Joulu tullut on
Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo soprano
Musica Choir
Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Ulf Söderblom, conductor
Track listing
20 tracks · 46:00Listen to samples on selected tracks.
Armas Maasalo
- 1 Joulun kellot (Christmas Bells) 3:09
Jean Sibelius
- 2 On hanget korkeat nietokset (The Shining Snows Are Driven High), Op. 1 2:07
- 3 En etsi valtaa, loistoa (We Ask for Nothing Rich or Rare), Op. 1 3:30
- 4 Jo joutuu ilta (Over Hill and Dale), Op. 1/3 1:55
- 5 Joulu saapuu portin luo (Now Stands Yule at the Snowy Gate), Op. 1/1 1:33
- 6 Tervehtii jo meitä 2:10
Pekka Juhani Hannikainen
- 7 Kautta tyynen, vienon yön 1:36
Selim Palmgren
- 8 Ja neitsyt pikku poijuttansa (The Virgin Rocks Her Baby Boy) 1:25
Karl Collan
- 9 Sylvian joululaulu (Sylvia's Carol) 4:03
Martti Turunen
- 10 Me käymme joulun viettohon 1:20
Erkki Melartin
- 11 Kristuslapsen kehtolaulu (The Christchild's Lullaby) 3:20
Otto Kotilainen
- 12 Jouluyö (Tyyni on ilta jääpuvussaan) 2:09
Pekka Juhani Hannikainen
- 13 Jouluaattona (Oi terve, joulukuusi) 2:25
Traditional
- 14 Tuo armon valkokyyhky 2:17
Otto Kotilainen
- 15 Varpunen jouluaamuna (A Sparrow on Christmas Morning) 3:49
Erkki Melartin
- 16 Marian kehtolaulu 2:56
Pekka Juhani Hannikainen
- 17 Tuikkikaa, oi joulun tähtöset 1:41
Joonas Kokkonen
- 18 Metsän joulu 1:28
- 19 Legenda 2:06
- 20 Jouluna 1:01
Features
Booklet with liner notes in Finnish and English and the song texts in the original Finnish
The artists
Lilli Paasikivi
Lilli Paasikivi notable performances have included: Schoenberg's Gurrelieder with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste; Wagner's Wesendonk-Lieder with Janos Furst; Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and also Gurrelieder with Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen; the world premiere of Shchedrin's The Enchanted Wanderer with New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel; Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and On Guard for Peace with the Philharmonia under Vladimir Ashkenazy; Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck Lieder with Münchner Philharmoniker under Susanna Mälkki; Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Mariss Jansons; and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontious with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Ashkenzay. Last season she made her concert débuts with Cincinnati Symphony and London Symphony Orchestra both under the baton of Paavo Järvi, New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas and Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. As principal soloist at Finnish National Opera, roles have included Carmen, Angelina (La cenerentola), Cordelia in Sallinen's King Lear, Dorabella (Cosiì fan tutte), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Marchesa Melibea in Dario Fo's production of Il viaggio a Reims; Varvara (Katya Kabanova), Aleksandra Fjodorovna in Rautavaara's Rasputin and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). Elsewhere she made her début at the Châtelet in the role of The Pilgrim in Saariaho's opera L'amour de loin, sang the role of Jitsuko Honda in the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's Hanjo at Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, made her house and role débuts at Opéra de Lyon as The Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and returned to Aix to sing Fricka in Das Rheingold.
Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Jyväskylä Sinfonia was founded in 1955 and is a versatile Finnish orchestra.
Ulf Söderblom
Ulf Söderblom (b. 1930 in Turku) took his degree in conducting at the Vienna Academy of Music under Hans Swarowski. A considerable part of his career was devoted to his work at the Finnish National Opera as its Conductor (1957-1973), Chief Conductor (1973-1993), Director of Planning (1968-1970), Artistic Director (1970-1973) and temporary Chief Director (1996). He was also Artistic Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic (1978-79) and the Lahti Symphony (1984-87) orchestras.