In our exploration of the seven Sibelius symphonies, the Symphony No. 4 is the darkest and most turbulent. Sibelius had broken away from his romantic mood and let dark thoughts pervade this work.
A taste of what's to come in the BBC Symphony Orchestra 17-18 season at the Barbican ...
No opera company faces a more formidable task than commissioning a new opera, assembling the forces needed to bring it to fruition and nursing it through the long and sometimes painful process leading ...
Music Director Leonard Slatkin leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the North American premiere of Ferran Cruixent's "Cyborg" (and yes, there is on-stage gadgetry involved!); the North American ...
The Columbus Symphony performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Sibelius Symphony no. 2 and Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, Friday and Saturday night at 8 in the Ohio Theater. My pre ...
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 ...
In 1935, a decade after Jean Sibelius published what would be the last of his works for orchestra, a poll organized by the New York Philharmonic found him not only more popular than the Three B’s — ...
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