
The early music vocal ensemble Lumen Valo from Helsinki, Finland is one of the leading nordic ensembles, especially acclaimed for its tonal clarity and subtle readings of early and contemporary music. The ensemble made its debut in February 1993. It has concentrated on the polyphonic vocal music of the Renaissance but makes frequent detours into both medieval and contemporary music. Lumen Valo has been regarded as largely responsible for the wide-spread enhusiasm in early music vocal polyphony in Finland.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Rest
Johann von Gardner, arr: Joulun valovirrelmä (Exapostilarion)
Pjotr Tsaikovski: Legend (op. 54/5)
Francis Poulenc: Quem vidistis pastores
Maa on niin kaunis
Francis Poulenc: O magnum mysterium
Michael Praetorius: In dulci jubilo
Piae Cantiones: Gaudete
Giovanni Gabrieli: O magnum mysterium
Charles Villiers Stanford: The blue bird
Michael Pretorias, arr.: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium
Mikko Sidoroff: Pyhä yö
Toivo Kuula: Rukous
Piae Cantiones: Jucundare jugiter
Lullay: I saw
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium
Edward Elgar: My love dwelt in a northern land
Sergei Rahmaninov : Bogoroditse Djevo (All Night Vigil)
Benjamin Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
Heinrich Isaac: Ecce, virgo concipies
Piae Cantiones: Paranymphus adiens
Perotinus: Beata Viscera
Ahti Sonninen: Jouluhymni
Piae Cantiones: Personent hodie
O magnum mysterium
Trond Kverno: Corpus Christi Carol
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Kyrie (Cantus Missae, op. 109)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Summer is gone
David Willcocks, arr.: Blessed be that maid Mary
Juhani Komulainen: Herra kanssas olkohon
Robert Pearsall, arr.: In dulci jubilo
Piae Cantiones: Congaudeat turba fidelium
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In dulci Jubilo
Blessed be that maid Mary
Eric Whitacre: Lux aurumque
Piae Cantiones: Salve, flos et décor Ecclesiae
Gottfried Wollte's, arr.: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
Gaudete
A Hymn to the Virgin
Beata Viscera
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Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!
Congaudeat turba fidelium
Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: O magnum mysterium
Paranymphus adiens
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