Roope Mäenpää’s Sonata for flute and piano (2020) was composed on a small island Utö in the Archipelago Sea (in the Baltic Sea). Isolated from his normal environment the composer didn’t find so much peace or harmony as insecurity and introversion. These sensations of otherness, together with an intensive creative project, left a diary-like mark…
Composer Roope Mäenpää HInsect Symphony (Hyönteissinfonia) is a charming piece for two narrators and orchestra, describing with music Hipinäaasi, apinahiisi
Lähi (Finnish for ”near”, ”close by”) for violin and clarinet was composed in a situation when the COVID-19 pandemic had shut down most of the society in the spring 2020. Lähi is a diary-entry like vignette, a picture of a moment, of the fear and anxiety caused by the sudden situation – but also a…
The impressionistically flowing 6-minute Bloom (2000) flourishes in three versions: euphonium & piano, tuba & piano and solo euphonium, all included in the package. Buy nowErkki-Sven Tüür: Dick & Toff in Wonderland (tuba & flute) Buy now
A combination of sound and aerodynamics, an idea behind the title Buoyancy is the lift off to flight, getting up from the ground and at the end landing on one’s home turf. The piece is to bring joy for young musicians in music making and finding new ways to produce sounds. Composed in spring 2019,…
