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All that’s after intermission. The concert opening belongs to the international touring star Midori, playing Jean Sibelius’ ...

It wasn’t until 1904, with the concertos of Sibelius and Alexander Glazunov, that the popularity of the violin concerto took off again; these two major concertos were soon followed by those of Bartók, ...

The last movement was once described (by Donald Tovey) as “a polonaise for polar bears,” and the whole piece seems to glisten with the ice of Sibelius’s native Finland, but the concerto’s ...

Conductor Joseph Swensen expressed his delight in programming this Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert mainly devoted to ...

It’s the climax of a programme also featuring the song of fire and ice that is Sibelius’s captivating Violin Concerto. The concert opens with the charming and typically French Little Suite by ...

Music by Jean Sibelius and Dmitri Shostakovich was featured in the Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s Masterworks Series concert on ...

From its haunting opening clarinet solo to the intense energy of the finale, Sibelius’ Symphony No.1 is a favourite with many classical ... This evening, Lawrence Power, one of today’s foremost viola ...