Camilla Nylund
Transfiguration · Wagner & Strauss - Arias & Scenes
Camilla Nylund, soprano · Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra · Hannu Lintu, conductor
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Track listing
22 tracks · 54:18Listen to samples on selected tracks.
Armas Järnefelt
- 1 Sunnuntaina (On Sunday) 1:54
- 2 Skymning (Twilight) 1:56
- 3 Puhjetessa kukka puhtahin (A Flower Is Purest When Blossoming) 1:26
- 4 Kanteleelle (To the Kantele) 2:38
- 5 Suvirannalla (Summer Shore) 1:16
- 6 När alla klockor klämtat tolf (When All Clocks Have Struck Twelve) 4:15
- 7 Köyhä (The Poor One) 2:51
- 8 Kehtolaulu (Liekku liiku) (Lullaby (Rock, O Cradle)) 3:19
- 9 En drömmares sång till livet (A Dreamer?s Song to Life) 4:12
- 10 Du (You) 1:55
- 11 Isänmaan kasvot (The Face of the Fatherland) 2:56
- 12 Aallon kehtolaulu (Lullaby to a Breaker) 2:26
- 13 I solnedgången (At Sunset) 2:15
- 14 Laula, laula! (Sing, Sing!) 3:37
- 15 Solsken (Sunshine) 1:54
- 16 Unelma (Dream) 3:37
- 17 Lina 1:53
- 18 En spel- och dansvisa (A Fiddling and Dancing Tune) 2:27
- 19 Titania 1:26
- 20 Kehtolaulu (Hiljaa, hiljaa) (Lullaby (Soft, soft)) 1:56
- 21 Toivoni (My Hope) 1:44
- 22 Leivo (The Lark) 2:25
About this recording
This CD features baritone Jorma Hynninen (tracks 1-11) and soprano Camilla Nylund (12-22) with solo songs by Armas Järnefelt (1869-1958) who was a brother-in-law of Jean Sibelius. His slightly over sixty solo songs form a notable segment of Finnish National Romantic vocal music and are characterized by their use of melody, cantabile, colourful harmony and a Nordic freshness and lucidity. While his early songs are wholly grounded in folklore, his later output imports Impressionism and even Expressionist tones.
This recording was co-produced by the Armas Järnefelt Society.
Features
Booklet with liner notes in English and Finnish and the song lyrics in the original language and in English
Press
Jorma Hynninen - surely the finest baritone in the generation after Fischer-Dieskau - is without peer in such repertoire, and he does a marvelous job with these little gems.
Martin Anderson, Fanfare Magazine, May/June 2001
Järnefelt is a name to conjure with for any Sibelian or Finnophile. (...) Nylund's rhapsodic 'Sing, sing!' (...) embodies Finland's supreme way of articulating emotion.
Hilary Finch, BBC Music Magazine, February 2004, Peformance / Sound
The artists
Jorma Hynninen
Baritone Jorma Hynninen is one of the most highly appreciated Finnish vocal artists of all time. His unprejudiced and profound approach to art has contributed not only to a renewal in the art of interpreting solo songs but also to the creation of a number of new contemporary operas. In Lied, he has concentrated on the song cycles of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf and the solo songs of Sibelius, Oskar Merikanto, Toivo Kuula and Yrjö Kilpinen. He has appeared at innumerable distinguished venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Musikverein, the Concertgebouw, Boston Symphony Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall and the festivals at Tanglewood, Ravinia and Salzburg.
Camilla Nylund
Camilla Nylund was born in Vaasa, Finland. She began her training with Eva Illes and completed her vocal studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum. A multipleprize winner, she was from 1995 to 1999 an ensemble member of the Hannover State Opera. From 1999 to 2001 she joined the Saxon State Opera in Dresden, where she received the Christel Goltz-Preis in 2000. Since 2001 she has been an artist-in-residence in Dresden, and in 2008 she was awarded the title of 'Kammersängerin' by the State of Saxony.
Ilkka Paananen
Ilkka Paananen studied the piano with Jarmo Räty at the Kuopio Conservatory, with Eero Heinonen at the Sibelius Academy, with Phyllis Sellick in London and in masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Ralf Gothóni, Dalton Baldwin and others. He was the winner of the Maj Lind Piano Competition in 1982 and the Danish Sonning Foundation in 1985.