Conductor Richard Gill leads the Sydney Sinfonia through an exploration of the exquisite Valse triste by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius and the 1st movement (Allegretto) from his Symphony No 2 in D, ...
Après un siècle d'exécutions mauvaises avec des combinaisons bizarres, nous ne pouvons presque plus nous imaginer à quel point la première exécution de la «Valse Triste», de Jean Sibelius, a dû être ...
Sometimes the simple things say the most. The encore selection at the end of the Minnesota Orchestra’s performance was the famous little trifle, Valse Triste by Jean Sibelius. This was a sensible ...
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 ...
Born in southern Finland in 1865, Jean Sibelius’ music helped to define Finnish national identity for many in the 19th and 20th centuries, as the country struggled for independence against the Russian ...
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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 ...
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