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Release Date: Sunday 4 March 2007
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The best of the songs are essentially nature pieces, dark-hued, vividly characterized, intensely melancholic and vocally demanding. Sibelius considered them to represent his "innermost self".
6 Songs, Op. 88
Demanten pa marssnon (The Diamond on the March Snow), Op. 36, No. 6
Den forsta kyssen (The First Kiss), JS 57
Den forsta kyssen (The First Kiss), Op. 37, No. 1
Die stille Nacht (The Silent City), Op. 50, No. 5
En visa (A Song), JS 71
Flickan kom ifran sin alsklings mote (The girl returned from meeting her lover), Op. 37, No. 5
Hymn to Thais, the Unforgettable, JS 97
Illalle (To Evening), Op. 17, No. 6
Im Feld ein Madchen singt (In the Field a Maid Sings), Op. 50, No. 3
Kaiutar (The Echo Nymph), Op. 72, No. 4
Lastu lainehilla (Driftwood), Op. 17, No. 7
Narsissi (Narciss, Narcissus), JS 140
Orgier (Orgies), JS 143
Sav, sav, susa (Reed, reed, rustle), JS 42
Sav, sav, susa (Reed, reed, rustle), Op. 36, No. 4
Segelfahrt (Sailing), JS 166
Sehnsucht (Longing), Op. 50, No. 2
Serenad (Serenade), JS 167
Soluppgang (Sunrise), JS 87
Souda, souda, sinisorsa (Row, row, duck), JS 180
Svarta rosor (Black Roses), Op. 36, No. 1
Vanskapens blomma (The Flower of Friendship), JS 215
Var det en drom? (Was it a Dream?), Op. 37, No. 4
Varen flyktar hastigt (Spring is Flying), Op. 13, No. 4