Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra – all-Sibelius concert

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Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra

The Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra conducted by Sasha Mäkilä will perform an all-Sibelius concert twice during August 2026:

– in Helsinki’s Temppeliaukio Church, Friday 14 August at 7 pm;
– in Kerava Church, Wednesday 26 August, 7 pm.

The programme will be:
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia; Rakastava; Symphony No. 5

The Kerava concert takes place one day before the start of the International Sibelius Festival in Lahti, and Sibelius One members who are attending the festival are invited to attend this concert with our group as well.

Tickets € 20 / € 15 (children under 12 free) on the door or from the Holvi online ticket service: https://holvi.com/shop/metorchestra/

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Sibelius One Magazine July 2026

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Sibelius One’s July 2026 magazine is now being sent out to subscribers. Articles in this issue are:

  • Influences on Sibelius’s way of thinking in the 1930s  Veijo Murtomäki 
  • Responding to Tapiola  Paul Harraway
  • Sibelius’s String Quartets  Andrew Barnett
  • Karl Flodin on Sibelius

Please see our Magazine page (click here) for subscription information.

Discography updated 1 June 2026

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Our Sibelius discography has been updated. To download the latest version (free of charge) please click here: Sibelius_Discography_20260601. More information on this project and other new release listings: click here for our Discography and Recordings page.

Original version of the Fifth Symphony published

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The score of the original four-movement version of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony has been published for the first time in Breitkopf & Härtel’s ongoing JSW Complete Works critical edition.

Sibelius completed his Fifth Symphony for the concert arranged to celebrate his 50th birthday on 8 December 1915. The reception of the symphony was very positive, but nonetheless Sibelius revised the work twice: first for a concert arranged in Turku exactly one year later, and then again in 1918–19. The present volume contains the 1915 version. The autograph score of the version is lost, but the orchestral parts survive and the score in this volume has been reconstructed from the parts.

The volume is edited by JSW editor-in-chief Timo Virtanen.

Click here to read our review
of this volume.

SON 641 · EAN: 9790004803967 · Price €187.00
Further details and order information: https://www.breitkopf.com/en/work/6198/9790004803967/complete-works-jsw

Sibelius at BBC Proms 2026

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Sibelius is represented at the BBC Proms 2026 by only two works – the Violin Concerto and Second Symphony, both perennial favourites. They are conducted by two of Finland’s foremost conductors and the soloist in the Violin Concerto won the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2025.

The Proms season runs from 17 July until 12 September. General booking opens on 16 May. Every Prom will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds and many will also be broadcast on BBC TV and iPlayer.

Tuesday 21 July 2026 / 18:00 / Royal Albert Hall
Betsy Jolas: Tales of a Summer Sea (UK premiere)
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Sueye Park, violin
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / John Storgårds

Tuesday 28 July 2026 / 19:00 / Royal Albert Hall
Mark‐Anthony Turnage: Festen Suite (UK premiere)
Benjamin Britten: Cello Symphony
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Guy Johnston, cello
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo

More information: https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/composers/691b0e9d-9e57-41cf-932d-a3d21b068e75

Sibelius Snookered and the Spice Sibelius

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New and exclusive from Sibelius One, released 1 April 2026:

Sibelius Snooker Ball Set

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Hone your skills at cue sports, experiment with synaesthesia while at the same time enjoying your passion for the music of Sibelius with the limited edition Sibelius Snooker Ball Set, from Sibelius One!

The cue ball is silent but each of the coloured balls plays a note from the musical scale. Hit them in the right order to recreate your own Sibelius masterpiece! (Flat and sharp notes can be adjusted via a phone app.)

Warning: strike the balls in the wrong order and the resulting music may not sound like Sibelius.

Sibelius Pepper Mill

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Combine your love for well-seasoned food with your respect for Sibelius with the limited edition Sibelius Pepper Mill, from Sibelius One!

Turn Sibelius’s head to grind the pepper, which emerges from his feet. The head is removable for the purposes of refilling. The action of turning the head activates a mini-loudspeaker that plays the Musette from King Christian II.

A spring-loaded mechanism automatically returns the head to the default position after use.

Click here for order information.

Discography updated 21 March 2026

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Our Sibelius discography has been updated. To download the latest version (free of charge) please click here: Sibelius_Discography_20260321. More information on this project and other new release listings: click here for our Discography and Recordings page.

Sibelius One Magazine, January 2026

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Sibelius One’s January 2026 magazine has been published and  is currently being sent out to subscribers. Articles in this issue are:

  • Sibelius as a Representative of the Finnish Right in the 1920s and early 1930s
    Veijo Murtomäki
  • Sibelius at 160: Torchlight Procession in Järvenpää
  • The Mystery of Jean Sibelius’s Eighth Symphony  David Revilla Velasco
  • A Day in Western Uusimaa  Folke Gräsbeck
  • First Impressions (Lahti 2025)  Frank Cross

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New Year Quiz 2026: Sibelius General Knowledge

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Sibelius One New Year’s Quiz 2026

Try our Sibelius General Knowledge quiz – 25 questions on a wide range of topics related to the composer. Free and open to all! Click here for the quiz – good luck and Happy New Year 2026.