Towards the Light: Choral works by Rautavaara, Wennäkoski & Livorsi

The choir makes them [Lamenti] sound perfectly natural and almost spontaneous. — Choir & Organ, May/June 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd May 2019
Catalogue No: ICSM013
Label: ICSM Records

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Rautavaara: Missa A Cappella

Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Rautavaara: Our joyful'st feast 'When icicles hang by the wall'

Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Wennäkoski: Valossa

Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Livorsi: Lamenti

Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

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Rautavaara began work on an unaccompanied mass, the ‘Missa a cappella’, in March 2009, its first performance taking place on November 25th 2011 at Jacobikerk, Utrecht, by the Netherlands Radio Choir under Celso Antunes. ‘Our Joyful’st Feast’ came into being only a few years earlier when the Helsinki Chamber Choir and Nils Schweckendiek commissioned a choral work to be performed at the European Broadcasting Union Christmas concert. Rautavaara decided to set texts by two English Renaissance poets: two extracts from Shakespeare and a section from an extensive Christmas poem by George Wither, a contemporary of the Bard.

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May/June 2019

The choir makes them [Lamenti] sound perfectly natural and almost spontaneous.

August 2019

The highlight comes from Italian-born, Finnish resident Paula Livorsi, whose Lamenti is a giant four-phase lament…here more than anywhere, Nils Schweckendiek’s Helsinki Chamber Choir sound exceptional in their holding of cloud-like chords with precision tuning and timbral atmosphere.

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