Finlandia

I can't listen now, but I hope this is 'bumped' so that I can listen another day.
I love Finlandia, have a very old LP!

I will do my best to keep this thread in the Active list roseq

Stunning! Thank you.

Bumping for rosequartz

Thank you AshTree

It is now playing and bringing back happy memories of when we went to see the Sibelius monument in Helsinki.
www.eilahiltunen.net/monument.html

Such a lovely film too!

Are they eider ducks I wonder?

Thank you AshTree
(just playing it again)

Wow! Amazing! Thank you

Oh I'm so pleased you enjoyed it roseq. The video is so lovely isn't it? I wondered about the ducks too - not sure which species they are, but looked at images of eider ducks and I don't think that's what they are. This is going to bug me now

It is going through my head now!

Makes a change from 'Let it Go' after DGD has been (although some of the landscape is similar!).

I am so over Let it Go! (But actually, I would love to have had a little girl to take to the cinema so I could see the film )

But not the singalong version AshTree

That was stunning Ash Tree - I love the hymn too. I think the ducks are probably Goldeneyes - they nest in trees in Scandanavia.

Thank you for this Ash! So beautiful. It was my beloved father's favourite piece of music and we had the hymn at his funeral. Still makes me weepy even 20 years after his death.

Gagagran I'm pleased you said that because after some time spent googling duck identification I too thought they could be Goldeneyes, but wasn't sure. I didn't know about the tree nesting, so that bit of info more or less clinches it I reckon!

No roseq, definitely not the singalong one!!!

Glad you enjoyed it mcem, Alygran and Judthepud2

When I was a child my mother used to sing the words of a different hymn to this piece. I can't find a recording of it, but these are the words