The collection of the main solo songs (published in 1995) by Armas Järnefelt (1869-1958) was accelerated by a donation made by his son, Arvi, in Stockholm to the University of Helsinki: dozens of previously unpublished manuscripts thus found their way home to Finland. Sweden was father Järnefelt's second home, since he spent a couple of decades as conductor of the Royal Opera in Stockholm. He concentrated almost exclusively on solo songs, the reason no doubt being that his father-in-law was Jean Sibelius, a master of large-scale form. Järnefelt's vocal lyrics spring from the National-Romantic ethos nurtured on the archaic rune-singing of the national epic, the Kalevala, and the distant lands of Karelia.

The folk-like elements of his youthful songs were in time joined by Impressionistic and in places even Expressionistic timbres. This collection is edited by Matti Tuloisela.

Contents:
Aallon kehtolaulu / Vågens vaggsång / Der Welle Wiegenlied
Am stillen Dorfe erhebt sich
Berceuse / Kehtolaulu
En spel- och dansvisa
Hämärä / Skymning / Dämmerung
I solnedgången / Im Sonnenuntergang
Isänmaan kasvot
Kanteleelle
Kehtolaulu / Vaggsång (Liekku liiku)
Kehtolaulu / Vaggsång (Hiljaa, hiljaa)
Laula, laula!
Leivo / Lärkan
Liina / Lina / Line
Milloin muistelet minua? / Säg, när minnes du mig? / Sag', gedenkst Du meiner?
När alla klockor klämtat tolf / Wenn alle Uhren zwölf geschlagen
Sinä / Du
Solsken / Sonnenschein
Sunnuntaina / Söndag
Suvirannalla / Sommarnatt på stranden
Titania
Toivoni / Önskan
Uneksijan laulu elämälle / En drömmarens sång till livet / Eines Träumers Sang an das Leben
Unelma / Dröm
Viel' ois virttä tieossani / Än en visa vill jag sjunga