Composers

    Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Souvenir for solo violin and string ensemble dates from 1929. It...

    Uuno Klami (1900–1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Berceuse for violin and piano is composer’s own arrangement of the...

    Victoria Yagling (1946−2011) made her career as a cellist which served as an excellent accompaniment to composing which she began at an early age. In her extensive catalogue the three...

    Victoria Yagling's main works are written for cello, her own instrument. However, she was also a skillful pianist being able to master works such as Chopin’s Etudes. The amount of...

    Queen Bee is a solo work for bass tuba or contrabass tuba. The piece starts with a melodic phrase, which is followed by and intersected with, a groove in varying...

    Juhani Nuorvala’s (b. 1961) Variationes ex ”Bene quondam” for string orchestra was commissioned by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in 2017. Collaboration with the musicians led to experiments with microtonality. The...

    Nuorvala has been described as an “electro-acoustic urban minimalist”, he seeks inspiration from widely varied sources. With the enthusiasm of an explorer, he has delved into microtonality, French spectral music,...

    The corrected and updated edition of the piano reduction of the opera Viimeiset kiusaukset (1973–75) is made by Pekka Asikainen (who has worked with it as a répétiteur for decades)...

    Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958) composed his string sextet in 1932 for the competition of Library of Congress, Washington. The work was however not accepted because it was sent without the performance...

    These three songs (2015) capture little moments of childhood wonder. Lilian Moore (1909–2004) was a poet and editor who helped makíng children's books more affordable and worked to combat racial...