Lawrence-King,Andrew 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.

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. Zachµus 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 Lµticiµ 18. Gaudete 19. Cedit Hiems Eminus 20. Omnis Mundus Iucundetur 21. Iesu Dulcis Memoria 22. Resonet in Laudibus 23. Puer Natus in Bethlehem