Composers

    The Viola Concerto is part of an entire concert, which Kalevi Aho composed for the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland to be premiered in 2007. Concerto is in a single movement,...

    The guitar miniature Törö (2007) is dedicated to the guitarist Petri Kumela. Törö is Finnish for Gudgeon (Gobio gobio), a species of fish living in fresh-water streams. It communicates with...

    Composed for the chamber music camp at Finns (Espoo, Finland) – where Harri Wessman was the composer-in-residence for many years – this frisky, happy 13-minute music for as many violins...

    The popular series of four carols now available on digital download. Suosittu joululaulusarja saatavana nyt sähköisenä lataustiedostona.1. Jouluna (Johannes Suomalainen) 2. Aattoiltana (Ester Ahokainen) 3. Metsän joulu (Oiva Paloheimo) 4....

    Five Aphorisms (1973, originally for piano) combines playful characters with long-lined melodies. Kari Jämbäck’s arrangement for flute and guitar is suitable also for pedagogical use.Score & parts 55011-648-1, € 17,20

    Capriccio (1989) puts the idea of caprice into practice in various ways. The 10-minute-long work in three movements is scored for the same instruments as Mozart’s Serenades for winds. The...

    Hele (2018) was written for the musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. It is set up for an ensemble consisting of woodwind quintet, trumpet, percussion and string quintet. Wennäkoski...

    The six-movement Per speculum in enigmatae suite (Through a glass, darkly) is published for the first time. Melartin assembled it from different separate pieces. The biblical heading maybe has a...

    This work is scored for a string orchestra of twenty players. The piano part is honouring the ‘Beethovenian-Lisztian-Brahmsian’ pianistic tradition. At times it is lean and linear, but the work...

    In spring 2006 Kalevi Aho came across the posthumously published The Book of Questions (1974) by Pablo Neruda. It consists of short, exquisite questions which force the reader to look...