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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music Vol 1 (Includes Piano Sonata in F major, Op. 12 & 10 Pieces Op.24 ) Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2001 ] "Distinguished playing and the best performances and recording I have heard of this repertoire." - Robert Layton, BBC Music Magazine, Feb 2000 |
JEAN SIBELIUS / EDWARD ELGAR
Sibelius/Elgar: Violin Concertos Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "even if it were at full price it would feature quite high in the current lists" - Penguin Guide |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Songs, Vol. 1 Hannu Jurmu (tenor) / Jouni Somero (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] The best of the songs are essentially nature pieces, dark-hued, vividly characterized, intensely melancholic and vocally demanding. Sibelius considered them to represent his "innermost self". |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Songs, Vol. 2 Hannu Jurmu (tenor) / Jouni Somero (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] Although Sibelius wrote around a hundred songs over a period of more than thirty years - mainly settings of Swedish texts, with eight in German and only a handful in Finnish - they have suffered comparative neglect alongside his larger-scale... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music Vol 3 (Includes Ten Piano Pieces Op.58) Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2001 ] "Norwegian performers shine on discs devoted to piano music by Sibelius with Havard Gimse? Gimse, perhaps Norway's most gifted emerging pianist, keeps the music very much alive." - Turok's Choice, December 2001 |
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 / 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 SACD / SACD - released 26/Aug/2005 ] "Here's a well-balanced Finno-Norwegian disc that presents a major concerto leavened by a shorter work for violin and orchestra." MusicWeb |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music Vol. 5 (Incls 5 Characteristic Impressions, Op. 103 ) Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Aug/2004 ] "Havard Gimse has proved a sensitive and imaginative advocate of this repertoire and here he is at his distinguished best. A highly recommendable and rewarding issue." BBC Music |