Einojuhani Rautavaara: Divertimento for string orchestra [New edition 2020]
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Einojuhani Rautavaara: Divertimento for string orchestra [New edition 2020]

A completely new edition of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Divertimento is based on the composer’s manuscript, incorporating corrections and comments by the composer’s in various sources. Written in 1953, the 9-minute Divertimento is one of Rautavaara’s early works in which the rhythms and melodies of Finnish folk music have left a strong mark. In this respect it…

Kalevi Aho: La Violina for four violins
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Kalevi Aho: La Violina for four violins

La Violina for 4 violins introduces technics used in modern music and it is challenging yet not overly difficult for young musicians who are about to start their professional studies. All the four parts of this 8-minute piece are equally important. Two fast movements frame the slower, cantabile-like middle movement.Score & parts 55011-616-0, € 27,50

Sulho Ranta: Works for voice & piano (PDF)
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Sulho Ranta: Works for voice & piano (PDF)

Sulho Ranta (1901–1960) had a great impact on the musical scene in Finland in the dawn of Modernism. His atonal and modern idiom transformed into more traditional towards the 1930’s, but as a writer he remained always a proponent of contemporary music. Kolme kiinalaista runoa (Three Chinese Poems) for voice, flute & piano op. 53…

Jean Sibelius: Suite for Violin op. 117
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Jean Sibelius: Suite for Violin op. 117

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO! In 1929 Sibelius sent some small pieces to the New York publisher Carl Fischer for consideration. Included among these was the Suite for Violin and String Orchestra which represents the culmination point in a series of works written for violin and orchestra (starting with the serenades…

Uuno Klami: Valses lentes et amoureuses for string orchestra and piano
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Uuno Klami: Valses lentes et amoureuses for string orchestra and piano

Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Valses lentes et amoureuses consists of two waltzes and dates from 1932. It is one of the most graceful pieces of salon music ever composed by Uuno Klami. The first waltz, Con passione, begins in subtly…

Uuno Klami: Souvenir for violin and string ensemble
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Uuno Klami: Souvenir for violin and string ensemble

Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Souvenir for solo violin and string ensemble dates from 1929. It is as a melodically expressive, small-scale counterpart for chamber ensemble of the virtuoso, imaginatively written Opernredoute concert waltz for large orchestra. Score, solo & string…

Uuno Klami: Berceuse & Laulelma for violin and piano
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Uuno Klami: Berceuse & Laulelma for violin and piano

Uuno Klami (1900–1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Berceuse for violin and piano is composer’s own arrangement of the second movement of his Symphonie enfantine op. 7. Laulelma (A Little Song) for violin and piano was an aphoristic birthday greeting to a friend in…

Victoria Yagling: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Victoria Yagling: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Victoria Yagling (1946−2011) made her career as a cellist which served as an excellent accompaniment to composing which she began at an early age. In her extensive catalogue the three cello concertos are the main works. Her expressive, romantically orientated style is Russian in spirit and has grown out of the soil provided by Prokofiev…