Olli Kortekangas: Ave Maria for mixed choir
Olli Kortekangas’s Ave Maria (2023) for mixed choir brings colours of Italian folk music into the Angelical salutation. Buy now
Olli Kortekangas premieres
The Saimaa Sinfonietta has commissioned Olli Kortekangas to write a Guitar Concerto to be premiered in Lappeenranta on 14 November with Janne Malinen as the soloist. Other new Kortekangas works include Piir (Border), a blend of poetry and music performed in European cities with a mutual border; first in Valga, on the border between Estonia and Latvia, on 7 May and then…
Olli Kortekangas: Vida vingar – Partita for piano and organ
Olli Kortekangas composed Vida vingar (Swedish for Wide wings) for piano and organ in 2021-22. It was premiered in St. John’s Church in Helsinki – with 70 metres distance between the two instruments. Buy now
Olli Kortekangas: Missa silvestris for mezzo-soprano, male choir and organ
The "Mass of the Forest" follows the catholic mass with a pantheistic approach. The 30-minute long mass is composed to a Swedish text by Göran Stenius (1909-2000), a Finnish poet, writer and diplomat.
Olli Kortekangas: Maamerkit – sarja diskanttikuorolle (SSAA)
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
Olli Kortekangas: Akvarelli for mixed choir
Akvarelli (Watercolour, 1994) for mixed choir by Olli Kortekangas is composed to a poem by Matsuo Bashō, the greatest master of haiku in the 17th century. The text is translated in Finnish by Kai Nieminen. 55011-579-8, € 3,90
Olli Kortekangas: Partita for organ
Olli Kortekangas (b. 1955) was struggling when looking for a suitable chorale or theme after a commission from Tomi Satomaa to compose a variation work for organ. He finally found it close at hand, on his very own desk; Partita is based on a chorale melody Kortekangas composed some years ago.55011-575-0, € 17,80
Olli Kortekangas: Luotujen virsi, Missa brevis for descant chorus and piano
A missa brevis for descant choir and piano (organ ad lib.) by Olli Kortekangas gets a Finnish colour in Laudamus, the text of which "Luotujen virsi" by Pekka Kivekäs is a poem in the Kalevala meter. The composer encourages conductors to find different ways to perform the work: for example doubling or replacing the chorus…
Olli Kortekangas: Songs from the opera My Brother’s Keeper
Three songs in Finnish from the opera Veljeni vartija/ My Brother’s Keeper.Sanasotaa for SSAATTB choir and piano: 55011-423-4, € 6,70 Buy now Mustaa, mustaa for mixed choir:55011-421-0, € 4,20