Composers

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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,...

    The title Fata morgana (2019) refers to a special weather condition which creates illusory effect of mirage-like fairy castle-like monuments in the horizon of the sea. The 6-minute piece brings...

    The "Mass of the Forest" follows the catholic mass with a pantheistic approach. The 30-minute long mass is composed to a Swedish text by Göran Stenius (1909-2000), a Finnish poet,...

    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....