Downloadable and printable PDF edition / Ladattava ja itse tulostettava PDF-nuotti Ahti Sonninen composed the festive overture Laulujen virta (Stream of Songs) / Preludio festivo in 1953 for Finnish book publisher WSOY’s 75th anniversary. Arvo Kuikka has arranged it for wind band. Buy now
Published for the first time in 2024! Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Concerto grottesco was composed in 1950 and is among his first orchestral works. With overall duration of 6 minutes, the work includes four movements. Buy now
Published for the first time in 2024, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s (1928-2016) Hajoaminen (Dissolution, 1956) is set to four grim poems by Finnish poet Lassi Nummi (1928-2012). Plaintive motifs and the use of ostinato creates a static athmosphere and links the songs together. Elegia (Elegy) is Rautavaara’s first composition where he used twelve-tone technique. Buy now
Quasi una fantasia for horn and organ (2011) was composed on the commission by organist Jan Lehtola, who premiered it with horn player Petri Komulainen in 2012. The piece is extremely virtuosic, and almost concerto-like in nature. At times the horn plays also quarter-tone scales by combining ‘perfect’ and ‘imperfect’ (the 7th, 11th and 13th)…
Kalevi Aho composed Sonata III (2022) for the accordionist Janne Valkeajoki. The six fairly short movements are performed without a break. Duration 23 minutes. Buy now
Paavo Korpijaakko’s guitar sonata Kimberley was composed in 2006 and dedicated to Petri Kumela. Korpijaakko’s first piece for guitar includes a tribute to Debussy, a playful scherzo and some shameless flirting with a flamenco. The 21-minute sonata has four movements. Buy now
Victoria Yagling’s Suite for Cello and String Orchestra (1967) is one of her first successes as a composer. The four-movement suite has varied moods from a brisk toccatas to elegiatic melodies. The piano reduction is made by professor Yuriy Leonovich. Buy now
Greta Dahlström (1887-1978) was a Finnish composer, choir conductor and music teacher. She extensively worked on composing Finnish folk music and collected folk songs for the Swedish Literature Society. Folkvisa från Houtskär (Swedish for Folksong from Houtskari, an island in the southwest coast of Finland) is beautifully arranged for string orchestra and evokes fateful athmosphere…
Downloadable and printable PDF edition. Mikko Heiniö selected and organized the poems in Finnish by Lassi Nummi for his song cycle Syyskesän laulu (Finnish for Late summer song) from the collection “Kaikki elämäni valo”. Duration: c. 17′ Buy now
Downloadable and printable PDF edition. Kimmo Hakola (b. 1958) composed the Kivi Songs in Paris in spring 2007. “Distance and pining for home conjured forth from the poems timeless echoes of the primitive folk singer. It was as if the poems had the seeds of melodies hidden deep in ageless recesses, and one only had…
