La Violina for 4 violins introduces technics used in modern music and it is challenging yet not overly difficult for young musicians who are about to start their professional studies. All the four parts of this 8-minute piece are equally important. Two fast movements frame the slower, cantabile-like middle movement.Score & parts 55011-616-0, € 27,50
Sulho Ranta (1901–1960) had a great impact on the musical scene in Finland in the dawn of Modernism. His atonal and modern idiom transformed into more traditional towards the 1930’s, but as a writer he remained always a proponent of contemporary music. Kolme kiinalaista runoa (Three Chinese Poems) for voice, flute & piano op. 53…
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO! In 1929 Sibelius sent some small pieces to the New York publisher Carl Fischer for consideration. Included among these was the Suite for Violin and String Orchestra which represents the culmination point in a series of works written for violin and orchestra (starting with the serenades…
Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Valses lentes et amoureuses consists of two waltzes and dates from 1932. It is one of the most graceful pieces of salon music ever composed by Uuno Klami. The first waltz, Con passione, begins in subtly…
Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Souvenir for solo violin and string ensemble dates from 1929. It is as a melodically expressive, small-scale counterpart for chamber ensemble of the virtuoso, imaginatively written Opernredoute concert waltz for large orchestra. Score, solo & string…
Uuno Klami (1900–1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Berceuse for violin and piano is composer’s own arrangement of the second movement of his Symphonie enfantine op. 7. Laulelma (A Little Song) for violin and piano was an aphoristic birthday greeting to a friend in…
Victoria Yagling (1946−2011) made her career as a cellist which served as an excellent accompaniment to composing which she began at an early age. In her extensive catalogue the three cello concertos are the main works. Her expressive, romantically orientated style is Russian in spirit and has grown out of the soil provided by Prokofiev…
Victoria Yagling’s main works are written for cello, her own instrument. However, she was also a skillful pianist being able to master works such as Chopin’s Etudes. The amount of her piano works encompasses five hours of music in total. Autumn Diary dates from 2003 and is in four movements.55011-633-7, € 10,00
Queen Bee is a solo work for bass tuba or contrabass tuba. The piece starts with a melodic phrase, which is followed by and intersected with, a groove in varying time signatures. In the end the melody line re-emerges to reign supreme. 55011-626-9, € 11,20
Hiiri on tarina hiirestä, joka asuu yksin rakentamassaan koneessa. Koneen sisällä hiiri kuitenkin tuntee yksinäisyyttä. Hiiri on sävelletty lasten ja nuorten konserttikäyntiä varten. Siinä on tarina, jota kertoja ja kuvat tukevat, mutta pääosassa on musiikki. Osat ovat lyhyitä ja karakteristisia. The Mouse is a story about a mouse that lives alone inside a monster…
