Shelley, Pouliot & Shostakovich
National Arts Centre 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaFinnish composer Jean Sibelius described his Second Symphony as “a great river flowing to the sea,” but generations of Finns have heard it as a patriotic symbol of their country’s quest for freedom from Imperial Russia. As the music journeys through moments of pastoral calm, white-hot intensity, and triumphant resilience, what will you hear in Sibelius’s majestic symphony? […]