Sibelius, J.: Night Ride and Sunrise / Belshazzar's Feast Suite / Kuolema

Featuring

Pietari Inkinen
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Jean Sibelius

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Recording & Production

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1946, performs over a hundred concerts annually and has an extensive catalogue of CD recordings, including a commitment to record at least one CD of New Zealand music each year.

Performer Biography

Pietari Inkinen, the conductor on this album, began his tenure as Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in January 2008 and is also an accomplished violinist, playing a Carlo Bergonzi violin.

Composer Biography

Sibelius received a government stipend for ten years, later converted to a lifelong pension, after being passed over for a professorship at the University of Helsinki in favor of Robert Kajanus, founder of Helsinki's first professional orchestra.

Composer Biography

Jean Sibelius, a Finnish composer, was born in 1865 to a Swedish-speaking family and learned Finnish at school, where he also developed an interest in his country's early legends.

Recording & Production

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has a strong relationship with Naxos, recording diverse repertoire, with over one million of their CDs sold internationally in the last decade.

Composer Biography

After completing his seventh symphony in 1924, Sibelius wrote an eighth symphony in 1929 but destroyed it, remaining largely silent for the last 25 years of his life.

Composer Biography

Sibelius initially aimed to be a violinist but his compositional gifts outweighed his performing abilities, leading him to study composition in Berlin and Vienna.