The Lahti Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Osmo Vänskä continue to throw new light on Sibelius. The latest discoveries came this autumn: two movements from a lost orchestral suite were given their first performances – as encores, on 19 and 20 September – during the Sibelius Festival in Lahti, now in its third year, and were ‘officially’ premièred on 24 October, when the first version of the tone poem The Oceanides was also given its first performance. The extent to which two works are intimately connected is surfacing in work undertaken by the British Sibelius expert Andrew Barnett, to whose researches this report is indebted.