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Lastenlaulujen aarreaitta

Oskari Pennanen, child soprano
Mari Palo, soprano
Kai Hyttinen, baritone
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor

ODE 1061-2 · CD · April 2005

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Track listing

16 tracks · 49:36

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Jukka Jarvola

  1. 1 Krokotiili Herbertti 2:39

Georg Malmstén

  1. 2 Tottelematon Tipi 3:16

Pekka Juhani Hannikainen

  1. 3 Oravanpesä 2:46

Traditional

  1. 4 Intiaanien laulu 2:19

Heikki Klemetti

  1. 5 Metsän laulajaiset (Feast of Woodland Song) 3:32

Traditional

  1. 6 Hyttys-Hubert 2:10

Kaj Chydenius

  1. 7 Magdaleena 3:32

Georg Malmstén

  1. 8 Jänöjussin mäenlasku 1:53

Ilkka Kuusisto

  1. 9 Viikonpäivät 4:08

Petter Ohls

  1. 10 Hyvin hiljaa 2:48

Georg Malmstén

  1. 11 Lasten liikennelaulu 4:31

Traditional

  1. 12 Kas, metsämökin ikkuna 2:56

Georg Malmstén

  1. 13 Sairas karhunpoika 3:22

Traditional

  1. 14 Elefanttimarssi 2:01
  2. 15 Kenelle tuuli laulaa 4:55

Petri Virtanen

  1. 16 Minun ystäväni 2:48

About this recording

Lastenlaulujen aarreaitta (Our Children’s Treasure Trove) features child soprano Oskari Pennanen, soprano Mari Palo and baritone Kai "Kuju" Hyttinen with famous Finnish children songs. They are accompanied by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Leif Segerstam.

Features

Booklet with liner notes and the song lyrics in Finnish

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.

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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the first professional symphony orchestra to be founded in the Nordic countries (1882), has grown from a band of 36 players to an orchestra of 102 regular members.

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Leif Segerstam

Leif Segerstam (1944-2024) received diplomas from the Sibelius Academy in violin and conducting. He won the Maj Lind Piano Competition in 1962 and gave his first violin recital in 1963. He rounded off his studies at the Juilliard School in New York, where he was awarded a conducting diploma in 1964.

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