The material for Jyrki Linjama’s Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints’ Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The second work in the cycle is a piece for orchestra (2009), the third for string quartet. The fourth and fifth are solo works for viola da gamba and violin.
These earlier published popular works are now also available as downloadable PDF editions: SOLO INSTRUMENT:Aho: Solo XII for viola Buy nowAho: Solo XV for marimba Buy now ORCHESTRA:Klami: Overture to the play Cobblers on the Heath
Tommi Hyytinen’s collection of 30 etudes is at the same time instructive, fun and interesting to play. The etudes consist of similar technical challenges what a low horn player confronts in the orchestra, in chamber music and in solo repertoire
Esa Pietilä’s The Wind Wants examines various kinds of wind: "A balmy summer breeze suddenly gives way to an autumn gale that blows with all its might, whips round corners, forms flurries and howls in the treetops", describes the composer. The 16-minute work includes improvisational passages.
The title Fata morgana (2019) refers to a special weather condition which creates illusory effect of mirage-like fairy castle-like monuments in the horizon of the sea. The 6-minute piece brings forth the frightening bass sonority on double manual, full size harpsichord and the brightness on the treble and makes a dialogue out of them.
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.
Lähi (Finnish for ”near”, ”close by”) for violin and clarinet was composed in a situation when the COVID-19 pandemic had shut down most of the society in the spring 2020. Lähi is a diary-entry like vignette, a picture of a moment, of the fear and anxiety caused by the sudden situation – but also a…
The impressionistically flowing 6-minute Bloom (2000) flourishes in three versions: euphonium & piano, tuba & piano and solo euphonium, all included in the package. Buy nowErkki-Sven Tüür: Dick & Toff in Wonderland (tuba & flute) Buy now
Freeman’s Requiem (2018) was commissioned by the Helsinki Chamber Choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Finnish civil war in 1918. Structured around the Latin liturgy of the mass for the dead, the work has a duration of more than an hour and incorporates poems in Finnish, Swedish and English, reflecting both the specific…
Delfiinimeditaatio (A Dolphin Meditation) is set to Harry Salmenniemi’s short story (in Finnish). Salmenniemi’s prose gets a modern treatment by Auvinen: repetitions of words and syllables, cutting, onomatopoetism, hissing and sprechgesang methods are employed. Buy now
