Noten für Chorleiter

Commissionata dalla Pacific Lutheran University per rendere omaggio all’eredità del direttore d’orchestra Richard Nance. Eseguita per la prima volta dal PLU Choir of the West, diretto da Raul Domingue...

A revised edition with three stylistically different songs based on old Estonian folk songs. The texts are given also in English.

Jalkanen's works have ethnic drive. This commission from the Kalevala society was premiered at Uspenski Cathedral in October 2007. Duration ca 5 minutes; text in Russian.

As if in homage to choral history, Rautavaara's Credo from 1972 departs from chant-like beginnings, passing through homophony and polyphony towards a modern synthesis of all its elements. It is equall...