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Hymns in Finnish.

Soile Isokoski laulaa virsiä 2

Soile Isokoski, soprano
Marita Viitasalo, piano

ODE 1117-2 · CD · September 2007

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Track listing

20 tracks · 60:57

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Jean Sibelius

  1. 1 31 Ei valtaa, kultaa, loistoa 3:13

Anonymous

  1. 2 40 Oi nimi kaikkein suloisin 3:31
  2. 3 42 On Jeesus nimi ihanin 2:01
  3. 4 180 Jeesus sanoi omillensa 2:37
  4. 5 204 Herra Jeesus, Hengelläsi 2:28

Melchior Vulpius

  1. 6 206 Taas kasvojesi eteen 2:13

Anonymous

  1. 7 225 Jeesus, luona armopöydän 4:48

Heikki Klemetti

  1. 8 298 Vapahtajani Jeesus on 3:57

Anonymous

  1. 9 317 Vain yksi nimi meille riittää 3:12

Rikhard Mäkinen

  1. 10 319 Sä kuljet seurassa Jeesuksen 3:57

Anonymous

  1. 11 337 Ei laulamasta lakkaa 1:37

Oscar Ahnfelt

  1. 12 338 Päivä vain ja hetki kerrallansa 2:50

Armas Maasalo

  1. 13 373 Jeesus, kuule rukoukset 2:47

Adam Drese

  1. 14 388 Jeesus, johdata tiemme kulkua 2:02

Armas Maasalo

  1. 15 493 Jeesus, lasten auttaja 2:20

Anonymous

  1. 16 518 Nyt anna, Herra, tultasi 3:57

Johann Steurlein

  1. 17 567 Ah, kuinka kevät hohtaa 2:40

Anonymous

  1. 18 571 Jo joutui armas aika (Suvivirsi) 4:27
  2. 19 576 Maa hohtaa lumivaipassansa 3:33

Erkki Melartin

  1. 20 600 Hyvyyden voiman ihmeelliseen suojaan 2:47

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 2002-05, this selection of twenty hymns forms the second volume to "Hymns in Finnish. Soile Isokoski laulaa virsiä".

Features

Booklet with liner notes and song lyrics in 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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