Osmo Vänskä's recordings with the Lahti Symphony of the seven Sibelius symphonies, along with other orchestral works by the Finnish master, put both conductor and orchestra on the musical map.

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 ...

WITH this issue of the last two symphonies, Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen and his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra bring their Naxos recording of the great Finnish cycle to a close. It’s a series ...

Richard Tognetti's critically acclaimed and award-winning direction of our large-scale orchestral concerts are an annual highlight. Under his direction, our Beethoven 9 concerts won Limelight's Best ...

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 ...