On Monday night at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, an enthusiastic audience greeted the impressive spectacle of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra with an audibly heightened sense of curiosity. Much ...

Female Speaker 1: Carnegie Hall, please. Jeff Spurgeon: On this broadcast from Carnegie Hall Live, we have a group of musicians who haven't been on this stage in 55 years. The Helsinki Philharmonic ...

It couldn't be more authentic: Sibelius's Symphony No. 5 performed in Helsinki, in the very place where it was first performed. Conducted at the time by the composer himself, it is performed here by ...

Over a decade since their last collaboration, The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the record label Ondine have launched a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The conductor Susanna Mälkki brought her orchestra to New York in something of a farewell to her tenure in Finland. By Joshua Barone ...

Erkki Linko was the founder-conductor of the Radio Orchestra and remained with it until he retired. Before joining it, he had studied at the Helsinki Music Institute and been the pianist and leader of ...

Classical music, in its tenuousness, is being increasingly peddled as a sedative. Whether it’s droning monks or mincing Vivaldi or young composers writing pages of whole notes, the underlying message ...