Jean Sibelius - Metsämiehen laulu

[STJ2000esmi]

Ja pojat ei muuta kuin lisää harjoitusta..... Ja kaikki muutkin kuorot.

[Olysseus]

@STJ2000esmi Eiköhän tässä kuitenkin ole yksi parhaista levytyksistä kyseisestä kappaleesta, eli en tiedä paljonko tätä mainitsemaasi harjoitusta tarvitaan.

[wkhes]

Thanks,great job! Here's my own translation of the second part of the poem, which you seem to have forgotten: On the green ground where's no dimming walls under the high sky of stars I wonder about singing and the echo goes around Who's voice is heard there? The gentle maiden of forest flirtatious on a man's path hopping in a fancy dress and golden curlies are waving

[edgluhrs]

Oh wow! Once again, thank you, Jean Sibelius!

[menschimausi]

I saw and heared it once more - it's so great!

Men choir voices, basses, bears, nature - I'm happy!

[menschimausi]

Oh, I love it so! Thx a lot!

[schlesmail]

I've been searching the 'Net for an English translation of Metsämiehen laulu, without much success. There's a translation of the Finnish into Italian, but when I try to pass it through an online translation application, the results are laughable. I finally found the following translation of stanzas 1, 2, 5, & 6 only--it was by someone identified only by his YouTube user's name: kimmotapio83.

[schlesmail]

Hail the forest and the mountain!

Hail the prince of the woods!

Here's thy young and brave son;

Forth he goes filled with strength

Like a fiery wind on a field.

I want to be a woodsman,

Champion of the mighty forest.

On the meadows of Tapiola

I wrestle with bears

And the world be left in oblivion!

[loiioddoiiol]

good translation

[schlesmail]

Delightful here is peace,

Valiant is the battle:

Storm rages and forest rumbles,

Strikes the lightning

And a spruce falls tumbling down.

I want to be a woodsman,

Champion of the mighty forest.

On the meadows of Tapiola

I wrestle with bears

And the world be left in oblivion!

[schlesmail]

Excellent addition--thanx for posting! Will you be posting any of the other Op. 18 part-songs? If nothing else, Sydämeni laulu deserves to be on YouTube.

Incidentally, who are the performers?

[Trottellumme123]

Gorgeous music and beautiful pictures of the great Finnish woods, and of the king of forest! -1:33 :)

[finnfellow]

loistava lataus, kiitos!