Gerald Gardner

The exceptional collaboration and friendship between the late Einojuhani Rautavaara and the internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Gerland Finley culminates in this unique album of orchestral songs by Sibelius, on which the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Edward Gardner. The album offers orchestrations, by Sibelius and others, of songs which Sibelius originally wrote for voice and piano, and includes the premiere recording of ‘In the Stream of Life,’ seven songs orchestrated by Rautavaara for his friend. Throughout, the poetry perfectly reflects the instinctively felt relation between Finnish nature and Sibelius’s music.

En 1949, Gerald Brousseau Gardner, fondateur de la Wicca (mouvement religieux), en rassemblait les principaux préceptes et rituels dans ce livre, synthétisant ainsi la mystique de ce qu'il voyait comme un "art des sages". Après un itinéraire initiatique qui démarra avec le spiritualisme anglo-saxon et la théosophie, il étudia les croyances de plusieurs peuples orientaux.