The latest edition of Sibelius One’s magazine has been released and is being posted out to subscribers. This issue focuses in particular on Sibelius’s relationship with the violin.

Articles included in the magazine are as follows:

• ‘Many congratulate me on getting to play on a Stainer’ – ­Sibelius’s Violin  Andrew Barnett
• The Eleventh Inter­natio­nal Jean Sibelius Violin Competition  Leon Chia 
• ‘Playing to him was so natural that I didn’t really realize that it could have been con­sidered as something very special.’  An Interview with Satu Jalas
• ‘How could anyone play that and not want to discover more?’  Five violinists discuss Sibelius’s music for their instrument 
• Burmester, Nováček and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto  Timo Virtanen
• The Sixth International Jean Sibelius Conference  Hilary Finch
• The Sixth Sibelius Lecture  An extract from the novel ‘The Seven Symphonies: A Finnish Murder Mystery’ by Simon Boswell 
• Widespread they stand…  Peter Frankland discusses ‘Tapiola’ 

Information about previous issues: click here.