Jean Sibelius: The Spruce (Granen)
Composed in 1914, ‘The Spruce’ is one of my all-time favourite piano works about trees. In fact, the Op 75 suite from which this piece is from, is called . I first heard the piece during my university years, beautifully performed by my friend Swiss pianist Olivia Geiser, and it has stuck with me ever since. In Sibelius’s writing, there is a beautiful sense of space. There