YL Male Voice Choir
Pasi Hyökki, choir director 

YL Male Voice Choir is a Finnish pioneer of male voice choral music, performing actively in Finland and around the world. YL is the Finland’s oldest Finnish language choir, now 140-year-old. The choir celebrates its anniversary with a tour around Finland in autumn. The jubilee programme will be heard in the Helsinki metropolitan area only at the Organ Night and Aria Festival.   

The diverse and colourful repertoire consists of songs by Robert Kajanus, Jean Sibelius, Juuso Vanonen, Selim Palmgren, Machael Ostrzyga, Eero Grundström, Toivo Kuula, Gösta Sundqvist and Leevi Madetoja, among others. The concert will be spiced up with video installations. 

Duration 1 h 50 min, incl. intermission
Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE will broadcast the concert

Espoo Cathedral
Kirkkopuisto 5, Espoo

Program

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Opus 18
Venematka (1893), lyr. Kalevala
Sortunut ääni  (1898), lyr. Kanteletar
Metsämiehen laulu (1899), lyr. Aleksis Kivi
Sydämeni laulu (1898), lyr. Aleksis Kivi        

Juuso Vanonen (1980- ):
Runo (2015), lyr. Kalevala
1. Vaka vanha Väinämöinen                                                                                              
2. Kosken tyttö, kuohuneiti                                                                                              
3. Kivet keskellä jokea  

Selim Palmgren (1878-1951):                        
Tuutulaulu  (1903), lyr. Kanteletar       
Muut kuuli kirkonkellon (1904), lyr. Kanteletar
Glömd (1933), lyr. Zachris Topelius
En vintervisa – Surren laulelen (1907), lyr. Gustaf Fröding, fin. trans. Heikki Klemetti

Michael Ostrzyga (1975- ):
Nine Echoes of Ancient Trees  (2014)
7. Seasons and Time, lyr. V. Garland
8. Last Autumn Storms, lyr. V. Garland, W. Whitman
9. The Eldest, lyr. C. E. Ives, W. Whitman, V. Garland, I. McLellan  

intermission (15min)

Yui Katada (1985- ): TeMankai (2021), lyr. Hachigatsu-odori of Amami

Toivo Kuula (1883-1918):
Kullervon laulu  op.4/7 (1909), lyr. Kanteletar    
Virta venhettä vie op.4/5 (1906), lyr. Eino Leino    
Iltapilviä  op.27a/5 (1914), lyr. V. A. Koskenniemi

Erik Lindström (1922–2015): Muistatko Monrepos’n, lyr. Aili Runne & Auvo Nuotio, arr. Tuomas Meurman

Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947):
Valkeat kaupungit  op.8/5 (1909), lyr. V. A. Koskenniemi
Suvi-illan vieno tuuli  op.23/3 (1913), lyr. Eino Leino
Iltatunnelma op.33/1 (1915), lyr. Eino Leino 

Gösta Sundqvist (1957-2003):
Pohjois-Karjala, lyr. Gösta Sundqvist, arr. Tuomas Meurman