tracks

Karelia Music (1893)
Overture
Tableau 1: Karelian Home - Runic Song, Interrupted By War Music (1293)
Tableau 2: The Founding Of Viipuri Castle (1293)
Tableau 3: Narimont, The Duke Of Lithuania, Levying Taxes In The Provence Of Käkisalmi (1333)
Intermezzo (I)
Tableau 4: Ballade - Karl Knuttson In Viipuri Castle (1446)
Tableau 5: Pontus De La Gardie At The Gates Of Käkisalmi (1580)
Intermezzo (II): Alla Marcia
Tableau 6: The Siege Of Viipuri (1710)
Tableaux 7/8: The Reunion Of Old Finland [Karelia] With The Rest Of Finland (1811) - The Finnish National Anthem "Our Land"
Press Celebrations Music (1899)
Preludio
Tableau I: The Song Of Väinämöinen
Tableau 2: The Finns Are Baptised
Tableau 3: Duke John At Turku Castle
Tableau 4: The Finns In The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
Tableau 5: The Great Hostility (Period Of War Between 1713-1721)
Tableau 6: Finland Awakes

notes

World premiere recording of complete Press Celebrations Music (1899). Karelia Music: complete version reconstructed by Jouni Kaipainen in 1997.

Cover painting: E. Isto: The Attack [1899] . National Museum of Finland.

credits

Baritone Vocals – Juha Kotilainen (tracks: 6)
Choir – Tampere Philharmonic Choir (tracks: 10)
Composed By – Jean Sibelius
Conductor – Tuomas Ollila
Engineer – Enno Mäemets
Executive-Producer – Reijo Kiilunen
Orchestra – Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Producer – Seppo Siirala
Soprano Vocals – Anna-Kaisa Liedes (tracks: 2), Tellu Virkkala

companies

Made By – DADC Austria
Recorded At – Tampere Hall

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