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, ...

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 ...

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' ...

French pianist Alexandre Kantorow's emotional Wagner encore leaves Davies Symphony Hall spellbound in a powerful San ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italy-born, German-American Augustin Hadelich, if not yet a household name, is very probably the planet’s most booked ...

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 ...

The people of Finland and the Finnish government were so appreciative of the music Jean Sibelius (b. Dec. 8, 1865) composed honoring the nature, history and mythology of his homeland that he was given ...