Roald Dahl, beloved children's author, and Jean Sibelius, master of incidental music, meet in a concert for the whole family, narrated in Finnish. Ville encounters a dangerous creature in the forest ...

Brisk is the word: Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall. Rouvali’s approach to his countryman Sibelius’ fifth symphony was, perhaps, a little more measured. Typically ‘Sibelian’, it’s a work of ...

Columbia’s most recent operatic album set (No. 8) is a breezily appropriate item for warm weather: “The Barber of Seville.” When “The Barber” is performed with a touch of frivolity, it becomes perhaps ...

When the London Symphony Orchestra opened their 2005-6 season in September with Sibelius’ Kullervo symphony, I was startled by the composer’s sense of the dramatic, something I don’t always associate ...