Sibelius: Kullervo – Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

When in 1892, Jean Sibelius set to music the life of the legendary hero Kullervo from the Finnish national epic Kalevala, critics spoke of the “birth of Finnish music”. In October 2019, Kullervo also marked a sort of birth for the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. With this work, Paavo Järvi took up his post as the orchestra's new principal conductor. Together with the Estonian National Male Choir RAM, the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and soloists Johanna Rusanen and Ville Rusanen, he brought Sibelius' national epic, full of murder and manslaughter, but also full of romantic, moving sounds, to the Tonhalle Maag.