Composers

    Sinuhe is based on the best-seller book by Mika Waltari and it acts as an example of a Finnish composition founded on a non-Finnish subject handled in a non-National-Romantic way....

    Englund's Piano Trio (1982) is sombre in mood. In the second movement, Englund’s trademark playfulness carries a hint of sarcasm and at times builds up to a wild militant dance...

    Uuno Klami (1900–1961) was an acclaimed orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. This edition of chamber music composed by him between 1917 and 1952...

    Transcription by Matti Rantanen for accordion of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s early piano composition Icons (1955) which shows great variety in the young composer’s style. 55011-707-5, 16,00 €

    Kalevi Aho’s guitar concerto (2018) is in seven movements performed without a break and each using the guitar in a different way. Duration ca. 30 minutes. Solo part 55011-710-5, 24,90...

    Lintinen's concerto (2012-13) is full of rhythmic drive. The orchestra is handled as a large chamber ensemble in which listening closely to the other players is both possible and of...

    Kai Nieminen’s two guitar pieces pay homage to 20th century French compositions: Le Tombeau de Darius Milhaud (2021) draws inspiration from Milhaud’s short guitar composition Segoviana (1957) and Joan Miro’s...

    Piano reduction available for the first time! Originally for voice & orchestra, Kokkonen’s The Hades of the Birds consists of three songs, two shorter ones framing a longer middle one....

    These settings of poems by Eeva-Liisa Manner (Orphic Songs, 1973) is now being published for the first time. The poems draw on ancient mythology, oriental philosophy and mysticism in their...

    The delightful carol sequence by Joonas Kokkonen now finally available as an arrangement for mixed choir made by Kokkonen's composition student Jouko Linjama. Includes four Christmas songs (Jouluna, Legenda, Aattoiltana...