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Music and Silence in Finnish Symbolism

Photo album + CD
accompanying the Ateneum Art Museum's 2007 summer exhibition

ODE 684-2 · CD · June 2007

Track listing

9 tracks · 64:10

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Erkki Melartin

  1. Symphony No. 4, Op. 80, "Summer Symphony" (1912)
  2. 1 III. Andante 14:45

Jean Sibelius

  1. Lemminkäinen Legends, Op. 22
  2. 2 III. Tuonelan joutsen (The Swan of Tuonela) 9:56
  3. Pelleas & Melisande, Op. 46
  4. 3 VIII. Melisanden kuolema (The Death of Melisande) 5:29

Väinö Raitio

  1. 4 Fantasia poetica, Op. 25 (1923) 10:01

Ernest Pingoud

  1. 5 Le Prophète (Prophet), Op. 21 (1921) 10:45

Leevi Madetoja

  1. Two Songs from Okon Fuoko Suite, Op. 58 (1925-1927)
  2. 6 Yiais Sang I (Song of Yiai I) 2:37
  3. 7 Yiais Sang II (Song of Yiai II) 2:14

Erkki Melartin

  1. 8 Kerjäläislapsen kehtolaulu (Lullaby for a Beggar Boy) 3:28
  2. 9 Sade (Rain), from Surullinen puutarha (The Melancholy Garden), Op. 52 (1908) 4:55

About this recording

This CD was produced in connection with the Helsinki Ateneum Art Museum's 2007 summer exhibition Music and Silence. Finnish Symbolism (15 June - 2 Sept) and replaced the traditional exhibition catalogue. The contained selection of Finnish Symbolist music was played in the "music room" of the exhibition to help the visitor experience the Symbolist idea of dialogue between different forms of art, and in particular the deep understanding between music and painting in the Symbolist era. The 32-page richly illustrated booklet contains an article written by the curator of the exhibition, French art historian Laura Gutman-Hanhivaara, as well as illustrations of works from the exhibition. More information about the exhibition can be found at the Ateneum's website.

This compilation features
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Grin, with soprano Pia Freund, mezzo Lilli Paasikivi and contralto Laura Nykänen (1),
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Leif Segerstam (2),
Tapiola Sinfonietta under Tuomas Ollila (3),
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste (4) and Sakari Oramo (5),
soprano Helena Juntunen with pianist Gustav Djupsjöbacka (6-7),
pianist Izumi Tateno (8-9).

Features

Digipak with full colour booklet, containing liner notes in Finnish and English, song lyrics in the original language and in English, and numerous illustrations

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