Composers

    Iiro Rantala composed 10 new jazzy piano tunes for this collection. They are swinging, surprising and mood-creating tunes, with imaginative details spicing up the melodies - rhythmic hooks, playing with...

    Järnefelt composed his Festouverture (Festive Overture) for the official opening of the Finnish National Theatre in 1902. The overture is firmly anchored on a jubilant D major and observes the...

    This piece for 12 musicians (symphonic wind instruments and percussion) explores the mental images of autumn, melancholy and freedom. The work is in one movement, this revised version dates from...

    Kalevi Aho composed this piece for oboe in 2015 for the 60th anniversary of his brother Keijo Aho, who also premiered the work. The 10-minute work has five movements and...

    Kalevi Aho composed ER-OS in 2015 as a wedding gift for conductor-clarinetist Osmo Vänskä and violinist Erin Keefe and named the work with the initials of their names. The virtuosic...

    Uuno Klami (1900–1961) became one of the leading Finnish Modernists during the 1920s. His sonata for viola and piano in B flat minor (1920) stayed forgotten for a long time...

    In spring 2020 the coronavirus began to spread throughout the world and in many places people were subjected to quarantine. It was then that the Japanese violist Hiyoli Togawa proposed...

    Mot natten (Towards night, 2018) found its inspiration and name in Finnish poet Bo Carpelan’s (1926-2011) posthumous poetry collection though the movements are not tied to specific poems. Duration ca....

    Linjama’s second string quartet (2018) is subtitled Allerheiligentag III. The material for the Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints’ Day (the other works in the cycle...

    This swirling duo was composed in 1991. It is an exciting, lively dialogue between two contrasting instruments. Duration ca. 6 min. See the performance by Kristin Müürsepp and Enri Remmelgas...