Jean Sibelius, a skilled violinist himself, once considered pursuing a career as a soloist before becoming a composer.
Recording & Production
The Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, founded in 1974 with 95 musicians, aims to bring classical music to everyone, everywhere, including unusual venues like hospitals and prisons.
Performer Biography
Simone Lamsma, the Dutch violinist, began playing at age 5 and made her professional stage debut at 14 as a guest soloist with the North Netherlands Orchestra.
Performer Biography
Case Scaglione, the American conductor, is the music director and principal conductor of the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France and also the principal conductor of the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn.
Historical Context
In 1905, the year the revised version of Sibelius's Violin Concerto premiered, Albert Einstein published his famous equation E=mc² as part of his research on special relativity.
Composition History
Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D major is his only concerto, though he attempted a second violin concerto in 1914-1915 but abandoned it for his Sixth Symphony.
Critical Reception
The final movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto was described by the composer as a 'danse macabre' and by musicologist Donald Tovey as 'a polonaise for polar bears'.
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