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De Navitate
1] Angelus emittitur
2] Salve flos et decor
3] Verbum caro factum est
4] Congaudeat turba fidelium (instr)
5] Parvulus nobis nascitur
6] Personent hodie
7] Nobis est natus hodie
8] Paranymphus adiens 2st
De Passione
9] Iucundare iugiter 3st
10] Aetas carmen melodiae 2st
11] Aetas carmen melodiae 4st
De Fragilitate et miseriis
12] Kurja, paha syntinen
13] Mars praecurrit in planetis
14] Cum sit omnis caro foenum
De vita scholastica
15] Scholares convenite
16] Zachaeus arboris
17] O Scholares discite
18] Sum in aliena provincia
De Tempore Vernali
19] Ad perennis vitae fontem
20] In vernali tempore
21] Tempus adest floridum
22] Kaikki mailma riemuitkohon
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The Piae Cantiones (1582) is Finland’s one and only collection of early music and reflection of Europe’s medieval musical heritage. Zefiro Torna performs these beautiful carols, devote and student songs with 15th-16th century instruments and includes a children’s choir. The discrete but charming use of a kantele introduces a Finnish-ing touch to the sound.
The majority of the compositions belongs to the Germanic-Bohemian cantio tradition. There are also links to French, Spanish and Italian sources and to Flemish masters such as Jacob Obrecht. The religious songs — the majority being Christmas songs — are grouped together according to the liturgical year. The remaining songs deal with the transitory character of earthly life, the human condition, the life of schoolchildren, Biblical subjects and the rebirth of Nature in the spring.
Very few collections of music from the 16th century are so strongly anchored in contemporary musical life as the Piae Cantiones are in Finland today, becoming a fixed part of Finnish choral and religious music with the flowering of Finnish nationalism and romanticism in the early 20th century. Variants of these cantiones can be found in Finland’s religious folk music, whilst many composers have also made arrangements of the songs, including Jean Sibelius in his ‘Carminalia’.
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