Following the success of their recordings of Sibelius’s Night Ride and Sunrise, Belshazzar’s Feast Suite and Kuolema (8.570763)—‘top-notch performances’ (Fanfare)—and Scènes historiques I & II and King Christian II Suite (8.570068)—‘polished and involving…handsomely true and atmospheric sound’ (Gramophone)—talented young Finnish-born Pietari Inkinen conducts the internationally acclaimed New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in poetic and sweeping performances of his compatriot’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3. This is the first volume in a new Naxos series.