Andrew Lawrence-King - Piae Cantiones (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Divinum Mysterium
2. Iucundare a 3
3. Iucundare a 4
4. Congaudeat Turba Fidelium
5. Angelus Emittitur
6. Paranymphus Adiens
7. Laus Virginis Nati Sonat
8. Personent Hodie
9. Zachæus Arboris Ascendit
10. Verbum Caro Factus Est
11. In Dulci Iubilo
12. Tempus Adest Floridum
13. Psallat Fidelis Concio
14. Psallat Scholarum Concio
15. O Quam Mundum
16. Ramus Virens Olivarum
17. Dies Est Læticiæ
18. Gaudete
19. Cedit Hiems Eminus
20. Omnis Mundus Iucundetur
21. Iesu Dulcis Memoria
22. Resonet in Laudibus
23. Puer Natus in Bethlehem