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Special offer. Sibelius: Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island)
Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Folke Gräsbeck (piano) & Harri Viitanen (organ)
Dominante Choir, Seppo Murto
Fascinating manuscript fragments and student exercises appear alongside Finnish and Swedish-language choral classics...Supple, springy choral singing.
Special offer. Sibelius: Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island)
Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Folke Gräsbeck (piano) & Harri Viitanen (organ)
Dominante Choir, Seppo Murto
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Fascinating manuscript fragments and student exercises appear alongside Finnish and Swedish-language choral classics...Supple, springy choral singing.
About
Dominante and Seppo Murto here present a disc of choral works for mixed choir by Jean Sibelius
The programme spans the entire active career of the composer and includes some of his best-known works, such as Rakastava (The Lover) and the Six Songs, Op.18, and the piece which has provided the title of the present disc: Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island).
The disc also includes some rarities, including some Neapolitan folk songs and a light-hearted serenade featuring the legendary Jorma Hynninen.
The disc ends with the hymn section from Finlandia, probably Sibelius’ most famous composition.
Contents and tracklist
- Monica Groop, Jorma Hynninen
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Jorma Hynninen, Folke Gräsbeck
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Folke Gräsbeck
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Jorma Hynninen, Harri Viitanen
- Dominante
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
- Dominante Choir
- Seppo Murto
- Recorded: October 2009, January, February, April 2010
- Recording Venue: Nya Paviljongen, Grankulla, Finland
Awards and reviews
December 2012
Fascinating manuscript fragments and student exercises appear alongside Finnish and Swedish-language choral classics...Supple, springy choral singing.
February 2013
Where the newcomer scores is in a clutch of real rarities, the least of which - the five student Contrapuntal Exercises written in 1887-90 - are fascinating (and also very taxing to sing)...Dominante's 40 [singers] do it [Man fran slatten och havet] proud, Christian Starke's sound superbly capturing throughout their finely nuanced interpretations