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 ...

Classical Music aficionados have likely noted that Finnish music and the name of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius have been popping up with unusual frequency. That’s likely because this year marks the ...

(The) Thought (Tanken) Kristian Attila, Piano Pia Freund, Soprano Jean Sibelius, Composer Tommi Hakala, Baritone (7) Songs, Movements: To evening (1898: wds. A. V. Forsman-Koskimies) Jean Sibelius, ...

Composer Jean Sibelius is a hero to all Finns, most Englishmen and many Americans. His music is heavy enough to sound profound—something like the work of a rural and obstinate Brahms. It seemed ...

The Sibelius Group has announced the Mac OS X release of Sibelius 2, its music notation software. The developer said that its software is the first music notation software to be released natively for ...

THE BASICS: THE TEMPEST, the play by Shakespeare, directed by Fortunato Pezzimenti for the Irish Classical Theatre Company (ICTC), in collaboration with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) ...

Luonnotar Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam, Conductor Soile Isokoski, Soprano Jean Sibelius, Composer (6) Songs, Movements: The echo nymph (wds. Kyösti: 1915) Leif Segerstam, Conductor ...

As native to Finland as its fjords and forests, its long dark winters and its northern lights is Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius. But not until last winter in Helsingfors did this aging ...

It feels as if the goodbye has begun. Now, whenever Osmo Vänskä strides to the podium at Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall to conduct a symphony by his favorite composer, Jean Sibelius, audience members may ...

He mystified his Finnish countrymen with an unstoppable flow of compositions. He was also, one journalist said, “an alarming person to interview.” By Adam Nossiter As the orchestra searches for a new ...