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Cover: Piae Cantiones – Early Finnish Vocal Music

Piae Cantiones

Early Finnish Vocal Music

Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Timo Nuoranne, conductor

ODE 918-2 · CD · November 1998

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Track listing

27 tracks · 66:27

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

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  1. 1 Iucundare iugiter 1:38
  2. 2 Iucundare iugiter 2:40
  3. 3 Cedit hiems eminus 3:26
  4. 4 Cedit hiems eminus 3:26
  5. 5 Aetas carmen melodiae 1:19
  6. 6 Aetas carmen melodiae 1:39
  7. 7 Iesu dulcis memoria 3:04
  8. 8 Ramus virens olivarum 6:51
  9. 9 Ave funda Davidis 2:00
  10. 10 Zachaeus arboris 1:32
  11. 11 Puer natus in Bethlehem 3:11
  12. 12 De radice processerat 3:35
  13. 13 Verbum caro factum est 2:35
  14. 14 Omnis mundus iucundetur 0:44
  15. 15 Paranymphus adiens 1:28
  16. 16 Laetetur Ierusalem 1:28
  17. 17 Resonet in laudibus 2:48
  18. 18 Jumalisten joucko 2:15
  19. 19 Ad cantus laetitiae 0:46
  20. 20 Parvulus nobis nascitur 1:48
  21. 21 Kunniallisuuden hyvyys 2:52
  22. 22 Vanitatum vanitas 1:59
  23. 23 Coeperit faustis 3:51
  24. 24 Insignis est figura 2:17
  25. 25 Mars praecurrit in planetis 2:56
  26. 26 Mirum si laeteris 2:19
  27. 27 Ad perennis vitae fontem 2:00

About this recording

The medieval Latin songs on this recording are taken from the collection of Piae Cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum ('Devout ecclesiastical and school songs of the old bishops'). Its first edition was published in 1582 by Theodoricus Petri Nylandensi (also known as Theodoric Petri of Nyland; c. 1560-1630). The first Finnish edition of the songs dating from 1616 contains among the earliest Finnish poetry.

Intended for the pupils of the Turku Cathedral School, these mostly religious and partly secular songs were originally compiled by its rector Jacobus Finno and remained popular in Finnish schools until the 19th century. The Piae Cantiones collection of songs is without doubt one of Finland's greatest musical treasures, forming a link to the European cultural centres of the Middle Ages.

Features

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish and the sung texts in the original Latin and in Finnish

The artists

Timo Nuoranne

Timo Nuoranne was Artistic Director of the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir between 1997 and 2004, when the ensemble became the Helsinki Chamber Choir. A graduate in choral conducting and piano playing from the Sibelius Academy, he at present teaches choral conducting on Academy's degree programme in church music and acts as Artistic Director of the Tampere Philharmonic Choir.

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