Birthday greetings to Pekka Halonen; born on this day in 1865. Tienraivaajia Karjalassa- Pioneers in Karelia.

Jean Sibelius left this earth on the 20th of September,1957 leaving us lots of beautiful music!

Awaiting the Sibelius Festival @sinfonialahti.bsky.social

Our current single, Tapiola RIYL #sibelius #symphonies #blackmetal #nature #scarystuff #orchestras #sibeliusagain #hauntedforests #demonsandmonsters open.spotify.com/track/5EBFnz... @englishsymphony.bsky.social @jeansibelius.bsky.social

Elephant family outing🐘🐘🐘

Sibbe on @classicfm.com until 10pm😃

Celebrating Albert Edelfelt’s birthday today! He was born in 1854 in the picturesque town of Porvoo . Kaukolanharju auringonlaskun aikaan - Kaukola Ridge at Sunset

Sibelius’s tone poem Spring Song Op. 16 was premiered today in 1894 at an outdoor music festival in Vaasa.

Wonderful Sibelius’s Violin Concerto at the Proms 👏👏👏 @oramsa.bsky.social bbcsymphony orchestra and Lisa Batiashvili.

Robert Cheseman, chief falconer to Henry VIII, in 1533. Painted with his falcon by Hans Holbein, whose day was today.

Rembrandts oeuvre is ongelofelijk veelzijdig. Hij schilderde vooral historiestukken en portretten, maar soms ook een landschap of stilleven. Tevens is Rembrandt een van de weinige schilders van wie alleen de voornaam al bekend genoeg is. 2/3

Leiden, 15 juli 1606. Schilder Rembrandt van Rijn werd geboren. Rembrandt werd wereldberoemd om zijn voorstellingen vol dramatiek, met grote licht-donkercontrasten en experimentele penseelstreken. Tegenwoordig behoren zijn schilderijen tot de meest waardevolle werken ter wereld. 1/3

Whistler's Goddam Cat, door Kim Warp.

Eino Leino's portrait in 1917 by Akseli Gallen- Kallela (1865-1931) #FinnishArt

Eino Leinon päivää today - celebrating the birth of one of Finland's most famous poets - Poetry & Summer day. Leino was born in 1878 in Paltaniemi.

Savonlinna views…

Unten maille. Hyvää yötä. #uni

@elizabethbourgine.bsky.social Nice surprise! Maigret. 😃

Hyvää juhannus!

Besutiful Lake Saimaa in Finland ( from Sanna)

Sibelius-museossa avautuu huomenna näyttely Suomen oopperahistoriasta. sibeliusmuseum.fi/fi/oopperama...

Jean Sibelius’s wife Aino died on the 8th of June, 1969.

@jeansibelius.bsky.social I suppose you know this: Sibelius: The Bard www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwRF...

Red Deer!

Maantie Suomessa - Road in Finland by Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (1840-1905) #FinnishArt

Sibelius spent many happy holidays in the town of Loviisa where some of his father's family lived.

And now for something completely different.. Bruno Liljefors (Sweden, 1860–1939) An Eagle Owl, 1905 oil on canvas 59 cm (23.2 in) x 81 cm (31.8 in) National Museum of Sweden

The besuty of Finnish forests- sent by my friend Sanna! 😀

Lovely Finland - from my friend wandering there - hopefully not lost!

📸 Stanislav Gerasko #Saturday

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

#UnJourUnePhoto #Photomay2025 #photography 03/05. Lecture Mister Cat is a music lover @jeansibelius.bsky.social

Happy to have caught this owl on the mobile-phone camera. It sits about five metres above in the elliptically shaped entrance to the nest. #RiversideWalk #OwlstrixAuluco

Kullervo starting now on bbc radio 3!

And it was from one of these trees that a thrush was producing a thousand songs. So close, and I still couldn't see it.

I wish I'd had space on my camera to record a video - I can't marry this image from the London Wetland Centre and Merlin sound recording, but there was so much song from reed warbler, reed bunting, sedge warbler and non-stop chiffchaff. Later a thrush from a tree directly above produced miracles.

@jeansibelius.bsky.social Good morning! Jean Sibelius: In memoriam www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4F...

Crazy Kullervo painted by Akseli Gallen-Kallela ( 1865-1931) #FinishArt

Sibelius’s exciting Kullervo was premiered today in 1892. Janne conducted the @helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi

Happy Birthday to Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-31) one of Finland's greatest painter. Palokärki - The Great Black Woodpecker (1894) #FinnishArt

Sibelius's First Symphony Op.39 was premiered in it's original form on this day in 1899. Sibelius conducted the @helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi . And that was the start of The Most Lovely Symphonies.

The start of a Sibelius symphony cycle by the English Symphony Orchestra and @kennethwoods.net? You shouldn't have (but I'm glad you did!)

Aino Ackté painted here by Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905) #FinnishArt

Aino Ackté who was born in April 1876 in Helsinki was the famous Finnish singer who was the soloist at the premiere of Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar at the Three Counties Festival in 1913.

Sibelius: The Wood Nymph - BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds (2016) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiZZ...

If you're wondering why so many right wing individuals are saying hateful things about the late Pope, the reason is simple: he told them that they should care about other people.

Leevi Madetoja - Symphony No.2 in E-flat major, Op.35 (1918) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOO...

Joskus paikkoja tutkiessa käy tuuri. Tampereen tuomiokirkon parvi on tähän asti pysynyt suljettuna, mutta tällä kertaa ystävällinen henkilökunnan edustaja pelasti vierailun ja avasi oven. Ja onhan tämä Hugo Simbergin Haavoittunut enkeli koskettava. #tampere #taide #hugosimberg