Composers

    Kari Karjalainen has arranged these popular piano pieces by Erkki Melartin to different brass ensembles. The three pieces are: Tanssilaulu op. 16 / 3 Legend I op. 6 / 1...

    Northern April for mixed choir (SSAATTBarB) is set to text by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). The work was commissioned by Tampere Vocal festival in 2023. Buy now

    The seven movements of A Children's Mass (1973) by Einojuhani Rautavaara are performed in alternation by a children's choir (SSAA) and string orchestra. Only in the final movement are the...

    Downloadable and printable PDF editions Metsän kuninkaalle (To the King of the Forest) op. 4 nro 1 (1906), text from Kanteletar ("Metsän ukko, halliparta, metsän kultaisen kuningas"). This edition originally...

    Ilkka Kuusiston sovitus suomalaisesta kansanlaulusta Laulu on iloni ja työni (Laulu se on ollut minun iltojeni ilo) on kirjoitettu kolmiääniselle kuorolle (sopraano, altto, baritoni) ja sopraanosoolo-obligatolle.  Buy now

    Iiro Rantala's Veneziana for chamber ensemble and piano (2021-2022) is a 50 minute long program about all things Venice; how famous composers were affected by the city, how they affected...

    Lara Poe's energetic Divergence (2015-2016) for string quartet was conceived cyclically: the four movements explore drifting in and out of focus between different materials. A light ditty of the second...

    Bouncy and brisk - but also expressive and super lyrical - Lara Poe's Mainspring for alto saxophone and piano (2020) makes the most of the two instruments. Duration 4'30 Buy...

    The works of New York -based Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b. 1973) have been lauded as breathtaking and profoundly moving. Her stimulating music bristles with energy and tension and revolves...

    Timo-Juhani Kyllönen's Three songs (1994) for soprano and cello spotlight three poems from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (1550−1069 BC). Duration 12 minutes. Buy now