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JEAN SIBELIUS / CHRISTIAN SINDING
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 / Sinding: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 45 Henning Kraggerud (violin) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Bjarte Engeset, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Oct/2004 ] The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, the son of a doctor, in a small town in the south of Finland, the language and culture of his family being Swedish. It was at school that he was to learn Finnish and acquire his first interest in... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Petri Sakari (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, the son of a doctor, in a small town in the south of Finland. The language and culture of his family, as with others of their class and background at the time, was Swedish |
RICHARD STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SIBELIUS / BRAHMS / WOLF / RACHMANINOV / GRIEG / TOSTI
Jussi Bjorling: Collection Vol. 5: Lieder and Songs (1939-1952) Jussi Bjorling, tenor, with Harry Ebert, piano / Frederick Schauwecker, piano [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] Ulrich Leyendecker was born in Wuppertal in 1946. From 1962 to 1965 he studied composition with Ingo Schmitt, then until 1970 with Rudolf Petzold at the Cologne Musikhochschule, where he also was a piano pupil of Günter Ludwig. |
JEAN SIBELIUS / JACQUES DESBRIERE
Sibelius: Pelleas and Melisande / Desbriere: Sinfonia Tauno Hamalainen (Cor anglais), Timo Mahlamaki (Clarinet), Juha Markkanen (Oboe), Sinfonia Finlandia, Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] The play Pelléas et Mélisande, by the Belgian symbolist poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, had been written in 1892 and first staged in Paris. It attracted the attention of various composers, notably Debussy and Schoenberg. |
JARNEFELT / KASKI / SIBELIUS / RAUTAVAARA / MADETOJA
Finnish Orchestral Favourites Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Jorma Panula. With Maarit Kirvessalo, violin [ Naxos / CD - released 14/May/2002 ] Composers who have all achieved fame in their native Finland |