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Music by teacher and pupil, complementary but distinctive, sits side by side in this focus on the two major Finnish composers鈥� choral music.

Einojuhani Rautavaara, who died in 2016, was one of Esa-Pekka Salonen鈥檚 teachers in Helsinki and this late-afternoon concert juxtaposes choral works by the two men. The conductor Nicholas Chalmers joins the 麻豆社 Singers for a programme of music set to texts that range from the Mass to Dante (2014鈥檚 Iri da iri). Rautavaara鈥檚 Our Joyful鈥檚t Feast sets English words with glorious results while his Missa a Capella (2011) builds on an earlier setting of the Credo from 1972. The concert opens with two songs setting the poetry of Ann J盲derlund, music of great sensuality that hearkens back to the counterpoint of Palestrina.