Founded in 1975, Dominante is the chamber choir of Aalto University and its director since 1981 has been Seppo Murto. It performs both unaccompanied works and large-scale productions for choir and orchestra, both in Finland and on its tours abroad, and engages in partnership with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and, especially, the Lahti Symphony and Lohja City Orchestra.
Its repertoire has included major works by Bach, Handel and Mozart, Finnish classics and contemporary music, and it has premiered dozens of Finnish works. Dominante has so far released 22 albums, two of which (Raudan kirous, 1996 and Lempeä, 2008) have been voted in Finland as Choral Record of the Year.
www.dominante.fi
Edward Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius
Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano
John Findon, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Helsinki Music Centre Choir
Cambridge University Symphony Chorus
Dominante
Helsinki Chamber Choir
Alumni of the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon
ODE 1451-2D
Released 02/2025