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© BIS Records AB
BIS-CD-1115
Total Time: 71'42   –  Release: Mar 2000

EAN 7318590011157

Finland Awakes - Patriotic Music by Jean Sibelius
Includes First Recordings
Jean Sibelius
Press Celebrations Music
  1. I. Preludio 3'48
  2. II. Tableau 1. Väinämöinen delights Nature, and the peoples if Kaleva and Pohola, with his song 3'41
  3. III. Tableau 2. The Finns are baptized 8'09
  4. IV. Tableau 3. Scene from Duke Johan´s Court 6'08
  5. V. Tableau 4. The Finns in the Thirty Years War 5'00
  6. VI. Tableau 5. the Great Hostility 6'06
  7. Music played during the tableau 0'30
  8. VII. Tableau 6. Finland Awakes 7'57

  9. Islossning i Uleå älv, Op.30 (1899) (The Breaking of the Ice on the Oulu River) Text: Zachris Topelius 10'30

  10. Laulu Lemminkäiselle, Op.31 No.1 (1896) (A Song for Lemmenkäinen) Text: Yrjö Weijola 4'08

  11. Har du mod?, Op.31 No.2 (1904) (Have You Courage?) Text: Josef Julius Wecksell 1'31

  12. Aternarnes sång, Op.31 No.3 (1899) (Song of the Athenians) Text: Viktor Rydberg 3'31

  13. Finland Awakes (track 8 with alternative ending) 8'27

Lasse Pöysti, narrator
YL Male Voice Choir, choir
Lahti Boys' Choir, choir
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor


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