Joulun hohde. Christmas Glow
Mari Palo, soprano
Petri Bäckström, tenor
Vantaa Pops Orchestra
Markku Johansson, conductor
Track listing
13 tracks · 49:07Listen to samples on selected tracks.
Leroy Anderson
- 1 Rekiretki (Sleigh Ride) 2:51
Howard Blake
- 2 Avaruus (orig. Walking in the Air), from: The Snowman 3:43
Markku Johansson
- 3 Kun vuodet kiirehtää 3:51
Traditional
- 4 Joulu joka päivä (Christmas Everyday) 3:10
Markku Johansson
- 5 Joulun hohde 3:44
Oskar Merikanto
- 6 Joulu tullut on 3:31
Erik Lindström
- 7 Entisajan joulu 2:31
Markku Johansson
- 8 Joulun tähti ? sikermä 5:17
Lyyli Wartiovaara-Kallioniemi
- 9 Tonttu 3:59
Walter Kent
- 10 I´ll Be Home for Christmas 3:02
Reino Markkula
- 11 Tanssiva lumiukko 2:48
Leroy Anderson
- 12 Christmas Festival 6:57
Howard Blake
- 13 Walking in the Air, from: The Snowman 3:43
Features
Booklet with liner notes in Finnish and the song lyrics in the original language
The artists
Mari Palo
Mari Palo studied with Sirkka Haavisto at the Central Ostrobothnian Conservatoire and has been a pupil of Marjut Hannula at the Sibelius Academy from 1996-2003. She has also studied with Elisabeth Norberg-Schultz, and Lied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hartmut Höll, Mitshuko Shirai and Ilmo Ranta. She won third prize and the special prize of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) in the Lappeenranta Singing Competition in 1999 and second prize in the Merikanto Competition in 2001. Since then she has appeared with many orchestras and given Lied recitals of her own in Finland, Denmark, France and Hungary. Her operatic roles include Michaela in Carmen, Regina von Emmeritz in Kuusisto's The Royal Ring, the Girl in Juha T. Koskinen's The Old Woman, and the Squirrel in Kirmo Lintinen's Nuts about Nosh.
Markku Johansson
Markku Johansson has had a varied musical career taking in just about everything from classical music to jazz and popular music, and he can turn his hand to the trumpet, the flugelhorn, arranging, composing and conducting. He has worked with most of Finland's jazz musicians and conducted numerous big bands, studio and symphony orchestras. A founder member of the UMO Jazz Orchestra, he was its Artistic Director 1992-93 and has been skippering the Vantaa Pops Orchestra since 1988. He has been the receiver or many major Finnish jazz and light music awards, and two years ago of the Order of the Finnish Lion, I class.