Rautavaara: Complete Works for Male Choir

YL Male Voice Choir, cond. Matti Hyökki, tenor Tuomas Katajala, Talla Vocal Ensemble, art.dir. Pasi Hyökki
Ondine 2008 (ODE 1125-2D)

This double CD contains all the a cappella male choir compositions by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Recording has received great critical acclaim in international press and it was chosen as the CD of the month by Gramophone-magazine on January 2009.

CD1

Laulaja (The Singer)
Syksy virran suussa (Autumn at the Rivermouth)
Two Preludes of T.S. Eliot
I. Winter Evening
II. The Morning Comes
Kaksi psalmia (Two Psalms)
Psalmi 23
Psalmi 130
Ave Maria
Joulun virsi (Christmas Hymn)
Elämän kirja (A Book of Life)
I. Kindheit (Childhood)
II. Ma bohème (My Bohemian life)
III. L'Amoureuse (One in love)
IV. Vanitas! Vanitatum vanitas
V. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
VI. Are You Ready?
VII. Huojuva keula (The swaying prow)
VIII. Le Bain (Swimming)
IX. Me emme kuole koskaan (We shall never die)
X. Så var det (So it was)
XI. Song of Myself

CD2

Neljä laulua Aleksis Kiven runoihin (Four Songs to Poems by Aleksis Kivi)

I. Ikävyys (Melancholy)
II. Olven kunnia (The glory of beer)
III. Oravan laulu (The squirrel)
IV. Sydämeni laulu (Song of my heart)
Legenda (Legend)
Lehdet lehtiä (Leaves are Leaves)
Neljä serenadia (Four Serenades)
I. Serenade für meine Frau (Serenade to my wife)
II. La mort des pauvres (Serenade to death)
III. Serenadien serenadi (Serenade of Serenades)
IV. Serenadi oluelle (Serenade to beer)
Hammarskjöld-fragment
Isontalon Antti ja Rannanjärvi (Antti Isotalo and Rannanjärvi)
Hallin Janne (Janne of Halli)
Kettu ja sairas kukko (The Fox and the Sick Cockerel)

Neljä romanssia oopperasta Rasputin (Four Romances from the Opera Rasputin)
I. Lävitse kimmeltävän yön (Through the glimmering night)
II. Kaukana on minun maani (Far away lies my homeland)
III. Troikka kiitää (The troika speeds)
IV. Kuu kelmeä vain virtaan kuvastuu (Moonlight is pale upon the river)