Tapiola Children's Choir - Marjatta the Lowly Maiden: Works for Children's - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

We have already introduced you to some of his symphonic music, chamber music, and songs, and a very positive review written in response to the first album will make you eager to hear more. Voilà The first album with piano works by Georg Schumann, who was the director of the Sing-Akademie in Berlin and a professor of composition at the Prussian Academy of the Arts! Today he is being discovered as a late Romanticist, but during his lifetime he was regarded as a Neoromanticist. Although Georg Schumann was not a descendant of Robert Schumann, he was from the same productive Saxon cultural landscape and from a highly musical family. Early in his life he developed into a brilliant pianist who already as a youth was able to perform challenging piano concertos. It is thus not surprising that the »master of the keys« also composed quality character pieces, impressive Inchatmospheric pictures,Inch and more works for the piano. This traces Schumann's path from his first piano compositions through to his more mature late works; in them we not only hear influences from Wagner, Liszt, and Chopin but also witness his gradual discovery of his own personal style. Album Tracks 1. Sechs Fantasien, Op. 36 (1904) 2. Stimmungsbilder Op. 2 (1886) 3. Drei Stücke Op. 1 (1886) 4. Drei Stücke Op. 23 (1901)

Album Tracks 1. Finlandia Hymn/Song of My Heart 2. Summer Twilight/Sleep, My Child, Sleep 3. Prayer 4. To Us a Festival Is Given 5. Evening 6. Evening Song 7. Burro Matti (Lappish Jojk) 8. Song of Finland/Our Country 9. The Winter Was Hard 10. Three Japanese Songs 11. Maria, the Lord's Little Maiden 12. A Son Is Born in Bethlehem/Let Me Praise Jesus 13. Rejoice, Daughter of Sion 14. Let Us Chant 15. In the Hay By the Oxen's Trough 16. Oh Nightingale, Come! 17. The Snow Is Falling 18. I Kneel Down at Your Manger 19. Marjatta, Lowly Maiden, Finnish Mystery

Album Tracks 1. Chamber Music I, Opus 38 - Jan-Olav Wedin 2. Chamber Music II, Opus 41 - Okko Kamu 3. Quattro Per Quattro, Opus 12 - Gunilla Von Bahr 4. Chaconne for Organ - Folke Forsman 5. Vintern Var HÅRD - Erkki Pohjola 6. Sakura - Erkki Pohjola 7. I. Man Made from Sleep - Taru Valjakka 8. II. Cradle Song for a Dead Horseman - Taru Valjakka 9. III. Three Dreams Each Within Each - Taru Valjakka 10. IV. There Is No Stream - Taru Valjakka 11. Simple Simme and Homeless Hamme - Jorma Hynninen