Finnish composer Jean Sibelius incorporated Finland's main folk legend, the Kalevala, into his music. The Karelia region was in the Russian-occupied part of Finland, and it's also the setting of many ...

I was on Irondequoit Drive in Rochester, N.Y., driving an old MG-TD in September 1957 when I heard the news of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ death at age 91 and had to pull over. If a boyhood ...

Jean Sibelius’s Karelia Suite pulses with the spirit of Finnish pride. Inspired by the rugged landscapes and folklore of Karelia—a region central to Finland’s cultural identity—the music is bold, ...

It wasn’t so long ago that the conventional wisdom had smugly relegated Sibelius (1865-1957) to the status of provincial nationalist, or worse, last-of-the-line wheezing remnant of the defunct ...

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Sibelius used music to express his deep love of his homeland at a time when Finland was under Russian control. The Atlanta Symphony plays the closing movement of Sibelius' Karelia Suite. Yoel Levi ...

The third volume of Inkinen’s Sibelius cycle with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra boasts the same sure interpretative instincts, warm-hearted playing and excellent sound as its predecessors.

On Saturday, 24 January, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ahmed El-Saedi will dedicate its programme to the Finnish composer Johan Julius Christian Sibelius Celebrating the 150th anniversary ...

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He was one of the great musical visionaries of the 20th century and his symphonies revitalised a tradition that was close to collapsing under its own expressive weight. There are few of us who haven’t ...