Sibelius was once described as a composer with 'the spirit of a Polar explorer'; a theme from his preternaturally - or should that be naturally? - beautiful Violin Concerto as 'a polonaise for polar bears'. So it seems apt that a day that began listening to Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili's impassioned performance of this piece ended with the final instalment of On Thin Ice, the race by James Cracknell, Ben Fogle and Ed Coates to the South Pole. Not that there are really any other parallels between these two events, but sometimes it's just nice for there to be a relaxed symmetry to the day.
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