Rautavaara - Complete Works for Male Choir - Ondine: ODE1125-2D - 2 CDs or download

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Especially striking, its tenor line soaring over a quasi-orchestral vocal fabric, is the literary Leaves are Leaves; but finer still are the Four Alexis Kivi Songs (1998-2005), from his opera... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Nov 2008
Catalogue No: ODE1125-2D
Label: Ondine
Length: 98 minutes

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January 2009

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Rautavaara: Laulaja

Work length2:36

$1.00

$1.30

YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Laulaja (the Singer) [Live]

Track length2:36

$1.00

$1.30

Rautavaara: Autumn at the Rivermouth

Work length2:55

$1.00

$1.30

YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Rautavaara: 2 Preludes by T.S. Eliot

Work length2:59

$2.00

$2.60

Talla Vocal Ensemble
Pasi Hyokki

No. 1, Winter Evening

Track length2:09

$1.00

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No. 2, The Morning Comes

Track length0:50

$1.00

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Rautavaara: Psalmi 23 - Psalm 23

Work length2:45

$1.00

$1.30

YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Rautavaara: Psalmi 130 - Psalm 130

Work length2:40

$1.00

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YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Rautavaara: Ave Maria

Work length3:30

$1.00

$1.30

Talla Vocal Ensemble
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: Joulun virsi - Christmas Hymn

Work length1:40

$1.00

$1.30

YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Rautavaara: Elaman kirja (a Book of Life)

Work length27:53

$12.00

$15.60

Olli Hannuksela, Tuomas Katajala, Pasi Hyokki, Timo Mannonen
Talla Vocal Ensemble, YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

No. 1, Kindheit [Childhood]

Track length3:56

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No. 2, Ma bohème [My Bohemian Life]

Track length2:35

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No. 3, L'Amoureuse [One in Love]

Track length1:13

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No. 4, Vanitas! Vanitatum vanitas [Turhuuksien turhuus]

Track length3:27

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No. 5, Hope Is the Thing With Feathers [Toivo on hoyhenpukuinen]

Track length1:16

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No. 6, Are You Ready? [Tahdotko]

Track length1:37

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No. 7, Huojuva keula [the Swaying Prow]

Track length1:06

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No. 8, Le Bain [Swimming]

Track length1:39

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No. 9, Me emme kuole koskaan [We Shall Never Die]

Track length2:19

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No. 10, Sa var det [so It was]

Track length1:30

$1.00

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No. 11, Song of Myself [Laulu itsestani]

Track length7:15

$2.00

$2.60

Rautavaara: 4 Songs from the Opera Aleksis Kivi

Work length12:52

$4.00

$5.20

YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

No. 1, Ikavyys (Melancholy) [arr. For choir]

Track length4:04

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No. 2, Olven kunnia (the Glory of Beer) [arr. For choir]

Track length1:33

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No. 3, Oravan laulu (the Squirrel) [arr. For choir]

Track length3:36

$1.00

$1.30

No. 4, Sydameni laulu (Song of My Heart) [arr. For choir]

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

Rautavaara: Legenda - Legend

Work length3:12

$1.00

$1.30

Talla Vocal Ensemble
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: Leaves are Leaves

Work length4:36

$1.00

$1.30

Tuomas Katajala
YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Rautavaara: 4 Serenades

Work length7:41

$4.00

$5.20

Pasi Hyokki, Tuukka Haapaniemi
Talla Vocal Ensemble

No. 1, Serenade fur meine Frau (Serenade to My Wife)

Track length1:41

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2, La mort des pauvres (Serenade to Death)

Track length2:09

$1.00

$1.30

No. 3, Serenadien serenadi (Serenade of Serenades)

Track length1:29

$1.00

$1.30

No. 4, Serenadi oluelle (Serenade to Beer)

Track length2:22

$1.00

$1.30

Rautavaara: Hammarskjold-fragment

Work length5:57

$1.00

$1.30

Jussi Salovaara
Talla Vocal Ensemble
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: Isontalon Antti Rannanjarvi (Andy from the Big House)

Work length3:51

$1.00

$1.30

Tuomas Katajala
YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Rautavaara: Hallin Janne

Work length1:57

$1.00

$1.30

Talla Vocal Ensemble
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: The Fox and the Sick Cockerel

Work length2:01

$1.00

$1.30

YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

Rautavaara: 4 Romanssia oopperasta Rasputin

Work length9:43

$4.00

$5.20

YL Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki

No. 1, Lavitse kimmeltavan yon (Through the Glimmering Night) [4 Romances from the Opera Rasputin]

Track length2:24

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$1.30

No. 2, Kaukana on minun maani (Far Away Lies My Husband) [4 Romances from the Opera Rasputin]

Track length3:10

$1.00

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No. 3, Troikka kiitaa (the Troika Speeds) [4 Romances from the Opera Rasputin]

Track length1:49

$1.00

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No. 4, Kuu kelmea vain virtaan kuvastuu (Moonlight Is Pale Upon the River) [4 Romances from the Opera Rasputin]

Track length2:20

$1.00

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This release marks the culmination of the 80th birthday celebrations for Ondine's best-selling omposer, Einojuhani Rautavaara, following a successful campaign on his back catalogue. Ondine has had a long and fruitful association with the Finnish cult composer since the late 1980s, having recorded the premières of many of his works and garnering many awards along the way, including a Grammy nomination for his Angel of Light (Symphony No. 7). This new recording features his complete works for male choir - one of the most popular genres in this composer's artistic output.The two ensembles are the YL Male Voice Choir (Helsinki University Choir), one of the world's most prominent male voice choirs and the commissioner and dedicatee of most of Rautavaara's (and also Jean Sibelius') works for male voice choir. Only recently the Choir was featured on the critically acclaimed recording of Sibelius' Kullervo, along with the Talla Vocal Ensemble, a smaller group of 10 singers originally founded within the YL Choir.

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March 2009

Especially striking, its tenor line soaring over a quasi-orchestral vocal fabric, is the literary Leaves are Leaves; but finer still are the Four Alexis Kivi Songs (1998-2005), from his opera about Finland's equivalent of Pushkin and Burns, the main solo 'Melancholy' movingly underpinned by YL's awesomely dark, firm basses.

2010

YL divide up the works between the main body and their 10-man offshoot, the Talla Vocal Ensemble – the latter, incidentally, are superb in the two TS Eliot Preludes (1956, rev 1967).
Ondine's recording is rich, with great presence, matched by singing of urgency and vividness.
And YL and Talla's interpretations have impetus and power, as in the half-hour-long A Book ofLife (1972), which is split between the two groups (as are the Four Serenades, 1978), setting 11 poems – including texts by Rilke, Rimbaud, Goethe, Emily Dickinson and Whitman – in five languages.
The greater textural palette attained through using two differently sized choirs is more akin to that found in some early-music recordings. Perhaps there's a loss of intimacy and a certain dreamy quality – for instance in the Psalms (1968-71) or some of the folksong arrangements.
But this is a small price to pay for the gains which, for collectors of Rautavaara, will chiefly be the quartets of songs to poems by Aleksis Kivi (arr 2005) or from the opera Rasputin (arr 2006), not otherwise issued.

January 2009

…so this comprehensive and magnificently sung new collection has the field to itself.

Rautavaara - Complete Works for Male Choir

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