Jean Sibelius became a composer only after failing to achieve his dream of playing violin with the Vienna Philharmonic. Instead of becoming a violin star, he composed one of the most treasured pieces ...

Renowned Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä interprets music of Finland’s greatest musical export, Jean Sibelius. Full of soaring, majestic melodies, Sibelius’s First Symphony was his most lushly romantic, ...

There was a time, in his twenties, when, if he’d been asked the question "What’s your occupation?" Sibelius would have answered, "Violinist". Having studied the violin from fairly early on, he soon ...

The South Florida Symphony Orchestra will present a classical music concert featuring works by Dvořák, Sibelius, and Schubert ...

Sibelius's only concerto was both a passionate outburst and a farewell to romanticism. Here, Leif Segerstam and Tasmin Little take us inside the concerto. The Conductor's View, by Leif Segerstam: ...

The violin concertos by Sibelius and Schoenberg are two of the greatest of the 20th century. But where the Sibelius has been firmly established in the repertory and widely performed for more than half ...

Two months ago at the Barbican in London, Lisa Batiashvili was the soloist in the UK premiere of the violin concerto that Magnus Lindberg completed for her last year. It seemed, then, to be a major ...