Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal
SKU: FG.55011-699-3
The visionary poems by L. Onerva (1882-1972) have made her the poet of composers. Kuusisto follows the ecstasy and despair, prayer and profanity with a clear vision in Seven songs to poems by L. Onerva (2001/2007).
SKU: AP.36-M328691
UPC: 660355086960. English.
Songs: 1. For Me the Jasmine Buds (text by Florence Earle Coates), 2. Ecstasy (text by the composer), 3. Golden Gates (text author unknown, though it was published in a journal called Our Dumb Animals, which was published by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
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SKU: FG.042-08322-2
ISBN 979-0-042-08322-2.
Written for the Tapiola Children's Choir, Tapiolassa (In Tapiola) takes its text from the Finnish folk-epic Kalevala, in particular a section telling of the haunts of the mysterious forest spirit Tapio. The piece unites the ancient songs of the bards with Bergman's own conception of the myth. We are brought into contact with a rough and archaic world, where monody and two-part writing breaks out into free tonality and polyphonic texture. Lyricism is combined with dramatic power and childish playfulness with shamanistic ecstasy.
