Composers

    String Trio in G Minor (1893-94) is a work of Jean Sibelius's mature chamber music period, and his symphonic writing style is clearly present. The trio was never finished, and...

    The lyrical title of Lotta Wennäkoski's Mellan natt och regn (Swedish for "Between Night and Rain") derives from a poem by Tua Forsström (b. 1947), and the music has both...

    SumussaKalevi Aho composed a shimmering six-minute journey for string quartet under the title Sumussa ("In the fog", 2023). It was premiered by Tempera Quartet at Kaustinen Chamber Music Week in...

    Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) composed Ruija for flute and violoncello (2023) to be performed in Kakslauttanen planetarium dome in Saariselkä, Lapland. It is dedicated to the memory of sculptor Kari...

    A new edition of the study score (2024) of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Concerto for violin and orchestra (1977) is now available. Buy now

    The music of Matthew Whittall opens up landscapes: vast silences, currents of melodies, arches of meditative sound that make time stand still. Since the mid-2000s, his soundscapes have dwelled on...

    Aulis Sallinen's powerful opera Ratsumies (The Horseman, 1972) to the libretto by Paavo Haavikko is the origin of the orchestral songs "Neljä laulua unesta" (Four Dream Songs). The composer arranged...

    Einojuhani Rautavaara's Orpheus singt for mixed choir to poems by Rainer Maria Rilke includes three songs: 1. Da stieg ein Baum, 2. Und fast ein Mädchen wars…, 3. Ein Gott...

    New edition 2024 of the Finnish choir classics! Joonas Kokkonen's (1921-1996) Laudate Domini (1966) for mixed chorus and soprano is the most important of Kokkonen's works for choir. In these...

    Jennah Vainio's Let it be forgotten (2019) to a poem by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was commissioned by the Juvenalia Choir. "Like life itself, love withers in time. Like flowers and...