Jyrki Linjama wrote Prélude oublié (2021/24) for Juho Pohjonen. The title alludes to Baroque tradition of arpeggiated keyboard preludes, filtered in a similar way as French baroque elements appear in...

Jyrki Linjama (b. 1962) composed Chants and Spirituals for brass quintet in winter 2022/2023 for the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s chamber music series. The title of the work points in...

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...

The title of Sonata da chiesa I for piano alludes to the sonata tradition of the Baroque at its weightiest and most solemn. The polyphonic church sonata with its strict...

Linjama’s second string quartet (2018) is subtitled Allerheiligentag III. The material for the Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints’ Day (the other works in the cycle...

Jyrki Linjama’s (b. 1962) poetic music finds its counterpart in the poems of a Finnish modernist Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995). The 23-minute song cycle ”himmeä, kirkas, himmeä…” was commissioned and premiered...

This "church sonata" has three movements, each of which has a definite liturgical character. The cantus firmus of all of the movements are based on ancient choral melodies. Hence the...

for violin and pianoNocturnes & scherzos based on a Finnish folk song. Suitable tor teaching purposes as the technical and esthetical solutions in the music open paths towards more difficult...