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Release Date: Saturday 28 June 2008
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Why did Sibelius produce nothing in his last 30 years?
In Jean Sibelius's house, about half an hour north of Helsinki and within sight of haunting Lake Tuusula, there is a massive green fireplace, the height of the dining room. Every brick has been carefully glazed, reflecting the light that streams in through the front windows like an evergreen glimpsed in a wintry woodland. For any visitor to Ainola today - the house is named after Sibelius's wife, Aino - the fireplace is a colourful interloper in an interior otherwise completely made of pine.
Academic March (1919)
Cantata for the Conferment Ceremony of 1894
Andante festivo (1922)
Coronation Cantata (1896)
Finlandia, Op. 26/7 (1899)