Canções Nórdicas
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On a Sunday morning dedicated to music that comes from the North, one of the highlights is Finlandia, a work by Jean Sibelius that has become a true hymn to the Finnish nation and is presented here in a transcription for a choir. The symphonic poem, with strong traditional inspiration, was created for a patriotic procession in Helsinki during the Russian occupation and became a symbol of resistance. Sibelius, one of the greatest figures in Scandinavian music and the end of Romanticism, identified unique characteristics in Einojuhani Rautavaara, a musician he came across at the end of his life and who wrote works that have been widely praised at an international level. One of the most popular, composed in 1973, is based on texts by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. Among choral music of popular or religious inspiration, here one will also listen to recent compositions about texts by great authors from the past, such as Shakespeare and Petrarch.
