Sibelius Scene with Cranes, Canzonetta and Valse Triste (from Kuolema)
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No. 4

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor
Henning Kraggerud violin

It was often when most frustrated that Jean Sibelius created his most enduring and moving masterworks. The composer’s dream of becoming a virtuoso violinist was dashed when he failed an audition for the Vienna Philharmonic, but that only added charge to the inspiration behind his resplendent Violin Concerto, a testament in music to the virtuoso Sibelius never was. At his deepest depths of despair, diagnosed with cancer and fighting off debts, Sibelius created his Fourth Symphony; perhaps his most stark, evocative, chilling and moving. Its dark, craggy outcrops and shadows conspire toward the formation of one of the most unusual but inspiring symphonies ever created.

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