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Transported to the Land of the Midnight Sun: BSO Performs Sibelius, Nielsen, and Tarkiainen

The Harvard Crimson 19 Mar 2024
After the intermission, they played three tone poems by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius ... In Sibelius’s “Tapiola,” which draws inspiration from the Finnish national epic “Kalevala,” the BSO once again returned to the forests of Finland.
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Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller review – hair-raising climaxes and soaring operatic intensity

The Observer 10 Oct 2022
Some of Sibelius’s best known tone poems, such as En Saga and Tapiola, were naturally included, alongside pieces that are far less often heard such as The Bard, enigmatic and introspective, and Night ...
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Oslo Philharmonic/ Makela review — young conductor lives up to the hype in spellbinding Proms debut

The Times/The Sunday Times 15 Aug 2022
★★★★★ ... He recently said that he eats “four or five bananas” on a concert day ... Finnish music from mythic forests set us off — Sibelius’s Tapiola ... .
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Prom 35: Oslo Philharmonic/Mäkelä review – breathtaking Yuja Wang reveals new depths to Liszt

The Observer 14 Aug 2022
Sibelius’s Tapiola and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. Gaunt, bleak and an unsetting piece with which to start, Sibelius’s evocation of the vast Finnish forests was eerie and disquieting, its organic ...
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Prom 34: BBCPhil/Ollikainen review – Thorvaldsdottir’s study in sonority is impressive and engaging

The Observer 12 Aug 2022
Easier to detect in the background of ARCHORA is the influence of Sibelius – one brief passage of wintry string swirls could have come straight from Tapiola – and Ollikainen went on to end her concert ...
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Sibelius: The Symphonies and Tapiola review – Mäkelä veers between the outstanding and prosaic

The Observer 24 Mar 2022
The Seventh is followed by the last of Sibelius’s tone poems, Tapiola, revisiting the chilly landscapes explored in that symphony, and also by three fragments, less than four minutes of music ...
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