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Cover: Soile Isokoski – Suomeni suloksi (Finnish Songs)

Soile Isokoski

Suomeni suloksi (Finnish Songs)

Soile Isokoski, soprano
Marita Viitasalo, piano

ODE 963-2 · CD · November 2000

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Track listing

28 tracks · 66:09

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Erkki Melartin

  1. 1 Minä metsän polkuja kuljen (Along forest paths I wander) 1:49
  2. 2 Mirjamin laulu I (Miriam's Song I) 1:40
  3. 3 Mirjamin laulu II (Miriam's Song II) 3:13

Ahti Sonninen

  1. 4 Älä kutsu kukkaseksi (Do Not Call Me Flower) 2:11

Ilmari Hannikainen

  1. 5 Rauha (Peace) 2:17
  2. 6 Oi äiti armas (O Mother Dear) 2:30
  3. 7 Rannalla istuja (Sitting on the Shore) 3:28

Väinö Hannikainen

  1. 8 Marja-Liisa 2:20

Heino Kaski

  1. 9 Taas kaukaa laulavat lauluaan (From Afar I Hear Them Singing Again) 1:27
  2. 10 Lähdettyäs (After You Went Away) 2:36

Fredrik Pacius

  1. 11 Balladi, oopperasta: Kaarle kuninkaan metsästys (Ballad, from: the Hunt of King Charles) 4:35
  2. 12 Laps' Suomen (Child of Finland) 4:21

Yrjö Kilpinen

  1. 13 Illalla (In the Evening) 1:55
  2. 14 Kesäyö (Summer Night) 1:56
  3. 15 Rannalta I (From the Shore I) 2:46
  4. 16 Maassa marjani makaavi (My Love Lies in the Ground) 4:11

Oskar Merikanto

  1. 17 Pai, pai paitaressu (Bye Bye My Sweet Swaddled Baby) 2:08
  2. 18 Metsäkyyhkyset (The Wood-doves) 2:46
  3. 19 Kun päivä paistaa (When the Sun Shines) 2:07
  4. 20 Omenankukat (Apple blossom) 1:25
  5. 21 Rukous (Ave Maria) 2:30
  6. 22 Kullan murunen (You Are a Nugget of Gold) 1:35
  7. 23 Kuin hiipuva hiillos tummentuu (Like the Dying Embers Grow Dark) 1:35
  8. 24 Ma elän! (I Am Alive!) 1:35
  9. 25 Kottarainen (The Starling) 0:56
  10. 26 Laula, tyttö (Sing to Me, Girl) 0:59
  11. 27 Kevätlinnuille etelässä (To The Spring Birds in The South) 1:47

Kalervo Hämäläinen

  1. 28 Lapin äidin kehtolaulu (A Lapland Mother's Lullaby) 3:31

Features

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

The artists

Soile Isokoski

Soile Isokoski is recognized as one of the world's finest lyric sopranos. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she gave her début recital in Helsinki in 1986 and subsequently won a number of important international singing competitions. She made her début at the Finnish National Opera as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and has since delighted audiences and critics alike at opera houses in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, London, Milan and Paris, at The Metropolitan Opera and at music festivals in Salzburg, Savonlinna, Edinburgh and Orange.

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Marita Viitasalo

Marita Viitasalo began her performing career after winning a prize in the Maj Lind Piano Competition. She studied with Professor Timo Mikkilä at the Sibelius Academy and went on to study at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome on a scholarship, completing her final examination there in 1971. She then studied with Professor Dieter Weber at the Vienna Music Academy for four years and completed a piano diploma with excellent marks both at the Sibelius Academy (1972) and in Vienna (1976).

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