Salon Latino (2017–21) has three movements: 1. Salsa y guacamole combines jazz and samba, 2. Fresas con crema is a slow Venezuelan merengue and 3. Tequila y tacos is a joropo from the eastern llanos of Colombia. The first two movements serve very well as student material for young trumpetists. Buy now
This sparkling orchestral piece by Finnish-Greek composer Petros Paukkunen is a continuum of ritual dance and meditation, as the composer describes it. The 12-minute piece was premiered in 2019 at the Sibelius Festival in Lahti.
Kalevi Aho wrote the hilarious, virtuosic and compact "Berliner Bagatelle" in winter 2018 at the request of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet as a sort of concert encore. Duration 5 minutes.
Beneath for wind quintet (2007) was commissioned by the quintet Arktinen hysteria. The work was premiered in 2007.
Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä’s output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, images of nature and narrative structures. Many of her…
The concerto for violin and orchestra was composed in 2005 for Erkki Palola. The inspiration of the "Nonexistent Knight" was found in literature (Calvino, Cervantes), in music (Monteverdi) and in the singing of birds. Solo part & piano reduction
A melodic fragment which hints at both folk music and the virtuosic classical violin tradition acts as a sort of structural anchor for Lara Poe’s Musings for solo violin (2014). Musings is structured in sections that alternate between more rhythmically free material and rigorously notated material. Duration ca. 5 minutes.
The latest addition to Aho’s sequel for solo instrument pieces: Solo XVII takes a notice to the special features of the clavichord, which is different from that of a piano or harpsichord. The piece was premiered by Michael Hasel in October 2021.
Géza Szilvay’s Kreutzerini, here adapted for viola by David Banney, consists of 42 finger exercises for perfect intonation in the first position. Kreutzerini is a supplementary material for the Colourstrings Viola ABC Book B but it can be used independently as well.
The volume G of the popular Colourstrings violin tutors by Géza Szilvay studies every position of the violin in a separate volume. The extensive Book G5 – Sixth and Seventh Position follows the key principles of Colourstrings methodology, but it can be fully utilized also without any previous use or knowledge about the Colourstrings method….
