SKU: FG.042-07953-9

ISBN 979-0-042-07953-9.

Erik Bergman composed this work in 1984. It draws its text from two episodes in the Kalevala. In the music Bergman creates tension with a speech chorus, an element he first introduced in the Finnish choral music. The parts of Lemminkainen and his mother are taken by the baritone and mezzo-soprano soloists and the narration is primarily entrusted to the speaker. The musical language is a blend of the primitive and the sophisticated. The climax of the work is the battle scene, entertaining in its ingenuity and artistry.

SKU: FG.55011-064-9

Text: Kalevala.

SKU: BR.SON-607

ISBN 9790004802632. 10 x 12.5 inches.

No longer just a facsimile: Sibelius's Symphony No. 0 in a proper edition With the world premiere of Kullervo in 1892, Jean Sibelius staked his claim at the age of 27 to the front ranks of the symphonists of his day, long before he began writing his purely instrumental symphonies and tone poems. At the same time, he defined himself as a modern-day Finnish composer through his choice of the text from the Kalevala epic, whose title role he interpreted with modern psychological means. By the time Sibelius was celebrating his major international triumphs in the early 20th century, his Symphony No. 0 was long forgotten. After a provisory first edition of Kullervo in 1966, the work quickly gained the esteem of Sibelius conductors who also performed the work with the Finnish vocal text outside of their native country. Yet in spite of pioneer recordings such as those of Paavo Berglund, Colin Davis, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vanska, the grandiose work had not been adequately present in international concert life up to now not least because there was no practicable edition. The volumes of the Complete Edition edited by Glenda Dawn Goss now offer a musicologically accurate music text for the first time. This music text will form the basis for the projected performance material. The complete edition Jean Sibelius Werke intends to pave the way for a new evaluation of the Finnish composer and, in particular, of this hitherto editorially neglected work, the composer's only choral symphony.

SKU: FG.55011-566-8

ISBN 9790550115668.

A missa brevis for descant choir and piano (organ ad lib.) by Olli Kortekangas (b. 1955) gets a Finnish colour in Laudamus, of which text Luotujen virsi is a poem in Kalevala meter by Pekka Kivekas. The composer encourages to find different ways to perform the work: for example the chorus parts can be doubled or replaced by an obligato instrument.

SKU: FG.55011-285-8

ISBN 9790-55011-285-8. Language: Finnish.

Both these works date from 1996. Rondo is is a joyful work to a text from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. Rondino's text is based on Kanteletar. It won the Lahti International Children's Chorus composition contest in 1997.

SKU: FG.042-07993-5

ISBN 979-0-042-07993-5.

Act 1 from Klami's ballet which is skilfully orchestrated from the rehearsal score by Kalevi Aho. The subject matter for the ballet is the Forging of the Sampo from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

SKU: FG.042-12551-9

ISBN 979-0-042-12551-9.

A cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra inspired by texts from Kalevala. Sibelius wrote it in summer 1926 at the same time with his orchestral work Tapiola. Apart from Kullervo Sibelius wrote ca 15 works for chorus and orchestra.