After DG's dreadfully confounding "New Complete Essential Beethoven" foolishness, it was a pleasure to see an "essential" collection done right. Taken from BIS's 68-disc complete Sibelius Edition, this attractively priced 15-disc selection does a splendid job in giving us the best of Sibelius in all of the media in which he worked--along with a sensible booklet containing complete track listings, notes, sung texts and (English) translations. Way to go, BIS!

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