Lars Karlsson: Två körvisor för diskantkör (Two songs for descant choir)
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Lars Karlsson: Två körvisor för diskantkör (Two songs for descant choir)

for SSAA choirText: Gustav Fröding (Swedish)These short songs have a feeling of folk music. Äktenskapsfrågan studies the problems of married life in a humoristic way. Kung Liljekonvalje is a swinging elegy and tells a fairytale of the lilies of the valley deep in the forest. 55011-463-0, € 4,20

Armas Järnefelt: Miranda
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Armas Järnefelt: Miranda

Järnefelt’s first composition for stage was music for Topelius’s play Miranda (1901). It is a melodrama, 30 minutes in duration, with recitation and choral parts. The story is a fairytale of young Miranda in search for love, surrounded by kings and suitors arond the world. The music includes elegantly swinging waltzes and Oriental colours. Orchestral…