Juha: Opera in Three Acts
Album by Aarre Merikanto & Jorma Hynninen & Eeva‐Liisa Saarinen & Raimo Sirkiä & Radion sinfoniaorkesteri & Jukka‐Pekka Saraste
Juha is an opera in three acts by Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto, first performed in 1963. The score blends late-Romantic orchestration with early-modernist harmony and vivid orchestral colour, marking a departure from Finnish national-romantic idioms and illustrating Merikanto's modernist tendencies within early 20th-century Finnish opera.
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Disc 1
- 1.Juha: Act I, Scene 1: Prologue and Juha's Monologue3:54
- 2.Juha: Act I, Scene 1: Entry of Marja and Shemeikka1:33
- 3.Juha: Act I, Scene 1: The Tar Makers4:11
- 4.Juha: Act I, Scene 1: Duet: Shemeikka and Marja3:41
- 5.Juha: Act I, Scene 1: Shemeikka, Juha and Marja7:57
- 6.Juha: Act I, Scene 2: Shemeikka and Marja10:37
- 7.Juha: Act I, Scene 2: Finale to Act I: Mother-In-Law, Marja, Juha and Kaisa3:33
- 8.Juha: Act II, Scene 1: Prologue2:09
- 9.Juha: Act II, Scene 1: Marja's Monologue5:32
- 10.Juha: Act II, Scene 1: Marja and Kalamatti2:30
- 11.Juha: Act II, Scene 1: Summer Sweethearts4:17
- 12.Juha: Act II, Scene 1: Shemeikka and Marja6:43
Disc 2
- 2.Juha: Act II, Scene 2: At Shemeikka's: His Mother and Marja5:35
- 3.Juha: Act II, Scene 2: Anja and Marja4:41
- 4.Juha: Act II, Scene 2: Marja and the Housewife0:57
- 5.Juha: Act II, Scene 2: Shemeikka's Return: Anja, Marja and Shemeikka2:05
- 6.Juha: Act II, Scene 2: Dance Scene5:40
- 7.Juha: Act III, Scene 1: Juha's Cottage: Mother-In-Law, Juha and Kaisa3:52
- 8.Juha: Act III, Scene 1: Mother-In-Law, Juha, Marja and Kaisa8:16
- 9.Juha: Act III, Scene 1: (interlude)9:49
- 10.Juha: Act III, Scene 2: Anja and Marja3:56
- 11.Juha: Act III, Scene 2: Finale: Shemeikka, Marja, Juha and Anja6:09
