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Finlandia

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Finlandia by Roger Hutchings

The piece has been used many times when somebody has done movies about film in war and people have got the feeling that this is the gun fighting. And that culminates in strong accentuations which go over into an Allegro Moderata where the brassis get quite percussive rolled in the whole thing with this strong beatings. In Finland the words that Cibélius endorsed to fit to this hymn were very nationalistic. The hymn Finlandia comes well into the orchestral piece. There is this glorious tune which suddenly emerges out of the quietness. My name is Roger Hutchings, I'm a Methodist minister. Not any more struggle it's more a kind

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