Karita Mattila
Best of Evergreens
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Pekka Savijoki, conductor
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
Peter Lerche, guitar
Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Riku Niemi, conductor
Ilmo Ranta, piano
Karita Mattila, soprano
Track listing
19 tracks · 60:56Harold Arlen
- 1 Over the Rainbow, from: The Wizard of Oz 4:51
Frederick Loewe
- 2 I Could Have Danced All Night, from: My Fair Lady 2:32
Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 3 Memory, from: Cats 4:17
Leo Leandros
- 4 Tango d'amor 3:39
Theo Mackeben
- 5 Itke en lemmen tähden (orig. Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen...), from: Es war eine rauchsende Ballnacht 3:28
Friedrich Holländer
- 6 Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt (Falling In Love Again) 4.07
Jules Styne
- 7 Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend 3:45
George Gershwin
- 8 Summertime 2:34
Lasse Mårtenson
- 9 Myrskyluodon Maija (Stormscar's Maya) 5:25
- 10 Laulu suuresta merestä (Song of the Open Sea) 3:25
- 11 Aamu-usva (Morning Haze) 3:45
- 12 Valssi myötäiseen (Waltzing Off the Wind) 3:01
- 13 Ihminen ihmiselle (What Have We Done to Each Other) 3:39
Oskar Merikanto
- 14 Kullan murunen (You Are a Nugget of Gold) 1:23
- 15 Pai, pai paitaressu (Bye Bye My Sweet Swaddled Baby) 2:40
- 16 Soi vienosti murheeni soitto (Play Softly, Thou Tune of My Mourning) 2:11
Traditional
- 17 Minun kultani kaunis on (Ah, How Fair My Sweetheart Is) 1:32
- 18 Tule, tule kultani (Come, Hurry My Darling) 2:31
Johannes Brahms
- 19 Wiegenlied, Op. 49/4 2:11
Features
Booklet with liner notes in English and Finnish and the song lyrics
The artists
Tapiola Sinfonietta
The Tapiola Sinfonietta has established itself as Finland’s premier chamber orchestra. Founded as the Espoo City Orchestra in 1987, it currently has 44 members. The orchestra is known for its adventurous repertoire planning and has been widely acclaimed for nuanced performances across a wide range of eras and styles.
Pekka Savijoki
Pekka Savijoki initially studied the saxophone at the Sibelius Academy and the Paris Conservatoire, graduating in 1977. He completed his conducting studies in 1986. He has led nearly all of Finland's professional orchestras and also the Swedish orchestras in Norrköping, Helsingborg, Uumaja and Västerås. Savijoki has also conducted performances at the Finnish National Opera, the Stockholm Folk Opera, the Music Theatre of Malmö, among others.
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO) is the orchestra of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle), and its mission is to produce and promote Finnish musical culture.