(January 2021) Episode 295 of the “opus project” is JEAN SIBELIUS. A national hero of Finland in part because his music promoted Finnish nationalism. He is best known for his symphonies, which I like. Yet overall, his compositions remained committed to a romantic aesthetic as most of his contemporaries had moved on to modernist and experimental approaches, so that makes him less interesting to me.
Favorite piece: Symphony #5
Favorite smaller orchestral piece: Finlandia
Compared to expectations: ↓
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