Coming between Kullervo and Symphony No.1, this is an entirely typical and characteristic tone poem of which I was previously unaware. I gather it was only rediscovered in the 1980s and given its first performance by Osmo Vänskä in 1996. I am blown away...
Thank you for the heads up. I was not aware of this piece, although discovered I already had it on a recording by John Storgards. I am equally blown away, particularly as it falls within the earlier period of Sibelius's works which is much more to my taste than his later works.
Actually the Wood Nymph contains plenty of music that is also proleptic of Sibelius' later works - especially the opening which looks forward to the 5th Symphony and, in its moments of sheer wildness, to Tapiola. What an amazingly original composer he was - virtually from the word go.
Yes, Osmo Vänskä recorded it in the BIS Sibelius series with the LahtiSO.