Piae Cantiones (Spiritual Songs), the first Finnish music ever to be printed, was published in Greifswald in 1582. Although many of the texts are on religious themes, the Piae Cantiones songs are not hymns; they represent a varied repertoire sung as extra-curricular entertainment for students. Styles range from the lively dancerhythmsand catchy refrains of Gaudete, to the cool renaissance counterpoint of Jesu dulcis memoria to the austere restraint of chant-like melody in Angelus emittitur, the first song in the book.

Andrew Lawrence-King, who has been playing alongside Jordi Savall for decades, conducts this vivid tribute to the Finnish music.

• 1. Divinum Mysterium
• 2. Iucundare a 3
• 3. Iucundare a 4
• 4. Congaudeat Turba Fidelium
• 5. Angelus Emittitur
• 6. Paranymphus Adiens
• 7. Laus Virginis Nati Sonat
• 8. Personent Hodie
• 9. Zachfus Arboris Ascendit
• 10. Verbum Caro Factus Est
• 11. In Dulci Iubilo
• 12. Tempus Adest Floridum
• 13. Psallat Fidelis Concio
• 14. Psallat Scholarum Concio
• 15. O Quam Mundum
• 16. Ramus Virens Olivarum
• 17. Dies Est Laeticiae
• 18. Gaudete
• 19. Cedit Hiems Eminus
• 20. Omnis Mundus Iucundetur
• 21. Iesu Dulcis Memoria
• 22. Resonet In Laudibus
• 23. Puer Natus In Bethlehem