# Piae Cantiones: Early Finnish Vocal Music

> Piae Cantiones: Early Finnish Vocal Music – Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Timo Nuoranne. Ondine ODE 918-2, CD, released November 1998.

Source: https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-918-2

- **Composer:** Piae Cantiones
- **Work(s):** Early Finnish Vocal Music
- **Performers:** Finnish Radio Chamber Choir; Timo Nuoranne, conductor
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 918-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 November 1998
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195091821
- **Tracks:** 27, total 66:27
- **Genres:** Finnish traditional, Choral

## Track listing

**Anonymous**

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

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## Related pages

- [Anonymous](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/anonymous.md)
- [Timo Nuoranne, Conductor](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/nuoranne-timo.md)

## Also recommended

- [Memoria Sancti Henrici: Medieval Plainchant to the Patron Saint of Finland](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-874-2.md): Köyhät Ritarit, vocal ensembles (ODE 874-2, 1995)