Rautavaara: True & False Unicorn

Rautavaara: True & False Unicorn

Rautavaara: True & False Unicorn

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Orchestra: Einojuhani Rautavaara
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Music Label: Ondine
Soundtracks:

True & False Unicorn: I Before the Arras: The Unicorn questions the nature of the chase
The Lion, reading
Sigmund of Vienna
The Unicorn
II Horn and Hounds: 5 Entering the wilderness the Unicorn is beset by voices
Young Sagittarius
A Virgin, waiting
The Empress of Byzantium
Queen Victoria
His Honor the Mayor
Big Black Sambo
III Snare and Delusion: 12 In the heart of the desert the silence is pearcing
The Unicorn, wounded
The Unicorn reaches a temple in a clearing
Sigmund of Vienna
The Lion
The Unicorn
Tom Fool (
The Virgin's Lullaby
The Unicorn
Cancion de nuestro tiempo (Song of Our Time): Fragmentos de agonia (Fragments of Agony)
Meditacion primera y Altima (First and Last Meditation)
Ciudad sin sueno (Nocturno del Sarajevo) (Sleepless City--Nocturno of Sarajevo)
Halavan himmeon alla - In the Shade of the Willow: Ikovyys (Melancholy)
Laulu oravasta - The Squirrel
Sydomeni laulu - Song of My Heart

Music reviews of Rautavaara: True & False Unicorn

Music Review: Great music, lackluster English
Rating: 4 Stars

"True and False Unicorn" is an entertainingly whimsical set of poems commenting on the nature of the imaginary beast, set to music by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. His text-setting of the English is quite good for a non-native speaker, but unfortunetely the choir's diction is not. There's all manner of strangeness here in the vowels they make, sometimes to the point of distraction. Still, they sing with admirable tone (their recordings of Rautavaara's sacred music, in Finnish, are amazing) and have the support of great orchestral playing underneath them. Also on the disc is the "Cancion de nuestro tiempo", after postmodern poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The choir seems more at home here with the Spanish sounds, and for my money the work is just as captivating. If you can get past the spotty diction on the English, there's a lot to love here.

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