​Ives’s Concord Sonata often requires its performer to despatch inhuman quantities of notes at superhuman speed, but Ahonen scoops them up like a kid building sandcastles,...

Here’s a bold idea, and a bold choice of repertoire, and it largely works – although I found it more rewarding to concentrate on one work...

Sallinen’s orchestrations are a miracle of restraint, somehow managing to sound entirely appropriate without mimicking Sibelius’s own style: his textures are lighter, with less ‘middle’, and...

The huge tide of humanity that almost overwhelmed the 2017 NMD was also its triumph: a characteristic gift from London, European capital of creative curiosity and...

The accordion queen Maria Kalaniemi has been around for 30 years but still continues to impress, now by singing as well.

Having travelled all around the world, the Majidi brothers have distilled their experiences and musical influences into a titillating album that will knock your socks off!...

Both Karen Tweed and Timo Alakotila are supreme lyrical performers who have a true gift for uncovering the spirit and text of the tunes they play....

"Maija Kauhanen's debut album could well be a future classic in Finnish folk music."

The Helsinki summer season culminates with the Helsinki Festival, a longstanding multi-arts festival attracting a fairly established culture-loving crowd. The Festival’s overall multi-disciplinary approach is also...