Noten für Chorleiter

A revised edition with three stylistically different songs based on old Estonian folk songs. The texts are given also in English.

Jalkanen's works have ethnic drive. This commission from the Kalevala society was premiered at Uspenski Cathedral in October 2007. Duration ca 5 minutes; text in Russian.

As if in homage to choral history, Rautavaara's Credo from 1972 departs from chant-like beginnings, passing through homophony and polyphony towards a modern synthesis of all its elements. It is equall...

Drömmarna (The Dreams) saw the light of day in 1917. It is a short but intensive and sonorous work to a text by Jonathan Reuter (in Swedish) with a Finnish translation by Reijo Norio.