Finzi's Violin Concerto might be called a one-movement wonder. The opening Allegro meanders tediously on mediocre material, so much so that Finzi himself wanted it discarded. The final movement, ...

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs two works by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, alongside Sibelius's second symphony. Jonathan Swain presents. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs two ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In an evening of deeply expressive repertoire, the Utah Symphony brings Sibelius' ...

For an organization that has gone through the sort of near-death experience from which the Minnesota Orchestra narrowly escaped in recent years, the orchestra’s newly completed cycle of the Sibelius ...

So thorough is an immersion into the world of Jean Sibelius offered by Seattle Symphony in coming weeks that a drinking-age patron will be able to sample the Finnish composer’s favorite cocktail in ...

This disc, coupling two sharply contrasting works, is the second installment in Osmo Vänskä's projected set of Jean Sibelius' seven symphonies, on the Sibelius-smitten Swedish label Bis, with the ...

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 ...

Last year I made the decision to take a break from conducting over the summer of 2017. The previous few seasons had been exhausting as I flew constantly back and forth between New York, Jacksonville ...

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 ...

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 ...