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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.