Composers

    Mikko Heiniö composed his Sonata for Guitar (2019) with the instrument on his lap. The inspiring cooperation with the guitarist Patrik Kleemola can be heard throughout the four-movement sonata. The...

    Rautavaara's First Symphony was written in 1955 in the United States. The composer revised the symphony first in 1988 and second time in 2003 when the movement Poetico was added....

    Two Mythical Scenes for orchestra was completed in 1956 when Sallinen was Aarre Merikanto’s composition student. The work received its first performance only after a good deal of pressure from...

    Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935) was still seeking to establish a style of his own in his early instrumental works. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in the late 1950s, first...

    The texts of Alex Freeman’s Calle sin nombre (2019) are drawn from quotations of families seeking asylum who are victims of the policies of family separation aggressively and abruptly enacted...

    Kalevi Aho’s Flute Concerto (2002) was initially inspired by the magnificent, enigmatic poetry of the Swede Tomas Tranströmer, but the vocal ideas nevertheless adapted themselves to the flute. There is...

    Kalevi Aho’s Clarinet concerto (2005) has five movements played without pause. It was premiered in London by Martin Fröst in 2006 and is one of the best known and most...

    Kai Nieminen’s Fragmental Reflections (2018) draws on the melancholy mood of the Finnish folk song "Tein minä pillin pajupuusta" (I made a willow whistle), familiar to most Finns. The emotional...

    Matthew Whittall’s (b. 1975) Love is Little (2009) is a modern motet which uses a Shaker hymn as cantus firmus. The original melody is gradually slowed down, looped and fragmented,...

    Dedicated to and premiered by Petri Kumela, Pehr Henrik Nordgren’s (1944–2008) Come da lontano for guitar (2003) carries ideas from Nordgren’s previous work Amor – desesperada op. 120 (for soprano...