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• Choir: Cape Town Youth Choir
• Piece: Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
• Composer:  Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
• Conductor:  Leon Starker
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Folk/Ethnic
• "Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae" - Song of Maritime Calamity
  Composed by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
  Inspired by the MS Estionia disaster of 1994
  Performed by the Cape Town Youth Choir
  Conducted by Leon Starker
  
  Canticum Ca...  more"Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae" - Song of Maritime Calamity
  Composed by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
  Inspired by the MS Estionia disaster of 1994
  Performed by the Cape Town Youth Choir
  Conducted by Leon Starker
  
  Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae is an eight-part, a cappella classical choral composition by the Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. Completed in 1997, the piece was inspired by the MS Estonia disaster of 1994. It won third prize in the European composition competition for cathedral choirs in 1997.
  
  The text of the piece is taken from three sources: the Catholic Requiem Mass, Psalm 107: "They that go down to the sea in ships...", and the report of the disaster from the weekly Latin-language Finnish news service, Nuntii Latini.
  
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