Few composers celebrated their homeland as passionately and powerfully as Jean Sibelius. His tone-poem Finlandia became an alternate Finnish national anthem, and his seven symphonies, written in a tonal and magnificently atmospheric language, take us on a searing voyage of the soul. From the Tchaikovskian first two, Sibelius refines and concentrates his language—passing through No. 5 with shattering power—to the short and intense No. 7. As well as shorter orchestral works, Sibelius is equally famed for his technically challenging Violin Concerto.