A new week - a new composer. Apart from Sibelius I dont know too much about Finnish music - so lets have a week of Sibelius and his Finnish friends. To start us off here is one on the outstanding works, in my opinion, of the 20th century played by the incredible Joshua Bell Sibelius was a violinist and I think his love for homeland and his instrument shine through this incredible concerto youtu.be/ITTbY1n3Iz8 If you want to read a bit more about Sibelius checkout: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius Here is Wikipedias list of Finnish Composer - I have to confess the only name I recognise is Esa-Pekka Salonen and I hadnt realised he was a composer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Finnish_composers Please share well known and less well know music by Sibelius and if you should know music by any other Finnish Composers that would be really interesting.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:11:54 +0000
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