Par RAUTAVAARA EINOJUHANI. Durée: 15', Langue: Spanish, Finnish, Format: Parisien portrait/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte (SATB)
SKU: HL.48000890
UPC: 073999812510. 8.25x11.75x0.217 inches.
Contents: Three Sonnets of Shakespeare (That Time of Year, When I Do Count the Clock, Shall I Compare Thee) * Sacred Feasts (The Great Good Friday, Evening Prayer, Candlemas, Hymn of Christmas - Hymn of Life) * Five Sonnets of Orpheus (Da stieg ein Baum, Und fast ein Madchen wars, Ein Gott vermags, O ihr Zartlichen, Errichtet keinen Denkstein) * Die Liebenden (Liebes-Lied, Der Schauende, Die Liebende, Der Tod der Geliebten) * God's Way (God's Way, The Child, Pentecost, Dream in the Cathedral) * Dream World (October, Waltz of the Innocents, I Approach Thee) * Works for soloist and orchestra.
SKU: FG.55011-588-0
ISBN 9790550115880.
I wrote my First Symphony while studying in the United States in 1955, but the work has since undergone two substantial changes. The original four-movement structure changed into a two-movement structure in 1988, with an expansive, Romantic and pathos-laden principal movement followed by a grotesque and ironic scherzo. This version seems to owe something to Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the idols of 1950s Modernism in Finland. Later I found that the structure was out of balance, and in 2003 I added a lyrical slow movement (Poetico) between the two existing ones. In order to preserve the 1950s spirit of the original work, I based the slow movement on solo song written around the same time (third movement from the song cycle Die Liebenden).
SKU: FG.55011-148-6
ISBN 979-0-55011-148-6.
According to Rautavaara it was a pity to leave the melancholy, moonlit songs of his opera Rasputin to languish within the confines of the opera. He therefore arranged the set of unabashedly sentimental and thoroughly melodic pieces, first for male choir, and in 2012 for mixed choir. Texts both in English and in Finnish.
