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Cover: Gabriel Suovanen – Sydämeni laulut

Gabriel Suovanen

Sydämeni laulut

Gabriel Suovanen, baritone
Ilkka Paananen, piano

ODE 954-2 · CD · April 2000

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Track listing

29 tracks · 51:05

Toivo Kuula

  1. Eteläpohjalaisia kansanlauluja (South Ostrobothnian Folk Songs)
  2. 1 I. Luullahan jotta on lysti olla 1:48
  3. 2 II. Pappani maja 1:23
  4. 3 III. Hae pois vaan sormukses 1:08

Taneli Kuusisto

  1. Savolaisia kansanlauluja
  2. 4 I. Kehtolaulu 1:37
  3. 5 II. Heilani kammarin ikkunan alla 0:44

Toivo Kärki

  1. 6 Laulelkaamme, soitelkaamme 0:40

Karl Collan

  1. 7 Hurtti-ukko 2:28

Oskar Merikanto

  1. 8 Lauantai-ilta 3:10
  2. 9 Muistellessa (Remembering) 3:31
  3. 10 Nocturne 2:28
  4. 11 Iltakellot 2:24
  5. 12 Hyvästi! 1:15
  6. 13 Tule kanssani 1:00
  7. 14 Oi, muistatko vielä sen virren 3:24
  8. 15 Kevätlinnuille etelässä (To The Spring Birds in The South) 1:29
  9. 16 Tuulantei 1:15

Selim Palmgren

  1. 17 Suvinen saari (Summer Island) 1:10
  2. 18 En latmansmelodi 1:37

Ilmari Hannikainen

  1. 19 Oi äiti armas (O Mother Dear) 2:08
  2. 20 Rauha (Peace) 1:52

Yrjö Kilpinen

  1. 21 Rosa lill' 1:42
  2. 22 Det var i vårens ljusa tid 1:20
  3. 23 Minnen 1:08

Jean Sibelius

  1. 24 Illalle (To Evening), Op. 17/6 1:23
  2. 25 Souda, souda, sinisorsa 1:08
  3. 26 Lastu lainehilla, Op. 17/7 1:00
  4. 27 Jägargossen 2:35
  5. 28 Våren flyktar hastigt, Op. 13/4 1:32
  6. 29 Demanten på marssön (The Diamond on the March Snow), Op. 36/6 2:46

About this recording

Finnish baritone Gabriel Suovanen is featured on his début recording with popular Finnish Lied repertoire from the 19th and 20h century.

Features

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

The artists

Gabriel Suovanen

Gabriel Suovanen was born in Stockholm, where he began playing the violin at the age of 4. He studied singing at the Sibelius Academy in 1993-94. He graduated from the Stockholm Opera School in the 1997-98 season. Gabriel Suovanen has won several prizes in distinguished singing competitions. In Finland he won the prestigious Timo Mustakallio singing competition in 1998 and was given the first Karita Mattila Award in 2000. In 1997-98 Gabriel Suovanen was appointed 'Soloist of the year' by the Swedish National Radio and subsequently appeared in several radio concerts and studio recordings with orchestra and as soloist. In the season 1998-99 he was engaged in several productions at the Stockholm Royal Opera. Suovanen made his debut at the Finnish National Opera as Guglielmo, at the Savonlinna Opera Festival as Valentin and at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Bizet's Carmen.

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Ilkka Paananen

Ilkka Paananen studied the piano with Jarmo Räty at the Kuopio Conservatory, with Eero Heinonen at the Sibelius Academy, with Phyllis Sellick in London and in masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Ralf Gothóni, Dalton Baldwin and others. He was the winner of the Maj Lind Piano Competition in 1982 and the Danish Sonning Foundation in 1985.

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