Finlandia (This Is My Song) Sibelius
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2024
- The St. Paul's Concert Chorale, conducted by John Smedstad, performs This Is My Song (Finlandia), Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). St. Paul's School for Boys is a private day school located in Brooklandville, MD. Approximately 1/3 of all upper school boys sing in a choral ensemble. The premiere ensemble tours extensively; their most recent tour was to Iceland where the boys shared performances with an Icelandic choir.
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The lyrics were written in the 1930s by the American poet Lloyd Stone. They read now like a lament for an America that might have been but never was, and set to the music of Sibelius they could serve as an anthem for every country in a world that we will never see. I find the song, and this performance in particular, deeply moving.
Jago, I believe that eventually, we will see a just world; a world at peace with one another and living within the environmental limits of our Earth. I think it is up to each of us to find that place of peace within us and to express that peace with our lives, just as great souls like the Buddha and Jesus did far ahead of the rest of us. I think their lives reveal the potential of our species, no matter how remote that often seems. I think that is also the meaning of Jesus saying, "Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven" [which is within each and all of us, waiting to be discovered and expressed in this world]. I think Jean Sebelius had a vision of this in his mind which led him to compose Finlandia. I could be mistaken, of course.
@@bbriley42 Yes, exactly. The place of peace is within us, both as a present reality and as a seed or embryo awaiting development. (signed) Toomas Karmo (Catholic in Nõo Rural Municipality, Estonia)
My brother, have faith. If the human race survives, we will see that world.
@@bbriley42 well said!
This is the most amazing example of a high school boys' choir!!! High school, guys!! From the choir director to the amazing acoustic/audio technician it remains to be the best of the best. I remember the day it was recorded. As a parent of one of these young men, I waited the best part of that day as they rehearsed and got the best from these guys. My heart is broken as I hear it back today; my dearest child Jonathan is no longer living. I am so gutted every day. But at least his golden voice lives on whenever I want to hear him with my heart....❤
We sang this song in the 70's and 80's at the Community of St. Malachi the church I attended all those years. We typically sang the song around the 4th of July.
I still get chills when I think of those precious days in that church, the involved, loving and caring community of people who did more than give voice to their beliefs; they lived them by working with the indigent poor, the alcoholics and the downtrodden of the neighborhood that surrounded the church. When that community sang, they had the rafters ringing with passion and belief of how things could change...of how we could be change in the world and bring peace. I could literally feel the spirit move through that church not in some mystical or superstitious way but in a way that truly made the Community of St. Malachi's one bread - one body and deeply committed to doing everything we could to bring peace to our neighborhood, our city and our world.
Thank you for this beautiful performance of an amazing piece of music. We should all remember the words especially "but other hearts in other lands beating with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine." "Oh hear my song, thou God of all the nations, a song of peace for their land and for mine."
I'm an Anglo-Saxon from New England, U.S.A., and when I hear Finlandia, it makes me think of the Tsars oppressing the Duchy of Finland for centuries, and the Winter War launched by Stalin. I can only guess at what the words to Finlandia actually mean, but by God, it conveys to me years of suffering and loss as the Finns struggled to become a free people. The piece is deeply moving.
When Russia was on the verge of invading Finland, this song was played all throughout Finland!
You got the meaning of the original lyrics pretty much spot on.
Translated lyrics of the original:
Finland, behold, thy daylight now is dawning,
the threat of night has now been driven away.
The skylark calls across the light of morning,
the blue of heaven lets it have its sound,
and now the day the powers of night is scorning:
thy daylight dawns, O Finland of ours!
Finland, arise, and raise towards the highest
thy head now crowned with mighty memory.
Finland, arise, for to the world thou criest
that thou hast thrown off thy slavery,
beneath oppression's yoke thou never liest.
Thy morning's come, O Finland of ours!
@@Caldera01 Those lyrics are the Finnish lyrics, but they are not the "original lyrics" in the sense of being the >>first
@@richardthomas2334 1. That's easily one of the most condescending replies I've ever gotten. Finland was under Tsarist Russia?? Oh wowww, I had no idea AS A FINNISH CITIZEN!
2. Insane American Chauvinism. Taking the most important national hymn of a nation, converting it to be a religious one and getting lyrics for it in the process and then pretending "Ohno, this was in fact the original lyrics for this hymn that totally aligns with the original intent!"
3. Sibelius: "I made this."
American Fundamentalist Christians: "We made this!"
Really emotional presentation, many thanks and greetings from Finland.
Reading your comment and listening this masterpiece in the backgroung brings tears to my eyes.
To dispell differences: All trafitional folk songs are rewritten from time to time by various artists; to accomodate current artistic needs. This does not dilute or compromise the song: but rather, it expands the meaning and depth of the song; adding to it and making it more meaningful and more universal.
Gorgeous choral singing, which makes the arm hairs stand up
This is my school. I'm going to be singing in this choir next year.
These guys are even better in person though. The youtube video can't do them justice.
This is a fine and moving performance. We played the hymn as an organ solo at my father's memorial service in the Sydney University Great Hall some 3 years ago - it was no less apt for his being originally from the Czech Republic not Finnland
By the way, the original Finnish lyrics by Koskenniemi go like this:
O Finland look
your day is dawning,
the threat of night’s already deported
and the lark of morning sings in brightness
as if the canopy of sky would ring.
The powers of night are conquered
by the brightness of morning;
your day will come o fatherland.
O Finland rise and lift up high
your head wreathed by great memories.
O rise Finland, you showed the world
that you deported slavery
and didn’t bow under oppression.
Your morning’s come, o fatherland.
(Rough translation by Ray Bird 2013)
Those lyrics were written at the time when Finland was about to be invaded and annexed by the Russians!
Those basses are incredible
I like that it's sung closer to the way Finlandia is sung rather than the lighter minded 'this is my song'
As a Finn I am content that it is sung so beautifully and it is ok to me if the words have no original meassage if they are at least like these. But to me the performance is perfect when it is sung in Finnish with poet Koskenniemi's lyrics. Because my father and mother experienced the war. It is part of our history.
i will sing this song until my end
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine;
this is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine:
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine:
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.
Sibelius is one of my favorite composers, and this hymn (and the larger composition in which it features) is one of Sibelius' best works in my opinion. If I were to hear this being sung in public, I would give it the same respect that I would to a national anthem.
Carm and warm hearts of peaceful world make by this chore, comfortable good ansanble VTR!
So clear, restrained, and yet strong. So many others turn this to strident anthemic.
Thanks, for taking a subtler approach.
Beautiful!
Superb, congratulations. Finandia is one of my favourite pieces of music in whatever guise it is performed.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.
Que preciosa versión, admirable!!!!
Such a beautiful song, and deeply meaningful lyrics. We sang this in our church when I was a child but I didn't really undertand the lyrics till I got older. Lovely sung by this choir, too.
@kpasi70 Lloyd Stone, 1934. From the beginning many different lyrics had been written for the stand-alone piece that Sibelius later re-worked from the original symphonic poem (that of course was a patriotic piece, albeit had no lyrics). He never had any problems with this - Sibelius himself propably sang it in free masons' meetings with Wäinö Sola's lyrics, that have somewhat esoteric twist in meaning.
thank you for this info.
Kapelimestari 100 %...eli, kuoro on hyvä. Kiitos ...kiitos
I wish that this beautiful song could be "performed" with the true words! The words that have a meaning in Finnish history! Anyway this performance was excellent!
It all depends on what you mean by "true words." The English words being sung were set to the music of Finlandia years before what you call the "true words" in Finnish were written.
I do not know why there were not Finnish words authored earlier for use with the music. Perhaps it was because Sibelius seemed not to have embraced the idea of putting words to his music originally (though he did later change his mind). But his initial response to the idea of putting words to Finlandia was: "It was written for orchestra."
The words being sung, authored by the poet Llloyd Stone, date from 1934 or slightly earlier, while the "true words" of the Finnish poet V. A. Koskenniemi were not written until sometime after 1939 and published in 1941.
Even earlier, the English words of "Be Still, My Soul" were sung to the music when the 1855 English translation of the German hymn were set to Finlandia and published in the 1927 hymnal of the Church of Scotland. (Before that, "Be Still, My Soul" had usually been sung to a tune called St. Helen composed in 1872 by Walter Hately.)
But I agree that when Lloyd Stone's words are sung, the piece should be called either "A Song of Peace" or "This Is My Song" rather than the "Finlandia hymn." While it does use the music of the hymn-like portion of Finlandia, the words are not specific to Finland.
The first words were written by Yrjö Sjöblom from Teuva in New York 1919.
Glorious. Wish I could find this for purchase.
Wow! So well done. The SP community is proud of all of you. PLO class of '83
At Christ UMC, Laurel, DE, we are going to use this as the hymn of preparation for the gospel reading on Pentecost Sunday, Mary 26, 2013. And I look forward also to playing the last 2 pages of the H. A. Fricker organ transcription of "Finlandia" for the postlude!
Beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing it!!!
Absolutely superb!
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing Paul!
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. This is to all denominations: If Numbers 25:10-13 and/or 1 Samuel 2:30-36 is your Scripture(s) of the Day, this is a good hymn to compliment it.
mkl62 used in the sense of a good pairing, the word is complement, not compliment. FYI and good day.
That was really beautiful!
Just beautiful.
The largo movement of Sibelius' "Finlandia" has been adapted into dozens of hymns--four different hymns in my church's hymnal alone. Probably the most popular of the "Finlandia"-based hymns is titled "Be Still My Soul."
We sing this Hymn in Our church. One of my Favorites.
We sang this hymn in my church after 9/11 2001. It spoke to the shock and horror of that time.
Nice bass section. Sometimes younger choral groups do not have enough fully developed bass singers but that is not the case with this ensemble.
I don't know about sheet music, except that it is in some hymnals. it's in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal with the words in this video. I would love to have a more interesting accompaniment for the piano to play than just the 4-part harmony.
Superbly done, control, quality all the way, quite an accomplishment. I am more used to the Welsh Choirs singing it with more gusto, particularly in the higher ranges, but musically this is a wonderful performance, a thoughtful close to the day, thank you so much
I do not like the english version because this song isn't about world peace its about how finland got through their hqrd times and how they got their independense
And this is why I love the internet.
What arrangement is this, and where can I purchase it? Thank you!
louder like the 33 record from the 60's the beloved choruses
how beatiful this is sung
does anyone know the words of the second verse ?
Hoi Hans,. Dank je wel..
I'm a Finn and I can only say I'm proud and moved to hear this performance of the Sibelius masterpiece.
The lyrics by Lloyd Stone are very universal and surprisingly written before the established finnish lyrics by V.A. Koskenniemi (written during the Second World War). Finlandia-hymni with the finnish lyrics naturally have a special place in our heart and soul.
Here is one recent and beautiful rendition ruclips.net/video/X4i6Stj8h0s/видео.html
Miksi en löydä laulua suomeksi. (why cannot i find this song at finnish language)
@sgibbonsmock Our high school choir sang those lyrics exactly, too. Yet, I cannot find any choir that sings these words on youtube, can you?
These really are not the original Finlandia lyrics. These least popular lyrics are written by Lloyd Stone for this finnish composition. Original lyrics are in fact written by Koskenniemi, but they are completely different. Original lyrics begin like: "O, Finland, behold, your day is dawning,
The threat of night has been banished away..." And this version what they are singing has nothing to do with the original lyrics. Its just a somekind of a rip off.
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Fantastic version! I'm looking for years for the sheet music. Can someone inform me where to buy it?
Roel Malewicz perhaps a Catholic book store
Finland certainly had its struggle to be free from Russia. Note the third verse is missing. BTW you can hear this theme used in Finlandia Op 26
Sisu,
Sauna.
Sibelius.
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Suomi ?
To all my Americans, Happy Fourth of July!❤️🙏🇺🇸
At first I felt this was too slow, it is not a lullaby, I wonder why it seemed a bit quicker in the end. Anyway, it is sung beautifully. Of course it is a hymn without words in the middle of Finlandia , but it has later been set with words and many choirs like to sing it.
There are many melodies that have been given words suitable to a hymn, especially many British folk songs.
sgibbonsmock, "Oh, mighty land etc" I do not know whose words these are but I think they are the same sung by an American women's group that visited a Finnish congregation in Canberra, Australia, many years ago. They do not suit Finland, we do not have mountains and prairies.
It is probably because I am a Finn, that I do not feel quite happy either to sing this hymn at a service, with Stone's words, but I understand that people love the melody and no one is able to translate the Finnish words into an English poem.
Finlandia is the unofficial National Anthem of Finland.
These are true Words: You did rise from the night of tyranny
Koetappa ettiä hakusanalla: Finlandia hymni
Beautiful performance, but who on earth invented this "this is my song" thing??? It is so far from the meaning of the song! br A True Finn
Not flat, keep in every cresiend on each prase as basic acapera on the my song by men's chore,I ordered.
FINNISH HYMN!
Original lyrics are better...
It seems that these lyrics (not the original Finnish ones) go out of their way to avoid patriotism.
Dros gymrun gwlad
Sibelius claimed that this tune was of his making and not a Finnish folk tune.
This is the ONLY good national anthem!!
mediocre at best :)