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…
Downloadable and printable PDF edition. Armas Järnefelt (1869-1958) sävelsi kantaatin Isänmaan kasvot V. A. Koskenniemen tekstiin Turun Suomalaisen Yliopiston vihkimäjuhlaan, jota vietettiin 12. toukokuuta vuonna 1927. Kantaatista irroitetun yksinlaulun Isänmaan kasvot sovitti mieskuorolle (TTBB) Arvo Kuikka. Buy now
Roope Mäenpää’s Sonata for flute and piano (2020) was composed on a small island Utö in the Archipelago Sea (in the Baltic Sea). Isolated from his normal environment the composer didn’t find so much peace or harmony as insecurity and introversion. These sensations of otherness, together with an intensive creative project, left a diary-like mark…
Lauri Mäntysaari’s solo accordion work Élégie (2020-2021) was forming into a serene, melancholic passacaglia, when the devastating news shocked the world: the iconic cathedral of Notre Dame was on fire. The composer decided to reform the plan for his work, going through purgatory towards a distant reminiscence of the earliest example of European musical polyhphony,…
Viisi joululaulua – Fem julsånger – Five Christmas Songs op. 1 for voice and piano The long-awaited Urtext edition (2023) of Jean Sibelius’ Five Christmas Songs op. 1 for voice and piano is based on the critical edition presented in the volume VIII/2 Works for Solo Voice Vol. 2 of Jean Sibelius Works (JSW) edited…
Night Rowing on the Lake for piano Lauri Kilpiö’s (b. 1974) Night Rowing on the Lake (Yösoutu järvellä, 2021) for solo piano was commissioned by the Tapiola Youth Piano Competition and first peformed by its participants in November 2021. In about four minutes’ duration the work travels from dreamlike floating visions to bright and powerful…
Balai for guitar Balai for solo guitar (2009) was inspired by the most common technique on the world’s most common instrument – strumming. The Ballet interlude momentarily interrupts the rhythmic continuum with its decadent dance steps. “Balai” is French for a lute, a broom, or a dust mop. Balayettes for two guitars Lotta Wennäkoski’s Balayettes…
