Mezzoid@a... wrote:
> I am putting together an application for a competition featuring the
> music of
> Finnish composer Yrjo Kilpinen. For a variety of reasons, I have not yet
> ordered/received the music for the 2nd and 3rd rounds and I need to
> select a
> couple of songs, two in Finnish, three in Finnish/German/Swedish.
Hi Christine,
I picked up several books of Finnish songs, published by Fazer, a few
years ago while in Helsinki. The 2 volumes of Suomalaisia Yksinlauluja
contain 11 songs by Kilpinen, 7 originally in German, the rest in
Finnish. Most of them are fairly short (2 or 3 pages), and the range,
even in the high voice edition rarely goes above the staff. Two
contrasting and fairly short Finnish songs from book 1 are Laululle (To
the Song) marked andante cantabile and needing sustained and fairly
quiet singing; Tunturilaulu (Song of the Fells) marked allegro con anima
and needing a big sing with a large sustained ending. Both songs are
under 2 minutes on the Jorma Hynninen recording. Ihme (Wonder), also
from book 1 is a larger song marked allegro, jubiloso and requiring at
times an almost breathless delivery contrasting with a more dramatic
declamatory section and finishing with an expansive, rhapsodic section.
Finnish is a wonderful language to sing in. It is an entirely phonetic
vowel oriented language, every letter has one sound, and every letter is
pronounce
> retiring
> from choral singing would allow me to be more on top of things, but I
> still
> have to work on the procrastination problem.... <sigh>
I hear you!!
Cheers
Craig, Burnaby BC
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