Our January 2018 magazine is being printed and will be sent out to subscribers within a few days.
Click here for more information about this and previous issues of our magazine.
Merry Christmas
Best wishes for a very happy Christmas and prosperous new year from Sibelius One!
We hope that you’ll be able to join us for the 2018 Sibelius Festival in Lahti. Dates and programmes have now been announced, and it’ll be an exciting event including a visit from Neeme Järvi and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra – so if you’re interested, please get in touch and make a provisional reservation. Click here for more information about Lahti 2018.
And why not treat yourself and your friends to an extra Christmas present? We recommend our new CD with Hedvig Paulig (winner of the 2011 International Sibelius Singing Competition) and Folke Gräsbeck – hear this superb singer on top form in an all-Sibelius programme. As a member, you even get a discount! Click here for more information about the CD.
Magazine, January 2018
The January 2018 issue of Sibelius One’s full-colour magazine is currently in preparation, with a selection of articles and contributions from eminent authors and scholars plus a listing of major new CD releases. Subscribers will receive the magazine in January.
To receive your magazine, make sure you select the ‘printed copies’ option when joining Sibelius One (just £5 for two issues).
If you would like to add the magazine to your existing subscription, or to purchase individual copies (£5 each plus postage – also available to non-members) please contact info@sibeliusone.com
Highlights of the forthcoming issue:
- Sibelius’s music for ‘Everyman’ Eija Kurki
- Sibelius and Busoni Ernest Pauwels
- The Spell of Italy John Grimshaw
- Jean Sibelius. Un Finlandais en France Peter Frankland
- And the Sounds are Godlike: The Symphonies of Sibelius (Part Two) Leon Chia
Discography updated 11 December 2017
The ongoing Sibelius discography project has received another update. To download the latest version (free) click here: Sibelius_Discography_2017-12-11. For more information on the discography project and recent releases see our Discography & Recordings page.
Lahti Sibelius Festival 2018
Programmes and artists – including a guest orchestra and conductor – have been announced for the 2018 Lahti Sibelius Festival.
For more information about the music and about Sibelius One’s group visit to the festival, click here.
Finland 100
Sibelius One congratulates the Republic of Finland on its centenary, 6 December 2017.
Dedicated to Sibelius
At the initiative of Sibelius One members Doug Whittet and Rob Ebbers, a list is being compiled of musical works dedicated to Jean Sibelius.
The current list is shown below. If you know of additions or other relevant information, please contact Doug Whittet by e-mail (click here).
The list will be updated periodically as new information becomes available.
To download the list as an Excel document, click here.
| Composer | Work | Year | Recording | Comment |
| Bax, Arnold | Symphony No. 5 | 1932 | London Philharmonic Orchestra / Raymond Leppard (Lyrita) | |
| Busoni, Ferruccio | Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 34a | 1905 | BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Neeme Järvi (Chandos) | 4 movements each with different dedicatee (1st to JS) |
| Constant, Marius | Hämeenlinna: An Imaginary Landscape | 1990 | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergiu Comissiona (Ondine) | |
| Englund, Einar | Ciacona | 1990 | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergiu Comissiona (Ondine) | |
| Josephs, Wilfred | In the North | 1990 | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergiu Comissiona (Ondine) | |
| Melartin, Erkki | The Melancholy Garden (for piano), Op. 54 | 1908 | Izumi Tateno (Ondine) | |
| Merikanto, Aarre | Theme, Variations & Fugue for orchestra | 1915 | None? | No commercial recording? |
| Musgrave, Thea | Song of the Enchanter | 1990 | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergiu Comissiona (Ondine) | |
| Nørgård, Per | Aftonland (Songs from Evening Land) | 1956 | Helene Gjerris et al. (Dacapo) | |
| Picker, Tobias | Séance | 1990 | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergiu Comissiona (Ondine) | |
| Rak, Štěpán | Elegy for solo guitar | 1987 | Štěpán Rak (Nimbus) | |
| Ruders, Poul | Tundra | 1990 | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergiu Comissiona (Ondine) | |
| Söderlind, Ragnar | Symphony No. 8 (Sibelius in memoriam) | 2005 | Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Fedoseyev (YouTube concert recording) | Quotes from Surusoitto; no commercial recording |
| Stenhammar, Wilhelm | String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 25 | 1907 | Stenhammar Quartet (BIS) | |
| Tüür, Erkki-Sven | Searching for Roots | 1990 | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Paavo Järvi (Virgin) | |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Symphony No. 5 in D major | 1943 | Over 30 available! | |
| Yuasa, Joji | The Midnight Sun | 1990 | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergiu Comissiona (Ondine) |
Lahti Sibelius Festival 2017 Review
The Eighteenth International Lahti Sibelius Festival coincided with the centenary year of Finland’s political independence. In a previous year forty percent of tickets were sold to non-Finnish patrons, so its claim of international status is well justified. As usual concert tickets and hotel accommodation had been arranged at a special price for Sibelius One members. Click here to read the full review by Geoff Hayes.
Discography updated 30 Oct 2017
The ongoing Sibelius discography project has received another update. To download the latest version (free) click here: Sibelius Discography_20171030. For more information on the discography project and recent releases see our Discography & Recordings page.
Coming soon from JSW
Announced as a forthcoming release in Breitkopf & Härtel’s JSW critical edition is a volume of music for solo instrument and piano.
Series IV, Vol 6 is edited by Anna Pulkkis and will include:
Two Pieces, Op. 2 violin & piano
Malinconia, Op. 20 cello & piano
Two Serious Melodies, Op. 77 violin/cello & piano
Four Pieces, Op. 78 violin/cello & piano
Six Pieces, Op. 79 violin & piano
Sonatina in E major, Op. 80 violin & piano
Five Pieces, Op. 81 violin & piano
Novellette, Op. 102 violin & piano
Five Danses champêtres, Op. 106 violin & piano
Four Pieces, Op. 115 violin & piano
Three Pieces, Op. 116 violin & piano
These works represent Sibelius’s complete opus-numbered output for violin/cello and piano, from the early Op. 2 pieces (revised around the time of the Fourth Symphony) through to his last opus-numbered pieces from 1929. Many of the pieces, including the famous Romance in F major (Op. 78 No. 2) date from the period of the First World War.