Composers

    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...

    Tämä kuorosarja oli Oulaisten Nuorisokuoron tilaus sen 45-vuotisjuhlakonserttiin. Anna Elina Isoaron tekstiin sävelletty teos muodostuu neljästä osasta: 1. Muistikirja 2. Opintie 3. Historiikki 4. Sukutaulu. 55011-338-1, € 9,90

    This piano piece is a fantasy meditation on the Train/Spaceship chords in the opera "Einstein on the Beach" by Philip Glass. There is something strange in the repeating five-chord progression...

    Aho’s song cycle is set to poems of a Finnish modernist Tuomas Anhava (1927-2001). The composer tells: “I tried to create a work in which the words and the music...

    Scored for piano left hand and string quartet, Mysterium (2019) consists of four movements performed without a break. Inspired by the last, unfinished work, by Alexander Scriabin, Mysterium is a...

    A large-scale work in four movements lasting over half an hour, Kalevi Aho’s Sonata for violoncello and piano (2019) in four movements is furios, virtuosic and poweful, with a lyrical...