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Cover: Hymns in Finnish. – Soile Isokoski laulaa virsiä

Hymns in Finnish.

Soile Isokoski laulaa virsiä

Soile Isokoski, soprano
Marita Viitasalo, piano & reed organ

ODE 1070-2 · CD · October 2005

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Track listing

20 tracks · 61:11

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Anonymous

  1. 1 50 Jumalaa kiittää sieluni 3:06
  2. 2 230 Lahjoistas, Jeesus, pyhistä 2:22

Martti Hela

  1. 3 276 Jeesuksesta laulan 2:46

Huugo Nyberg

  1. 4 288 Silmäisi eteen, Jeesus 2:12

E. G. O.

  1. 5 289 Vain sinä tunnet minut, Vapahtaja 1:52

Anonymous

  1. 6 315 Valvoa mun, Jeesus, anna 4:17

Caroline Walla Sørlie

  1. 7 318 Jeesus, sä ainoa heikkojen auttaja 2:48

Oscar Ahnfelt

  1. 8 338 Päivä vain ja hetki kerrallansa 2:49

Anonymous

  1. 9 340 Herrasta veisaa kieleni 2:37

Oskar Merikanto

  1. 10 341a Kiitos Sulle Jumalani (Thank You, My God) 3:26

Anonymous

  1. 11 382 Sinuhun turvaan, Jumala 6:35

Johann Schop

  1. 12 470 Kirkkaat riemun äänet soivat 3:07

Rudolf Lagi

  1. 13 490 Mä silmät luon ylös taivaaseen 3:14

Ivar Widéen

  1. 14 492 Ystävä sä lapsien 2:22

William Mason

  1. 15 498 Nyt kulkee halki korpimaan 2:19

Anonymous

  1. 16 525 Suurempi kuin sydämeni 4:57

Henrik (Heikki) William Pöyhtäri

  1. 17 531 Lähtöhetken lähetessä 3:33

Armas Maasalo

  1. 18 548 Tule kanssani, Herra Jeesus 2:28

Sofie Lithenius

  1. 19 563 Ilta on tullut, Luojani 1:19

Leevi Madetoja

  1. 20 626 Tuolla taivaan asunnoissa 3:02

About this recording

This CD features star soprano Soile Isokoski and her long-time accompanist Marita Viitasalo with an anthology from the Finnish hymn book. Recorded by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) between 2002-04, this selection of twenty hymns forms the first volume to "Hymns in Finnish. Soile Isokoski laulaa virsiä".

Track nos. 3-5, 7 and 8 feature Marita Viitasalo on reed organ.

Features

Booklet with liner notes in Finnish and English and the song lyrics in the original Finnish

The artists

Soile Isokoski

Soile Isokoski is recognized as one of the world's finest lyric sopranos. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she gave her début recital in Helsinki in 1986 and subsequently won a number of important international singing competitions. She made her début at the Finnish National Opera as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and has since delighted audiences and critics alike at opera houses in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, London, Milan and Paris, at The Metropolitan Opera and at music festivals in Salzburg, Savonlinna, Edinburgh and Orange.

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Marita Viitasalo

Marita Viitasalo began her performing career after winning a prize in the Maj Lind Piano Competition. She studied with Professor Timo Mikkilä at the Sibelius Academy and went on to study at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome on a scholarship, completing her final examination there in 1971. She then studied with Professor Dieter Weber at the Vienna Music Academy for four years and completed a piano diploma with excellent marks both at the Sibelius Academy (1972) and in Vienna (1976).

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