Sibelius | 5th Symphony

„ … and in fact Arvo Volmer brought an appreciable Baltic tautness to his interpretation last night with the CBSO, allowing few pauses for breath — not even in the opening’s rhetorical flourishes — and permitting no sentimental lingering. He did find elements of added mystery within this so-special work, however. … “

(CBSO Birmingham, Sibelius: 5th Symphony)