This time, it’s all about identity. When Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra return to New York’s Carnegie Hall next week, they will do so with a stronger certainty about their role in the ...

Sibelius Software on Thursday announced the release of Sibelius 5, a new version of the company’s popular music notation software for Mac OS X and Windows. Various versions exist for professionals and ...

Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony, an unprecedented 22-minute single-movement, contains all the drama of much longer pieces. But it’s also, some say, a symphonic scream. All articles in this series Here’s ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen began the second program in his Sibelius symphony cycle at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night with interesting comments about the Fourth Symphony. He called it the composer’s ...

If the world were a piece of music, it would surely sound like Sibelius. All the curves and jagged edges of the planet seem to be not just reflected, but imbedded, in his work, especially the ...

How often do we read about the alleged folk roots of the great “national” composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries? But how infrequently do musicians and their patrons take any steps to ...

In the second of their three Sibelius Proms, Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony began with Janne, a piece in homage to the Finnish composer by the British composer Michael Finnissy. Finnissy ...

Sibelius Software on Thursday announced the release of Sibelius 5, a new version of the company ’ s popular music notation software for Mac OS X and Windows. Various versions exist for professionals ...

It made a fittingly unorthodox finale to a rule-flouting programme which will have delighted many ears but left some concert purists not just with open mouths, but jaws on the floor. More so than with ...

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