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Length
  
55:14 / 58:13

Artist
  
Tarja Turunen

Producer
  
Esa Nieminen

Henkäys Ikuisuudesta (2006)
  
My Winter Storm (2007)

Release date
  
8 November 2006

Label
  
Passion

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Released
  
8 November 2006 6 December 2010

Genres
  
Classical music, Christmas music

Similar
  
Tarja Turunen albums, Other albums

Tarja turunen album 2006 henk ys ikuisuudesta


Henkäys Ikuisuudesta (officially translated as: Breath From Heaven) is the first solo album by Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, and focuses on the Christmas holiday season. On November 26, 2010, Nuclear Blast released a re-mastered version of the CD, bringing a new artwork and a semi-new track list, with "Heinillä Härkien" replacing "Happy New Year" and "Maa On Niin Kaunis" replacing "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)"; the new edition also contains the previously unpublished track "Arkihuolesi Kaikki Heitä", which replaced "The Eyes of a Child".

Contents

All of the tracks are covers, except for "Kuin Henkäys Ikuisuutta" which was written by Tarja and Esa Nieminen, and "En Etsi Valtaa, Loistoa" was released on Tarja's "Yhden Enkelin Unelma" single in 2004, but the vocals have been re-recorded for this album. The music is composed by Jean Sibelius and the lyrics by Zacharias Topelius; Tarja also released "Walking in the Air" when she was a member of Nightwish, on their 1998 album Oceanborn. "Marian Poika" is the Finnish version of "Mary's Boy Child" and "Jouluyö, Juhlayö" is "Silent Night". The ABBA cover "Happy New Year" consists of both English and Spanish lyrics.

The first single of the album, "You Would Have Loved This", was released in Finland on October 25. The album reached Gold and Platinum status in Finland with more than 50,000 sold copies, and charted as N° 2 on the official Finnish Albums Chart.

Tarja henk ys ikuisuudesta full album w lyrics


Breath from Eternity Tour

To promote the album, Turunen a released a special tour playing in Finland and also in Russia; on December 6, 2006, Turunen performed a big concert at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti, Finland and the full show was live broadcast by the Finnish channel YLE TV2 for 450,000 viewers.

Personnel

Credits for Henkäys Ikuisuudesta adapted from liner notes.

Musicians

  • Tarja Turunen - Lead vocals
  • Maria Ilmoniemi & Esa Nieminen - Keyboards and piano
  • Juha Lanu - Electric and acoustic guitar
  • Ako Kiiski - Bass guitar
  • Harri Ala-Kojola - Drums
  • Iiris Pyrhönen, Heikki Hämäläinen - Violin
  • Tiia Makkonen & Veli-Matti Iljin - Cello
  • Mauri Pietikäinen - Viola
  • Emilia Kauppinen - Flute
  • Heikki Pohto - Saxophone
  • Main crew

  • Esa Nieminen - Music arrangements
  • Mika Jussila - Mastering engineer
  • Travis Smith - Cover artwork
  • Toni Härkönen - Photography
  • Songs

    1Kuin henkäys ikuisuutta4:32
    2You Would Have Loved This4:00
    3Happy New Year4:11

    References

    Henkäys ikuisuudesta Wikipedia