Lasten lied! 4 – Runometsässä
Vuonna 2024 järjestettyyn L.I.E.D. -sävellyskilpailuun osallistui 86 säveltäjää Suomesta ja ympäri maailmaa. Kilpailun myötä syntyi uutta lapsille ja nuorille tarkoitettua liedmusiikkia 105 teoksen ja 247 yksittäisen liedin…
Paavo Heininen: Jouluconcertino for voice & piano
Vocal music was perhaps the closest to Paavo Heininen’s (1938-2022) heart because of his passion for texts: the marriage of word and music was to him something…
New works for mixed choir
Kalevi Aho: Neljä joululaulua (Four Christmas Songs)The extremely hardworking composer Kalevi Aho has written almost nothing to choirs in recent years. The more interesting are these new…
Works for solo violoncello
Lauri Mäntysaari: KimaraKimara (cluster [of colors], 2025) is a collection of short, color-inspired pieces for cello. They can be performed in any order, individually or scattered throughout…
New works for solo trombone
Kai Nieminen: SigmaSigma for solo trombone was written in 1998. Composer Kai Nieminen tells that inspiration behind the name is from the way trombone’s slide moves during…
Einar Englund: Concerto for violin and orchestra
Downloadable and printable PDF product. Einar Englund wrote this violin concerto in 1981. The work is in three movements: Allegro moderato, Moderato and Finale: Allegro molto. The…
Einar Englund: Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra
Einar Englund won the first prize in the composition competition organized by the Helsinki Culture Foundation with his Concerto no. 1 for piano and orchestra (1955). This…
Kalevi Aho: String Quartet No. 5
Kalevi Aho composed his 5th string quartet in autumn 2021 as a commission from the Kamus Quartet. It is dedicated to the memory of the German-Austrian musicologist…
Lars Karlsson: String Quartet No. 1
Lars Karlsson’s String quartet No. 1 was composed in 1997 and revised in 2025. The first performance of the revised version was played by Tempera Quartet in…
Pehr Henrik Nordgren: String quintet
Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008) composed string quintet op. 110 in 2000. The work is scored for two violins, viola and two cellos. In his 4th and 5th…
Aulis Sallinen: String Quartet No. 4
Aulis Sallinen’s one-movement fourth string quartet (1971) has a subtitle Quiet Songs (Hiljaisia lauluja). In contrast to the splintered plurality of the third quartet, the fourth is…
Lotta Wennäkoski: Glimt, skymt for four flutes
The score of Lotta Wennäkoski’s Glimt, skymt (Swedish for “Glimpse, glance”) for four flutes opens with a citation from Tua Forsström: “And the water is sparkling and…
Ilkka Kuusisto: Hymns for violoncello and accordion (PDF)
Downloadable and printable PDF edition. Mstislav Rostropovich once said that violoncello and accordion go together much better than cello and piano. Ilkka Kuusisto’s Hymns for violoncello and…
Mikko Heiniö: Concerto for kantele, violin and string orchestra
Mikko Heiniö’s double concerto for kantele, violin and string orchestra (2020-2021) was commissioned by Eija Kankaanranta and premiered by her, Antti Tikkanen (violin) and the Ostrobothinian Chamber…
Iiro Rantala – Timo Parvela: Maukan ja Väykän laulukirja
Televisiosta tutut Maukka-kissa ja Väykkä-koira laulattavat ja riemastuttavat tässä iloa pursuavassa kokoelmassa. Kirjan 23 kuplivaa laulua vievät kuvien ja tarinoiden kautta huimalle musiikkimatkalle, johon mahtuu hullunhauskoja toilailuja,…
Carita Holmström: Catacombs for string quartet
The inspiration for Catacombs (2005), a string quartet by Carita Holmström came from her visit to the 2000-year-old catacombs where the Christians of that time were hiding…
Carita Holmström: Piano trio
Carita Holmström (b. 1954) composed her piano trio (2021-2022) during the Covid-19 pandemic. The names of the movements A Distant Threat, Safe Grounds, The Labyrinth and The…
Jennah Vainio: The Comet for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
The Comet by Jennah Vainio (2004) was commissioned by the Danish Ensemble Nordlys for their H.C. Andersen 200 Years Project and is dedicated to them. The 11-minute…
Robert Kajanus: Berceuse – Huutolaistytön kehtolaulu / The Pauper Girl’s Lullaby for violin and orchestra
Berceuse – The Pauper Girl’s Lullaby is the third movement from orchestral suite “Summer Memories”. Buy now
Finnish “Classics” for wind band
In the project to arrange Finnish 20th century orchestral classics for wind orchestra we are proud to announce the following new arrangements: Uuno Klami (arr. Pasi-Heikki Mikkola):…
Petri Keskitalo: Tubhonium Sketches for euphonium and tuba
Finnish tuba player Petri Keskitalo (1972-2023) was the principal tuba player of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra for over 20 years. The Tubhonium Duo with euphonium player Jukka…
Tommi Hyytinen: Turn for solo horn
The title Turn of Tommi Hyytinen’s work for solo horn (2025) refers to the numerous rhythmic turns it contains. Following an intense rhythmic playfulness at the beginning,…
New Colourstring epub products
Some of the popular Colourstring method books are now available as epubs: Géza Szilvay: Violin Scales and Arpeggios Buy now Géza Szilvay: Violin Scales for Children 1Buy now…
Lotta Wennäkoski: Sic for two violins
The violin duo Sic (2023–24) by Lotta Wennäkoski is a composition of notes, gestures and reactions between the two violinists, and it is inspired by and tailored…
Lotta Wennäkoski: Flickereth for string quartet
Flickereth is Lotta Wennäkoski’s third work for string quartet. The composer tells: “The idea behind the work is, quite simply, flickering – be it of a light,…
Tapio Tuomela: Pace for mixed choir
Pace for 8-part mixed choir (2025) is an appeal for peace, inspired by the enigmatic opening of Carlo Gesualdo’s madrigal Moro, lasso (1611). A fragment of the…
Öinen madonna (Nocturnal Madonna) – Solo songs by Finnish women composers from the 1840s to the 1940s
The Finnish music has had no shortage of women composers. Although many of them had their works published and otherwise created a successful career in music, they…
Lotta Wennäkoski: valo joka for soprano and violin
For the work valo joka (“the light, which”) both the poem by Saila Susiluoto and the composition by Lotta Wennäkoski were commissioned at the same time, and…
Harri Wessman: Ellen’s viola album – Nine easy pieces for viola and piano
Harri Wessman’s compelling and cheerful writing for young musicians results in numerous works. Ellen’s viola album (2012) consists of nine pieces for viola and piano. The viola…
Hanna Lammi & Ulla Raiskio (toim.): Laula uusi laulu! Suomalaisten nykysäveltäjien lauluja
Millä suomalaisella laululla voisi aloittaa klassisen laulun polun? Löytyykö nykysäveltäjiltä helposti lähestyttäviä lauluja nuorelle tai aloittavalle laulajalle? Laula uusi laulu! -kokoelma on syntynyt jo kauan esillä olleesta…