The symphonic repertoire is full of music that evokes aquatic environments, from Handel’s “Water Music” to Debussy’s “La Mer” and John Luther Adams’ “Become Ocean.” The Seattle Symphony’s current ...

Some of us have learned the hard way that the symphonies of Sibelius are not to be understood by reference to the standard (i.e. German) models of the genre. Sure, his works contain melodic themes and ...

The hot ticket for classical music lovers this month is a cool Finn: Jean Sibelius, whose 150th birthday is the catalyst for a mini-festival featuring all seven of the Finnish composer’s symphonies ...

Sculpture Of composer Jean Sibelius at the Sibelius Monument in Helsinki, Finland. This is the 150th anniversary year of the birth of Finland's greatest composer, so I bet we'll be hearing a lot of ...

Sibelius, Symphonies No. 3 in C (Opus 52) and No. 5 in E-flat (Opus 82), performed by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (EMI Classics 7243 5 55533 2 4): If anyone conducts Sibelius (or, ...

Weill Hall, the performance centerpiece of the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, has crisp and crystalline acoustics, the sort that let you hear precise details of an orchestral texture ...

But for a 19-year-old American violinist, this week’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert is all Finnish all the time. Alas, at least on Thursday night, Pietari Inkinen proved that a Finnish conductor ...

Thursday at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, the Colorado Symphony features conductor Eun Sun Kim, music director of the San Francisco Opera, as well as pianist Inon Barnatan. The New ...