Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas et Mélisande has inspired composers such as Debussy, Fauré, Schoenberg and, in 1905, Sibelius, whose incidental music was written for a production at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki. His evocative score suggests the mysterious medieval world in which the lovers move towards their own tragedies. It is coupled here with Desbrière’s dramatic Sinfonia, commissioned by and dedicated to his friend Patrick Gallois, who conducts both works.