Jean Sibelius is a specialty of the house at Orchestra Hall. Over the course of Osmo Vänskä's 19 years as music director, the Minnesota Orchestra's interpretations of Finland's national composer have ...

One of classical music’s great anthems is a spectacular ode to a composer’s home country and its people. In April 2024, an audience of 5,000 was left in awe by the mighty sound of one of classical ...

It’s easy to imagine Hilary Hahn having this weekend circled on her calendar. For her lone American concerts of the winter, the renowned violinist is performing Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto with a ...

This disc, coupling two sharply contrasting works, is the second installment in Osmo Vänskä's projected set of Jean Sibelius' seven symphonies, on the Sibelius-smitten Swedish label Bis, with the ...

The songs for voice and orchestra by Sibelius are only rarely encountered. Thursday night at Severance Hall, baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside presented a bouquet of eight varied songs by Sibelius that ...

John Storgårds joins the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for a programme of Scandinavian music, painting a portrait of the far ...

Kristiina Poska conducts the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Sibelius' two last symphonies. In between, Christian Ihle Hadland performs Shostakovich's energetic Concerto for Piano and Trumpet with the ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- The Minnesota Orchestra and former music director Osmo Vänskä received a GRAMMY award Sunday for their recording of Jean Sibelius' First and Fourth Symphonies. The award is the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ever since its stunning concert hall opened in 2000, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra has hosted a Sibelius ...