Paavo Jarvi on Sibelius 

Wonderful interview. I love Sibelius and this conductor. Thank you!

I lived in Cincinnati when Paavo was the conductor of the CSO. It’s interviews like these that remind me of my good fortune.

Got to love Pavvo! Wish his Telarc recordings were more easily available 😢

I have listened to every recording of this Sibelius Symphony and think Pavlo, Jarvis is the most beautiful….He is a delight to watch as he seems to actually feel the music and the orchestra responds to him perfectly. And the timpani player was amazing, with his black long coat, never sitting , almost constantly drumming. …Hope it wasn’t true but read where he died not long after this performance. So sad.

Thank you maestro Järvi's lesson !

Holing Paavo can make it back to Cincinnati some time. His linguistic perspective is unfiltered.

It seems crazy to me to think that a couple of musicologist's opinions could carry that much weight for so many years...today, the Immortal music of Sibelius is finally retaking its rightful place in recordings and in concert halls all over the world

He was considered an antipope against the pretensions of the serialists

website down...???

Sibelius seems to be having the last laugh over the music critics and the Second Viennese school. It was much the same in my youth in the US. Sibelius was in low critical esteem. His centenary in 1965 passed without much notice. It took me until my 60s to overcome this critical bias against his music. Also I think in places like the US and England where Sibelius was very popular while he was still alive the avant gard wanted to use him as their whipping boy

Too quiet, couldn't hear it..