Singers.com: The Musica Choir: Regina Angelorum (00 1 CD)

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The Musica Choir: Regina Angelorum

Kyrie
Gloria
In Deo salutare meum
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Ave Maria
Regina angelorum
Laudate pueri
Te Deum

Directed by Pekka Kostiainen

This excellent recording features the most important church music Kostiainen composed for a cappella choir and here sung by The Musica Choir. The title work Regina Angelorum is one of best known work for the female choir by Kostiainen. Kostiainen was awarded the 'Goldene Stimmgabel' prize of the European Association of Choirmasters in the year 1995.

3174 00 1 CD $15.95   Mixed | Chorus | Finland | A Cappella | Finnish Choral Music

Singers.com: The Musica Choir: I've Got a Sweetheart (00 1 CD)

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The Musica Choir: I've Got a Sweetheart

Mull on heila ihana
Lankoiseni, lintuiseni
Ellos nyt hyva isoni
Siita paivan kiinni saapi
Yo alinomainen
Hiilella piirretyt puut
Rikasmies ja aarreaitta
Unberuhmter Ort
An meinen altesten Sohn
Viatonten valssi
Jaakobin isot pojat
Veret tuli mun silimihini
Hyvaa iltaa kultaseni

Directed by Pekka Kostiainen

The Musica Choir recorded the 3rd part of Kostiainen conducts Kostiainen' series, I've Got a Sweetheart, in the year 2000. On disc you can hear among others the best known folklore based works for the mixed choir, such as the title song and the arrangement for choir of the Ostrobthnian folk song 'Veret tuli mun silimihini' (I Got Tears in These Eyes of Mine). In addition there is maybe the most often performed piece of work by Kostiainen 'Jaakobin (isot) pojat' (The (Grown-up) Sons of Jacob) and some new works composed into Kalevala texts. SULASOL (The Finnish Association of Choirs) and The Finnish Association of Choirmasters selected this disc as 'A Choir Disc of The Year 2000'. The Musica Choir had the honor to be the first choir receiving this award to outside the Capital City of Finland.

3176 00 1 CD $15.95   Mixed | Chorus | Finland | A Cappella | Finnish Choral Music

Singers.com: The Musica Choir: Boy or Girl? (00 1 CD)

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The Musica Choir: Boy or Girl?

Greeting at the cross-roads
Boy or girl?
Mari's berries
Mari spoiled by the soldiers
What was it that me created?
Mourning for her birth
Greeting at the cross-roads
The groom's entourage sets off for the bridal manor
The groom's entourage arrives at the closed gate of the bridal manor
The groom will not alight until he has been greeted
The groom's entourage salutes the bride's home and asks after the bride
As the groom removes his gear, a choir of maidens salutes him and his entourage
The choir of maidens continues, asking how and by what way the groom's entourage found the bridal manor
The groom's entourage replies that they came along the Lord's highway, following the smell of beer from the bridal manor
The women in the groom's entourage tell the spokesman to purchase the groom the seat of honour at the table
The women sing a song of thanksgiving as the groom sits down at table
The choir of maidens wonders at what took the groom so long
The groom's spokesman, defending the groom, says the groom has visited his father's grave that morning
The Leader
The Service
The Wise
The Office
The Moral
The Collaboboration
The Tree of Knowledge
The Compasion
The Roundelay
Pakko, boy of wicked lineage
Would have frozen Ahti also
You have more than you can do
Go and do some magic freezing
And now I shall trace your lineage
Then you rode along the fences
Now that you have grown so big
To the way-back fields of Northland
In among the demon's coals
I'll take your mouth to summer's land
Let us make a firm agreement

Directed by Pekka Kostiainen

Kostiainen conducts Kostiainen' discs was released in 2003. The Musica Choir recorded Kostiainen's suites for a mixed choir, partially based on Ingrian folklore lyrics (The Bridegroom's Arrival Songs 1- II and Mary's Story), some texts for the works are selected from the national epic Kalevala (The Tracing of Frost). On the disc there are also some humour Kostiainen likes to cultivate in his works i.e. The Satirical Suite to the lyrics by Lauri Viita.

3177 00 1 CD $15.95   Mixed | Chorus | Finland | A Cappella | Finnish Choral Music

Singers.com: The Musica Choir: Oh Lord, Please Take my Hand (00 1 CD)

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The Musica Choir: Oh Lord, Please Take my Hand

Guardian Angel
Now through the wilderness
This blessed summertime
Abide, my soul, by the will of the Lord
Whence shall I seek refuge?
Be prepared, people of the Lord
Hosanna, He cometh
The King on high
A star once in the sky
Rise up, ye vales and valleys
When you, oh Lord, are with me
A treasure beyond compare
Behold the Lamb of God
A path leads from the garden to Golgotha
Come all and behold
You rose from your grave
I praise and thank Thee
When our defence is in God
I bring you from your angels
Thanks be to Thee, Oh God
Awake, tardy souls
May your hand, oh Lord, protect
A stronghold safe
The coming of Christ
Before Thee, Jesus, once again
Evening has fallen, Creator
The traveller's thoughts return
The ways we once all travel
My kantele

Directed by Pekka Kostiainen

On March 2007 was released the disc 'Oh Lord, please take my hand' where the Musica Choir recorded Pekka Kostieinen's choral arrangements of the well known and also not so well known Finnish psalms and spiritual hymns. Psalm arr.s at the same time are a minor cross section about the career of the composer, the oldest are from 60s and the latest from 2000-tale. This is the 5th disc of the series 'Kostiainen conducts Kostiainen'

3178 00 1 CD $15.95   Mixed | Chorus | Finland | A Cappella | Finnish Choral Music