Composer and musician Timo Alakotila is a distinguished, active and versatile talent in the Finnish music scene whose long career working with different genres of music – folk music in particular – has been ground-breaking. Koivu ja tähti (The birch and the star) for female choir (SSAA) is set to a poem in Finnish by…
Johanna Almark is one of the most versatile figures in music scene in Finland: singer, conductor, composer, arranger and violinist. The rain it raineth every day is a swinging 21st century madrigal for mixed 5-part choir, set to Feste’s song from the The Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Buy now
Eeva Sarmanto-Neuvosen ja Liisa Aroheimo-Marvian editoima kokoelma erityylisiä ja -tasoisia sonaattimuodon kehitystä ilmentäviä sävellyksiä kolmelta eri vuosisadalta jälleen saatavilla! Kokoelma sisältää 15 teosta 12 eri säveltäjältä.Buy now
On the 50th birthday of Juha T Koskinen we are proud to publish two of his string quartets.String quartet no. 2 "Under a Ginkgo Tree in Tiergarten" (2014) is, according to the composer, connected to great changes in his personal life: "A few months after the score was finished, I became a father. The musical…
Fennica Gehrman celebrates its 20th anniversary with this collection of commissioned pieces for violin and piano. Stringendo contains ten pieces from the composers Kalevi Aho, Kimmo Hakola, Mikko Heiniö, Olli Kortekangas, Jyrki Linjama, Veli-Matti Puumala, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Lotta Wennäkoski, Harri Wessman and Matthew Whittall.
Lauri Mäntysaari’s Prelude to Future Life (Preludi tulevalle elämälle, 2005, op. 10) explores how strongly a limited harmonic selection, appearingly anxious and tight, can result to positivity and warmth. The duration of this scherzo is 3-4 minutes.
Kuusi pianokappaletta kertovat kromatiikalla, kimaltavilla dissonansseilla ja muunnelluilla asteikoilla maustettuja, vahvatunnelmaisia tarinoita. Monenlaisia tekniikoita hyödyntävät bagatellit sopivat musiikkiopiston perustason jälkeiseksi ohjelmistoksi ja esityskappaleiksi. Teemu Halmkrona’s The charm of the deep forest is a collection of six bagatelles for piano, rich of chromaticism and many different modes.
Karelian Dance for violin and string orchestraVirtuoso-like La Danza Karelia for solo violin and string orchestra is published for the first time. Buy now Koska valaissee kointähtönenSonninen’s arrangement of beloved hymn "When does the morning star light up" is compatible to use with the choir version or as accompaniment for solo singer.
Mikko Heiniö’s April evenings for black twins (2015) is a sonata in five movements. This 15-minute virtuoso piece for pianos is inspired by evenings in the month of April. The twins here are identical, so in addition of being individuals they also form an orchestral super instrument.
The Tunnel at the End of the Light is a commission by the Lieksa Brass Festival for its International Tuba Competition in 2023. The playful work employs quirky rhythms and changing meters, while exploring the upper and lower register of the tuba. Lyrical passages quickly change into driving rhythmic patterns, as if a hysterical tuba-player…
