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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957)

Composer of the Week: Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957): Episode 1

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Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957)

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Donald Macleod outlines the background behind Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola.

Donald Macleod explores outlines the background behind Sibelius's last, and perhaps greatest, major orchestral work - his tone poem Tapiola. Plus two church antiphons.

In the late 1920s, at the very height of his powers, Jean Sibelius abruptly and enigmatically put down his pen.For three decades until his death in 1957 at the age of 91, he was to produce virtually no new work - living out the rest of his life shrouded in silent mystery in the depths of the forests, north of Helsinki.

Or did he? In this week's Composer Of The Week, Donald MacLeod explores and explodes the mythology cloaking the last decades of Sibelius' life.a period not quite as 'silent' as legend might have us believe.

Today's episode outlines the background behind Sibelius' last, and perhaps greatest, major orchestral work, his extraordinary, terrifying tone poem Tapiola - as well as an unexpected pair of solemn and reverent church antiphons.not at all what you might expect from this master of orchestral colour.

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Donald Macleod explores the mythology surrounding the last decades of Sibelius's life

Donald Macleod explores the myths and mysteries behind Sibelius's last, so-called 'silent' decades. With extracts from the composer's diary as well as a variety of rare pieces

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