Sibelius: Kullervo
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
CDA68248
While Kullervo represents just the confident first step in Sibelius’s symphonic odyssey, it is also a viscerally exciting experience on its own terms—little wonder the first performance in 1892 was such a triumph for the young composer. An unmissable acquisition for anyone who knows only the numbered symphonies.