Plongée dans les fjörds finlandais

By Lucie Pierron, 22 October 2015

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“L’orchestre mêle à merveille les moments intimes et les tuttis.”

Reviewed at The European Krzysztof Penderecki Center for Music, Luslawice on 17 October 2015

Sibelius, En Saga, a symphonic poem for orchestra, Op.9

Kuusisto, Violin Concerto

Sibelius, Symphony no. 3 in C major, Op.52

Sinfonia Lahti

Okko Kamu, Conductor

Elina Vähälä, Violin

Finnish mythology brought to life as the Sibelius Festival opens

Peter Connors, 28th August

Kullervo opens the 26th Sibelius Festival in Lahti, but the new edition brings a big change: not all the music will is by Sibelius!

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Sibelius Festival in Lahti opens with Swanwhite rarity

Peter Connors, 6th September

Baiba Skride gripped the audience in Sibelius's Violin Concerto in the opening concert of this year's Sibelius Festival in Lahti, along with some rarities by the composer.

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Kamu closes Lahti's Sibelius 2015 Festival in style

Roy Westbrook, 5th September

The Festival Director gives himself the onerous task of conducting four of the more elusive masterworks.

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Graceful and light of wing: Okko Kamu's Sibelius

Rohan Shotton, 18th February

Okko Kamu conducts the Hallé in Strauss' Don Juan, Grieg's Piano Concerto with Alexander Gavrylyuk, and Sibelius' Fifth Symphony at the Bridgewater Hall

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Kamu closes Lahti's Sibelius 2015 Festival in style

Roy Westbrook, 5th September

The Festival Director gives himself the onerous task of conducting four of the more elusive masterworks.

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The BBCSO graces the Lahti Festival

Roy Westbrook, 3rd September

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, escaping Proms duty, perform the second of two concerts at Lahti's Sibelius Festival.

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Lucie Pierron

Étudiante en sociologie et en sciences politiques, pianiste et choriste, Lucie n’a jamais cessé de s’intéresser à la musique classique et contemporaine. Actuellement en Pologne, elle réalise une étude sur les nouvelles salles de musique classique qui ont ouvertes depuis 2011.