This collection of practice pieces is designed to cast you into a whirl-pool of world music. The rhythms, harmonies and melodies of different cultural and geographical regions pose multiple challenges. Jump on board for a journey round the world and expand your repertoire with these ethno etudes!
Kalevi Aho’s popular series of Solo pieces for different instruments gets a new piece for clarinet. Composed in 2018 it was premiered in October 2019 by Simon Reitmaier in Tirol, Austria. Duration c. 11 min. 55011-488-3, € 13,40
A combination of sound and aerodynamics, an idea behind the title Buoyancy is the lift off to flight, getting up from the ground and at the end landing on one’s home turf. The piece is to bring joy for young musicians in music making and finding new ways to produce sounds. Composed in spring 2019,…
Patikka ("Trek") for piano trio (2011) is a perfect chamber music piece for young players. The idiomatic writing for each instrument and clear, memorable characters create a transparent texture. The piece was commissioned by Juvenalia Music Institute for a chamber music competition. 55011-536-1, € 14,50
Instrumentally acrobatic Buster! (2002-2003, rev. 2007) has a hint of ragtime, sings romantically and makes fast changes in articulations, dynamics and registers almost as they were musical counterparts of the mimical actors in silent films. 55011-514-9, € 14,50
Chiroptera (2017) for guitar embraces the instrument with several compositional solutions born from the attributes of the guitar. The 12-minute work has three movements and a complex texture, but its structure is clearly defined and understandable. 55011-522-4, € 18,90
(and other bass clef instruments) Working Zone is a new kind of guide for warming up and working the intervals for low brass and all bass clef instruments. It helps you get through your daily exercises easily!55011-534-7, € 28,90
The most beloved pieces for string orchestra are now available in the Helsinki Sibelius Edition series as Urtext editions. Andante festivo JS34bScore 55011-399-2, € 12,10 Buy nowRakastava / The Beloved Op.14Score 55011-401-2, € 12,10 Buy nowScherzo Op.4Score 55011-389-3, € 12,10 Buy now
X’seven (2010/18) is the final piece of a solo cello suite consisting of seven compositions which can be performed individually or detached with another X-composition. The works are composed by using the same material viewed at different angles. In the first compositions of X-suite seemingly random fragments join together piece by piece as the work…
The qualitative elements of bars with their upbeats, accents and GPs create a refined musical rhetoric in this piece for bassoon and piano. The roguish poetic metres gambol jerkily along, and although at surface level the music may appear guileless, Lintinen knows his polyphony, judging by the capital roving of his voices even in the…
