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Cover: Loista joulun tähtönen! – Christmas Carols and Arias

Loista joulun tähtönen!

Christmas Carols and Arias

Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano
Sympaatti Youth Choir
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Markus Lehtinen, conductor

ODE 857-2 · CD · October 1995

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Track listing

18 tracks · 54:01

Otto Kotilainen

  1. 1 Kun joulu on (At Christmas Time) 2:29

Heino Kaski

  1. 2 Mökit nukkuu lumiset (The Snowbound Cabins Sleep) 3:50

Franz Gruber

  1. 3 Jouluyö, juhlayö (Silent Night, Holy Night) 3:01

Traditional

  1. 4 Heinillä härkien kaukalon (There in the Hay of the Ox's Stall) 3:37

Gustav Nordqvist

  1. 5 Jul, jul strålande jul (Yule, Yule, Radiant Yule) 3:44

Alice Téger

  1. 6 Betlehems stjärna (Star of Bethlehem ) 3:43

Max Reger

  1. 7 Marie Wiegenlied (Maria's Lullaby) 2:15

Leevi Madetoja

  1. 8 Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä (Cast Off Thy Everyday Cares) 1:49

Sulho Ranta

  1. 9 Taas kaikki kauniit muistot (Those Memories Fair of Old) 2:25

Karl Collan

  1. 10 Sylvian joululaulu (Sylvia's Carol) 2:47

Selim Palmgren

  1. 11 Ja neitsyt pikku poijuttansa (The Virgin Rocks Her Baby Boy) 1:40

Johann A. P. Schulz

  1. 12 Te lapsoset, lapsoset kiiruhtakaa (Hurry, Children) 3:42

Otto Kotilainen

  1. 13 Varpunen jouluaamuna (A Sparrow on Christmas Morning) 3:52

Erkki Melartin

  1. 14 Kristuslapsen kehtolaulu (The Christchild's Lullaby) 3:49

Hugo Wolf

  1. 15 Schlafendes Jesuskind (The Sleeping Christchild) 3:04
  2. 16 Nun wandre Maria (Make Your Way, Maria) 2:43

Johann Sebastian Bach

  1. 17 O Jesulein süß (O Little Jesus) 2:54
  2. 18 Ave Maria (Hail Mary) 2:37

Features

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

The artists

Monica Groop

Finnish mezzo-soprano Monica Groop has been recognised for her amazing versatility in a wide-ranging repertoire that spans baroque music through classical to contemporary and has performed in many of the world's leading opera houses and orchestras such as Covent Garden, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. She has worked with conductors as diverse as Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Roger Norrington, Ivor Bolton, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Christoph Eschenbach.

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Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, comprising 97 musicians, is one of Scandinavia's leading symphony orchestras. In autumn 2013, young Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali succeeded Hannu Lintu as new Chief Conductor and continued in his post until 2023.

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