Browse: Sibelius - The Wood-Nymph (Skogsrået), Op. 15

It's a strong Fourth, worthy of comparison with the best, but the performance of The Wood Nymph is simply the best to appear so far. Symphonic drive and story-telling are balanced magnificently... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

As ever with Vanska, the interpretation is full of incidental insights, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra's playing captured in excellent sound. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

If there's a star on this disc it's Anni Kuusimäki, the harpist in the brief but weirdly touching tone-poem The Bard...Zimmermann is determined to peel off the mould of tradition and open up... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

To hear Osmo Vänskä conducting Jean Sibelius is to change one's view of the music. — Financial Times More…

Camilla Tilling uses her light lyric soprano to trace the echoes and glints of folksong in the melodic shape and harmonic underpinning of many of these songs of the North. Minimal vibrato and... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

The vast majority of Sibelius's songs are in Swedish, the language with which he grew up as a child, and here they're given by a distinguished native Swedish partnership. The Seven Songs, Op... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

…all the performances are stylish and full of the requisite intensity. Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür's works emerge particularly well. …Zeitraum soon discovers a chanting lyricism, plus... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…