SUOMEKSI
Lovessa
"The fact that the best-known names don't always write the best choral music was reminded to us with abundant clarity in the works Lovessa and Vedet, by Otto Nuoranne (b. 1991) and Tommi Paavilainen (b. 1997). [...]
The work by Nuoranne was in a way more conventional of the two - it occasionally evoked harmonic devices by Rautavaara - but the sense of the text was at a high level, and it seemed that Nuoranne had things to say and a meaningful way of expressing it."

-Mats Liljeroos, a review of EMO Ensemble's November 6th, 2025, concert on the website kuoromusiikinkausikonsertit.fi November 8th, 2025
Lovessa (’In the Hollow’) is a 7-minute work for SATB choir set to a text by Heta Kaisto and Krista Lehtonen. The work is inspired by the idea of villages drowned by artificial lakes created with dams. It follows a journey from among the suffocated trees in the sunken village up to a bird’s perspective and finally back to the ground, where the elements meet in the crossroads of human fates. The title of the work refers to the word lovi, an underwater underworld or afterlife in the Finnish mythology.
EMO Ensemble
Pasi Hyökki, conductor
Concert and Video production - 4K Multicamera Live Recording / Broadcast / Postproduction: University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy
Video: Keijo Lahtinen
Sound: Students of the Sibelius Academy Music Technology Department: Armi Lampela, Tyko Vaskivuori, Jimi Ahola, Elias Hildén
Instructor: Matti Heinonen
Audio: Mikko Ingman
Lights: Sirje Ruohtula
Graphics: Aino Laukka, Jan Rosström, Keijo Lahtinen
Producer: Anna Huuskonen-Kuhlefelt

The sheet music is available on Choralworks.fi.