Kristian Sallinen leads a Nordic program centred on Sibelius’s Second Symphony, composed in 1901–02 and later embraced as a symbol of Finnish identity, its quiet opening unfolding into a triumphant finale. It is bookended by Leevi Madetoja’s rarely heard Kullervo from 1913, a symphonic poem drawn from Finnish legend and…

Kristian Sallinen leads a Nordic program centred on Sibelius’s Second Symphony, composed in 1901–02 and later embraced as a symbol of Finnish identity, its quiet opening unfolding into a triumphant finale. It is bookended by Leevi Madetoja’s rarely heard Kullervo from 1913, a symphonic poem drawn from Finnish legend and…