Jennah Vainio’s orchestral Sylvia’s Lullaby is to be premiered in a concert given by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra on 20 October. The piece was inspired by the Pauper’s Lullaby (1907) by Robert Kajanus, the subject of which was one to which Vainio could relate because of her orphaned grandmother. Sylvia’s Lullaby is part of the…
The string trio End Credits (2016) is intended to play together with a video projection. Composer Jennah Vainio sees it as a portrayal of a person’s inner mind: "It is a beautiful, tender and introvert snapshot of a moment, a journey into the thoughts of a person. The work can be visualized by a video…
Queen Bee is a solo work for bass tuba or contrabass tuba. The piece starts with a melodic phrase, which is followed by and intersected with, a groove in varying time signatures. In the end the melody line re-emerges to reign supreme. 55011-626-9, € 11,20
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
Jennah Vainio has succeeded in masterly fashion in blending different structural elements to form a clear continuum in this 9-minute long work for string orchestra 2001.(score) 55011-504-0, € 19,90
for flute, clarinet and guitar When composing this piece Vainio underwent many lessons in the school of life. All these left their mark in this work which moves onward like a diesel machine. Score and parts: 55011-430-2, € 31,90
