Programme
- Two Songs from Kalender Röd
- Our Joyful'st Feast
- Dona nobis pacem
- Missa a cappella
- Iri da iri
Performers
- Nicholas Chalmersconductor
Composers
Concert Information
Music by teacher and pupil, complementary but distinctive, sits side by side in this focus on the two major Finnish composersâ choral music.
Einojuhani Rautavaara, who died in 2016, was one of Esa-Pekka Salonenâs teachers in Helsinki and this late-afternoon concert juxtaposes choral works by the two men. The conductor Nicholas Chalmers joins the ±«Óătv Singers for a programme of music set to texts that range from the Mass to Dante (2014âs Iri da iri). Rautavaaraâs Our Joyfulâst Feast sets English words with glorious results while his Missa a Capella (2011) builds on an earlier setting of the Credo from 1972. The concert opens with two songs setting the poetry of Ann JĂ€derlund, music of great sensuality that hearkens back to the counterpoint of Palestrina.