Rautavaara: Marjatta the Lowly Maiden: Works for Children’s Choir

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best of all [is] Rautavaara's celebration of innocence and experience in his Children's Mass - a mini missa brevis of childlike settingss, interspersed with stern and sombre string-orchestral... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Oct 2011
Catalogue No: ODE1169-2
Label: Ondine
Length: 69 minutes

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Rautavaara: Marjatta matala neiti (Marjatta the Lowly Maid)

Work length25:11

Album only

Tapiola Choir, Studio flutist,, Tapiola Youth Strings and Pasi Hyokki, Studio flutist
Tapiola Choir, Tapiola Youth Strings
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: Puusepan poika (the Carpenter's Son)

Work length3:38

$1.00

$1.30

Tapiola Choir
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: Lorca Suite Op. 72

Work length6:50

$4.00

$5.20

Tapiola Choir
Pasi Hyokki

I. Cancion de jinete

Track length1:35

$1.00

$1.30

II. El grito

Track length1:59

$1.00

$1.30

III. La luna asoma

Track length1:55

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Malague'na

Track length1:21

$1.00

$1.30

Rautavaara: Lorulei

Work length2:43

$3.00

$3.90

Tapiola Choir
Pasi Hyokki

I. Mista on pienet pojat tehty

Track length1:03

$1.00

$1.30

II. Hus sika metsaan

Track length1:05

$1.00

$1.30

III. Peukaloputti sian sai

Track length0:35

$1.00

$1.30

Rautavaara: Viatonten valssi (Waltz of the Innocents)

Work length2:58

$1.00

$1.30

Tapiola Choir, Tapiola Youth Strings
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: Wenn sich die Welt auftut

Work length10:36

$5.00

$6.50

Tapiola Choir
Pasi Hyokki

I. Freude steigt in uns auf

Track length1:17

$1.00

$1.30

II. Meine Liebe

Track length1:40

$1.00

$1.30

III. Dann, in jener Nacht

Track length3:09

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Der Brief

Track length2:07

$1.00

$1.30

V. Flustern

Track length2:23

$1.00

$1.30

Rautavaara: Love Never Dies

Work length2:54

$1.00

$1.30

Tapiola Choir
Pasi Hyokki

Rautavaara: Children's Mass (Lapsimessu)

Work length14:25

$7.00

$9.10

Tapiola Choir, Tapiola Youth Symphony
Pasi Hyokki

Kyrie

Track length1:56

$1.00

$1.30

Meditatio super Kyrie

Track length2:44

$1.00

$1.30

Gloria

Track length1:02

$1.00

$1.30

Meditatio super Gloriam

Track length1:32

$1.00

$1.30

Agnus Dei

Track length2:20

$1.00

$1.30

Meditatio super Agnum

Track length3:07

$1.00

$1.30

Halleluja

Track length1:44

$1.00

$1.30

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This new release features works for children’s choir by Einojuhani Rautavaara, performed by the world-renowned Tapiola Choir and their director Pasi Hyökki.

Mostly written for the Tapiola Choir, these pieces cover a wide range of topics and moods, extending from humorous nursery rhymes to more serious philosophical issues and religious solemnity.

The album title piece, the one-act choral opera Marjatta matala neiti (“Marjatta the Lowly Maiden”), is based on a poem from the Kalevala epos. The half-hour “mystery play” tells the story of Marjatta who becomes impregnated after eating a lingonberry and gives birth to a son – thus the Finnish mythological adaptation of the Christian story of Jesus’ conception and birth from a virgin.

Finnish cult composer Rautavaara is one of the rare composers to have written extensive and substantial repertoire for children’s choir. More generally, his major output for mixed and for male choir has cemented his position as one of today’s most popular composers of choral music.

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February 2012

best of all [is] Rautavaara's celebration of innocence and experience in his Children's Mass - a mini missa brevis of childlike settingss, interspersed with stern and sombre string-orchestral interludes. All delightfully fresh performances in a satisfying programme.

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