. 1. Acclaimed Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs not one, but ...

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It’s a good day when an audience receives the gift of hearing an unfamiliar but haunting work by an unfamiliar but brilliant composer. Add to that one of the most beautiful violin concertos ever ...

The third part of The Philharmonic Orchestra’s complete cycle of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ seven symphonies was a bit of unfinished business left over from the Covid-19 pandemic. Having ...

The school year will come to a musical end at the annual Spring Symphony concert. The UCLA Symphony will perform two symphonic and orchestral works at Schoenberg Hall on Wednesday. The concert will ...

Sibelius took three attempts at his 50th birthday symphony, finishing it in 1919. Classic FM's favourite recording of the piece was made in the swinging sixties. Jean Sibelius composed his Fifth ...

Finnish-born Inkinen is chief conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: together they made a good impression on their first two Sibelius CDs, devoted to lighter pieces. With this disc they ...

If one work could be said to characterize Jean Sibelius' mature style, it is the Fifth Symphony. The first movement grows organically, from nebulous beginnings and the majestic emergence of a theme of ...

Tenor Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), soprano Karita Mattila (Sieglinde) and bass Raymond Aceto (Hunding) performed in Act 1 of Wagner's 'Die Walküre,' with Robert Spano conducting the Fort Worth ...

Through the bitter cold and a frightful rise in omicron case numbers, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sibelius Festival continued in its second magnificent week, after opening with a joyful celebration New ...