Cover: On the River of Life (1896) by Hugo Simberg (1873-1917)
Hyperion CDA68266 · October 2020
Mäntyjärvi: Choral Music
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton (conductor)
Reviews
- Organists' Quarterly2020Overwhelmingly and profoundly moving.” Jaakko Mäntyjärvi was born in Turku, Finland in 1963 and has sung in and conducted various choral ensembles there. His compositional output, sacred and secular in equal measure, has been…Read the review
- Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)2020Jaakko Mäntyjärvi deserves his sumptuous showcase album The classical music scene in Finland seems to regard Jaakko Mäntyjärvi as an excellent translator who also happens to have a sideline in writing choral music, but abroad he…Read the review
- Gramophone2020Jaakko Mäntyjärvi is a polymath: he is a singer, conductor and translator, but it is for his work as a composer that he is best known outside his native Finland. Indeed, some of his music has come to be much favoured by choirs…Read the review
- Helsingin Sanomat2020Even heathens surely cannot help but enjoy to the bottom of their soul the a cappella choral music of Jaakko Mäntyjärvi on sacred texts. The carefully customised tonal colours are delicious, so much so as to be sinfully…Read the review
- Music Web International2020It is a triumph in every respect.” I could have made it very easy for myself by simply referring to my colleague Marc Rochester’s review – a Recording of the Month – and say that I endorse his enthusiasm in every respect, both…Read the review
- Music Web International2020The temptation is merely to write that Stephen Layton and his Trinity College choir have done it again. So accustomed are those of us who review choral music to enjoying flawless excellence from them (as well as the magnificent…Read the review
- Rondo Classic2020Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b. 1963) is probably currently Finland’s internationally most successful composer of choral music, and his Trinity Service, commissioned by the distinguished Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, forms the core…Read the review
Recorded: Various dates
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: October 2020
Total duration: 70 minutes 45 seconds
Track list
- Ave Maria d'AostaJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)2'44
- Stuttgarter Psalmen: Warum toben die Heiden?Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)7'31
- Stuttgarter Psalmen: Mein Gott, mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)13'31
- Stuttgarter Psalmen: Richte mich, GottJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)7'03
- Benedic anima mea DominoJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)4'04
- Pulchra esJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)2'58
- Trinity Service: Ave MariaJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)1'34
- Trinity Service: Preces O Lord, open thou our lipsJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)1'33
- Trinity Service: Psalm 128 Blessed are all they that fear the LordJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)2'41
- Trinity Service: Magnificat My soul doth magnify the LordJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)4'23
- Trinity Service: Nunc dimittis Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peaceJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)5'16
- Trinity Service: Responses The Lord be with you … Let us prayJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)0'54
- Trinity Service: The Lord's Prayer Our Father, which art in heavenJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)2'12
- Trinity Service: Responses & Collects O Lord, show thy mercy upon usJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)4'27
- Trinity Service: O lux beata TrinitasJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)4'25
- Trinity Service: Final Responses The Lord be with you … Let us bless the LordJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)0'39
- O magnum mysteriumJaakko Mäntyjärvi (b1963)4'50
Recording details from Hyperion Records.