Orchestre de Paris / Janine Jansen / Klaus Mäkelä

All-time favourites

Sibelius and Jansen: two names that are practically symbiotic. Janine Jansen is happy to admit that Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto is her absolute favourite work. Her incredibly intimate relationship with this concerto stretches back long before she came to include it in her own repertoire. For the violinist, it is one of the most musically invigorating and technically difficult violin works ever written. She has a partner at her side, in Klaus Mäkelä, for whom it is as though Sibelius is a part of his DNA.