The program hardly increased the chances for revelation: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 — two works deeply ingrained in the history of the Kimmel’s ...

This weekend, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is performing a Sibelius doubleheader (a chamber piece and Symphony No. 7) with a Beethoven piano concerto (No. 2) and the St. Louis premiere of a ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Sibelius ★★★★★ In 1940 the American composer and critic Virgil Thomson couldn’t see the point of Sibelius. “Vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial beyond all description.” That was ...

The piece is widely acknowledged as one of the more technically demanding works for violin. The WASO and Asher Fisch are no ...

The concert’s first half was devoted to Sibelius’ Sixth Symphony, one of the least performed of the composer’s seven. In the first act of Die Walküre, Siegmund, fleeing from a gang’s ...

Naomi Wilkinson explores Sibelius's ode to Finland with facts, insight and animation. Sibelius loved Finland. One of his most beloved works is Finlandia, which is about the Finnish people ...

THE City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) will launch this year’s Harrogate Music Festival with a grand opening night ...

Is Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" a work of genius or a predictable banality? Whatever your opinion, DeKalb Symphony played it ...

The Sibelius symphony had its powerful moments, too, whether every textural detail was precise or not. The first movement had all the requisite grandeur, with the OAE horns to the fore ...

To most people Sibelius is the composer of Finlandia and the Karelia Suite; to others he is one of the great symphony composers; to the people of Finland he is these things and a national hero. While ...

And a loud fan at the back of the hall was distracting. The Sibelius conforms to no established symphonic structures, but it’s organically outdoorsy in a way immediately identifiable as Sibelius.

The DeKalb Symphony Orchestra has found a new sense of vitality and a fuller, more cohesive sound under the command of maestro Paul Bhasin. It has also found its niche on the brighter end of the ...