Title: Piae Cantiones Artist: Andrew Lawrence-King Label: Alia Vox Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 8435408099325 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2020-02-07 Number of Discs: 1
Piae Cantiones (Spiritual Songs), the first Finnish music ever to be printed, was published in Greifswald in 1582. Although many of the texts are on religious themes, the Piae Cantiones songs are not hymns. They represent a varied repertoire sung as extra-curricular entertainment for students. Styles range from the lively dance-rhythms and catchy refrains of "Gaudete" and the cool renaissance counterpoint of "Jesu dulcis memoria" to the austere restraint of chant-like melody in "Angelus emittitur." Andrew Lawrence-King, who has been playing alongside Jordi Savall for decades, conducts the Utopia Chamber Choir in this vivid tribute to Finnish music.
Tracks: 1.1 Divinum Mysterium 1.2 Iucundare a 3 1.3 Iucundare a 4 1.4 Congaudeat Turba Fidelium 1.5 Angelus Emittitur 1.6 Paranymphus Adiens 1.7 Laus Virginis Nati Sonat 1.8 Personent Hodie 1.9 Zachæus Arboris Ascendit 1.10 Verbum Caro Factus Est 1.11 In Dulci Iubilo 1.12 Tempus Adest Floridum 1.13 Psallat Fidelis Concio 1.14 Psallat Scholarum Concio 1.15 O Quam Mundum 1.16 Ramus Virens Olivarum 1.17 Dies Est Læticiæ 1.18 Gaudete 1.19 Cedit Hiems Eminus 1.20 Omnis Mundus Iucundetur 1.21 Iesu Dulcis Memoria 1.22 Resonet in Laudibus 1.23 Puer Natus in Bethlehem
