Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. This single-movement work is ca. 13 minutes long.
A Wilderness of Sea draws from four of Shakespeare’s most famous works. This 16-part and 15-minute-long piece emphasizes a common thread among those works that addresses two of the most universal aspects of human existence: water and impermanence.
This publication includes two pieces by Harri Wessman for flute & guitar: Pan and the Nymph Pitys (1979) bears the first symptoms of Wessman’s later style, the texture being softly dissonant. In an old mythological dictionary the composer found that Pan had had some love affair with an other nymph than famous Syrinx as well,…
The name of Lara Poe’s solo trumpet work Triton (2019) alludes both the sea god Triton and the shell named after him. The 6-minute-long piece is constructed of two types of material: the combination of a fanfare like trumpet call with a meandering line, and more undulating material.
Singel excelsis is composed using the material from an earlier work for three organs. Auvinen finds fascinating the rhythmic characteristics of the organ: "Many of the vibrations and rhythmic fluctuations derived from the overtone series and the natural virtuosity of the instrument is utterly fascinating."
The material for Jyrki Linjama’s Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints’ Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The second work in the cycle is a piece for orchestra (2009), the third for string quartet. The fourth and fifth are solo works for viola da gamba and violin.
These earlier published popular works are now also available as downloadable PDF editions: SOLO INSTRUMENT:Aho: Solo XII for viola Buy nowAho: Solo XV for marimba Buy now ORCHESTRA:Klami: Overture to the play Cobblers on the Heath
Tommi Hyytinen’s collection of 30 etudes is at the same time instructive, fun and interesting to play. The etudes consist of similar technical challenges what a low horn player confronts in the orchestra, in chamber music and in solo repertoire
Composer Roope Mäenpää HInsect Symphony (Hyönteissinfonia) is a charming piece for two narrators and orchestra, describing with music Hipinäaasi, apinahiisi
Esa Pietilä’s The Wind Wants examines various kinds of wind: "A balmy summer breeze suddenly gives way to an autumn gale that blows with all its might, whips round corners, forms flurries and howls in the treetops", describes the composer. The 16-minute work includes improvisational passages.
