Sibelius
Sibelius: Rakastava
by Alan George
Sibelius: Symphonies No. 6 & No. 7 (ESO Records)
A successful launch for a new Sibelius cycle [JQ]
Sir Adrian Boult: The Warner Classics Edition (Warner Classics)
A 36-CD remastered box that restores (almost) all Boult’s mono legacy for the Warner umbrella of labels [JW]
Brahms, Britten, Elgar & Sibelius: Violin Concertos (ICA Classics)
A concerto quartet from Ida Haendel’s BBC broadcasts spanning nearly 25 years [JW]
Thomas Jensen (conductor) Legacy Vol. 24 (Danacord)
The final release in this 24-volume series produces an unreleased Sibelius 6, Jensen the accompanist and a broad-ranging miscellany of Danish Works. [JW]
Sibelius: Symphonies 3 & 6, Stravinsky: Violin Concerto (Avie)
(Déjà Review) A wonderful testament to the talents of the Northern Sinfonia [CC]
Pictures from Finland (Chandos)
Thoroughly enjoyable if not especially memorable [DJB]
Sibelius: Luonnotar and Orchestral Songs (Ondine)
(Déjà Review) This is a glorious disc that will delight lovers of Scandinavian song as well as Sibelians everywhere [RB]
Pictures from Finland (Chandos)
An enjoyable, well performed disc with not much originality or interest [BSt]
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) Complete Stereo Recordings on Warner Classics
Beecham’s stereo discography in a sturdy box albeit largely in pre-existing remasterings [JW]
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) Complete Stereo Recordings on Warner Classics
A Beecham stereo treasury from the 1950s in wonderful sound [LM]
Sibelius: Symphony 5 (Ondine)
Clear, cool, lucid performances, short on passion but interpretatively consistent and coherent [RMo]
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (Ondine)
High quality performances of well-known and less familiar Sibelius. [DHa]
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
by Alan George
Folk Trails: Anya Alexeyev (Toccata Next)
Works from three continents, inspired by folk music, played on a concert grand [EJW]
Sibelius and Barber: Violin Concertos (Erato)
Capuçon is ponderous in Sibelius but well attuned to Barber [LW]
Sibelius: String Quartet ‘Voces Intimae’
by Alan George
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Vänskä has made me hear this pieces anew [LM]
Jascha Horenstein (conductor): Horenstein in Venezuela Vol 1 (Pristine Audio)
A specialist but intriguing release showing a great conductor working, as it were, off the beaten track [JQ]
Sibelius: Symphonies 6 & 7 (Alpha Classics)
Superb accounts of Sibelius’ last two symphonies put the seal on a triumphantly successful series [RMo]
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Chandos)
This is a disc that no lover of Sibelius will want to miss [WH]
Schumann: Symphony No 4 & Sibelius: Symphony No 1 (SWR Classic)
Masterly direction in live performances of two disparate symphonies, in which orchestral tone is not always the most opulent, but the spirit is invariably right [RMo]
Sun Forest Lake (Candle Row Press)
A perceptive study of Sibelius and his key orchestral works [JQ]
Candlelight Carols – Christmas with Allmänna Sången (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Riches galore on this disc [GF]
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