'Although he only completed one, short opera, Sibelius was no stranger to the theatre. This enterprising disc brings some of his better-known incidental scores together with music less often aired. Pe ...
'I like the menace that Swensen finds in this music [Pelleas and Melisande], and also in The Tempest. 'At the seashore', (the number Beecham omits) is quite threatening; nature's violenc ...
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