Armas Launis – Häiden vietto Karjalan runomailla (1921)

Incidental music to "Wedding in the Karelian Songlands"
composed by Armas Launis (1884 - 1959)

[00:00] Sinipiiat (Kullervo)
[02:42] Nyyrikin laulu (Kullervo)
[04:11] Loitsu (Kullervo)
[07:36] Karjahuhuilu (Kullervo)
[09:51] Itkuvirsi (Kullervo)
[14:27] Venla (Seitsemän veljestä)
[16:39] Kehtolaulu (Kullervo)
[19:35] Karjalainen tanssi
[21:23] Viinalaulu (Kullervo)
[24:31] Impivaara-välisoitot (Seitsemän veljestä)
[29:05] Alkusoitto II. näytökseen (Kullervo)
[33:08] Veljesten kotiinpaluu (Seitsemän veljestä)

performed by Avanti!
conducted by Yrjö Hjelt

Incidental music to the ethnographic film "Häiden vietto Karjalan runomailla". The score mainly consists of arrangements from his operas 'Kullervo' and 'Seitsemän veljestä'. Launis composed one original piece for this film – Karjalainen tanssi (Karelian dance), which he also later used as a theme in his 1937 opera 'Karjalainen taikahuivi'.

For technical reasons to match the lower frame rate of the restored film, Avanti! recorded an extended version of Launis' score. The music in this video has been cut and edited to represent the score as Launis had initially conceived it. The performance order of the pieces has been changed slightly to account for omitting a few of the pieces being played twice in the film.

instrumentation: 1 flute, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 contrabass, piano.