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Cover: Einojuhani Rautavaara – True & False Unicorn

Einojuhani Rautavaara

True & False Unicorn

Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Finnish RSO
Timo Nuoranne, conductor

ODE 1020-2 · CD · May 2003

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Track listing

26 tracks · 70:27

Einojuhani Rautavaara

  1. True & False Unicorn 72:48
  2. 1 I. Before the Arras: The Unicorn Questions the Nature of the Chase 1:40
  3. 2 --The Lion, Reading 1:40
  4. 3 --Sigmund of Vienna 3:24
  5. 4 --The Unicorn 2:07
  6. 5 II. Horn and Hounds: Entering the Wilderness the Unicorn Is Beset by Voices 1:32
  7. 6 --Young Sagittarius 1:30
  8. 7 --A Virgin, Waiting 2:36
  9. 8 --The Empress of Byzantium 1:12
  10. 9 --Queen Victoria 2:28
  11. 10 --His Honor the Mayor 1:10
  12. 11 --Big Black Sambo 2:40
  13. 12 III. Snare and Delusion: In the Heart of the Desert the Silence Is Pearcing 3:02
  14. 13 --The Unicorn, Wounded 5:04
  15. 14 IV. ?Mon Seul Désir?: The Unicorn Reaches a Temple in a Clearing 1:53
  16. 15 --Sigmund of Vienna 1:41
  17. 16 --The Lion 2:57
  18. 17 --The Unicorn 1:51
  19. 18 --Tom Fool 0:44
  20. 19 --The Virgin?s Lullaby 1:48
  21. 20 --The Unicorn 3:44
  22. Canción de nuestro tiempo (Song of Our Time) 14:49
  23. 21 I. Fragmentos de agonía (Fragments of Agony) 4:08
  24. 22 II. Meditación primera y última (First and Last Meditation) 4:17
  25. 23 III. Ciudad sin sueño (Nocturno del Sarajevo) (Sleepless City (Nocturno of Sarajevo)) 6:23
  26. Halavan himmeän alla (In the Shade of the Willow) (1998) 10:57
  27. 24 I. Ikävyys (Melancholy) 4:27
  28. 25 II. Laulu oravasta (The Squirrel) 2:38
  29. 26 III. Sydämeni laulu (Song of My Heart) 3:51

Features

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish and the sung texts in the original language and in English

The artists

Timo Nuoranne

Timo Nuoranne was Artistic Director of the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir between 1997 and 2004, when the ensemble became the Helsinki Chamber Choir. A graduate in choral conducting and piano playing from the Sibelius Academy, he at present teaches choral conducting on Academy's degree programme in church music and acts as Artistic Director of the Tampere Philharmonic Choir.

Full biography