Kyoto Symphony Orchestra is a good local emsemble and turned out a few recordings of some core repetoire a couple of years ago under the baton of their then music director Uwe Mund. This recording is one of them; however, the performance is simply mediocre or just barely acceptable. The opening Finlandia is hardly a rousing curtain raiser in their hands. The Four Legends is not bad but ultimately lackluster. It is pretty much the same story for the rest. The recording sounds a bit constricted too with not much air around the instruments.Listen to Karajan in Finlandia (any of his four or five recordings of the piece), and you will find you are in a totally different world. As for the Four Legends, the Ormandy/Philadelphia is the one to go for. I hope that EMI will reissue it as one of their Great Recordings of the Century.