Erkki Melartin: Songs to Swedish Texts
The Finnish composer Erkki Melartin (1875–1937) wrote around 250 art-songs, often grouping settings of different languages and different dates into unrelated and sometimes untitled opus numbers. But what might be a nightmare for the musicologist is a treasure trove for the enthusiast for Nordic song, as this recital of some of the best of Melartin’s Swedish settings will prove, with music that often sounds rather like Sibelius tinged with French Impressionism.
Hedvig Paulig, soprano
Ilmo Ranta, piano
Jan Söderblom, violin (Tracks 10-13, 22)
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Four Runeberg Settings
- Mellan friska blomster (‘Among budding owers’), Op. 172, No. 2 (1931?)
- Flickans klagan (‘The Girl’s Lament’), Op. 14, No. 1 (1901)*
- Törnet (‘The Thornèd Rose’), Op. 170, No. 3 (1931)
- Stum kärlek (‘Silent Love’), Op. 116, No. 5 (1919)
- Mitt hjärta behöver… (‘My heart requires…’), Op. 116, No. 6 (1919)
- Under häggarna (‘Under the Bird-Cherry Trees’), Op. 86, No. 3 (1914)
- Bön om ro (‘Prayer for Rest’), Op. 122, No. 6 (1924)
- Elegie (‘Elegy‘), Op. 96, No. 1 (1916)
- Akvarell (‘Watercolour‘), Op. 96, No. 2 (1916)
- No. 1 Skyar (‘Clouds’) (1914)
- No. 2 Sagan om vårt hjärta (‘The Tale of our Heart’) (1918)
- No. 3 Smärtan (‘The Pain’) (1918)**
- No. 4 Allvarsdagen (‘On the Last Day’) (1914)
- Skåda, skåda hur det våras (‘See, see how the spring appears’), Op. 117, No. 2 (Löwenhjelm; 1921)*
- I skäraste morgongryning (‘As aurora broke’), Op. 21, No. 2 (Tavaststjerna; 1896)
- Marias vaggsång (‘Mary’s Lullaby’), Op. 3, No. 1 (Levertin; 1897)***
- Maria, Guds moder (‘Mary, Mother of God’), Op. 151, No. 2 (R. Ekelund; 1928)
- Stjärnor (‘Stars’), Op. 151, No. 3 (Almqvist; 1928)
- Mot alla stjärnor (‘All the stars this night’), Op. 73, No. 3 (V. Ekelund; 1912)
- Det är juni (’It is June’), Op. 77, No. 2 (V. Ekelund; 1913)
- Vallarelåt (‘Distant Song’), Op. 42, No. 1 (Fröding; 1906)
- Från lägerbålet i öknen (‘From a camp re in the desert’), Op. 78, No. 1
Five Hemmer Settings
Tagoresånger (‘Tagore Songs’), Op. 105
Other Swedish Settings
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
** FIRST DIGITAL RECORDING
***FIRST RECORDING OF ORIGINAL VERSION
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