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• Uusinta’s musical catalogue to Fennica (1/2026)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara – always up to date (4/2025)
• Seven questions for Timo-Juhani Kyllönen (3/2025)
• Focus on Pasi Lyytikäinen (2/2025)
• Seven questions for Veli-Matti Puumala (1/2025)
• Aulis Sallinen: music aims at a different humanity (4/2024)
• Erkki Melartin jubilee (4/2024)
• Matthew Whittall – the Light behind the Landscape (3/2024)
• Olli Kortekangas and the power of the human voice (2/2024)
• Harri Wessman at 75 (1/2024)
• Roope Mäenpää – a versatile talent (No. 4/2023)
• Géza Szilvay – the taming of the violin (No. 3/2023)
• Focus on Kalevi Aho (No. 2/2023)
• Seven Questions for Mikko Heiniö (No. 1/2023)
• Timo Alakotila combines modern and traditional musical languages (No. 4/2022)
• Seven questions for Lara Poe (No. 3/2022)
• Jyrki Linjama – a composer exploring fundamental questions (No. 2/2022)
• Making women’s voices heard (No. 1/2022)
• Seven questions for Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (No. 4/2021)
• Die Zaubermelodika premieres at the Komische Oper Berlin (No. 3/2021)
• Nature in music (No. 2/2021)
• Joonas Kokkonen centenary (No. 1/2021)
• Antti Auvinen’s turbocharged world of sound (No. 4/2020)
• Notes from our composers (No. 2/2020)
• Seven questions for Matthew Whittall (No. 1/2020)
• Lotta Wennäkoski: exposed to reality (No. 4/2019)
• Seven Questions for Jyrki Linjama (No. 3/2019)
• Esa Pietilä – modern music with room for improvisation (No. 2/2019)
• Kalevi Aho on the threshold of his eight decade (No. 1/2019)
• Armas Järnefelt – and all-round Romantic (No. 4/2018)
• The diversiform musical ethos of Tapio Tuomela (No. 3/2018)
• An interview with Kimmo Hakola (No. 2/2018)
• Creative balance between tradition and innovation in Mikko Heiniö’s music (No. 1/2018)
• Seven questions for Paavo Heininen (No. 4/2017)
• Olli Kortekangas: It’s not art’s job to say who is right or who is wrong (No.3/2017)
• Harri Vuori in a world of myth and fantasy (No.2/2017)
• Veljo Tormis – in the fields of epic (No. 1/2017)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara in memoriam (No. 4/2016)
• Seven questions to Harri Wessman (No. 3/2016)
• Fences no obstacle for music’s gentleman (Kirmo Lintinen) (No. 2/2016)
• Einar Englund – classicist and classic (No. 1/2016)
• The Sibelius piano miniatures (No. 4/2015)
• The Return of Joy – Matthew Whittall (No. 3/2015)
• Kari Tikka’s opera presents Luther both as a reformer and controversial individual (No. 2/2015)
• Olli Kortekangas – seeking the connection between feeling, words and music (No. 1/2015)
• Lotta Wennäkoski paints sumptuous worlds of shimmering timbres (No. 4/2014)
• World premiere of an Ibsen opera by Reinvere (No. 3/2014)
• Juhani Nuorvala – a portrait (No. 2/2014)
• Seven questions for Mihkel Kerem (No. 1/2014)
• Composing a way of life for Einojuhani Rautavaara (No. 4/2013)
• Veli-Matti Puumala – a master of time (No. 3/2013)
• Seven questions for Pasi Lyytikäinen (No. 2/2013)
• Paavo Heininen – creation, variation, simulation (No. 1/2013)
• Mikko Heiniö’s unusual concerto hybrids (No. 4/2012)
• Hannu Pohjannoro – a creator of exquisite worlds of timbre (No. 3/2012)
• Concertos for all orchestral instruments (Kalevi Aho) (No. 2/2012)
• Women in the maelstrom of history (Purge) (No 1/2012)
• Armas Järnefelt – A Finnish Wagnerian (No 4/2011)
• Victoria Yagling in memoriam (No 3/2011)
• Erik Bergman – a bird that flew in the front (No 2/2011)
• Kyllönen’s music covers the entire emotional gamut (No 1/2011)
• Olli Koskelin – a seeker of delicate timbres (No 4/2010)
• Olli Kortekangas and the beauty of polyphony (No 3/2010)
• Light and shade: Kai Nieminen talks about his music (No 2/2010)
• Veljo Tormis – unique in many ways (No 1/2010)
• Mikko Heiniö – running and composing (No 4/2009)
• Seven questions for Erkki-Sven Tüür (No 3/2009)
• Jyrki Linjama – a short self-assessment (No 2/2009)
• Kalevi Aho: the man behind the music (No 1/2009)
• Always an element of hope in Nordgren’s works (No 3/2008)
• Unexpected turns and success stories (Hakola) (No 2/2008)
• Inquisitive visionary composes a full-length opera (Puumala) (No 1/2008)
• Tapio Tuomela, a musical triathlonist who concentrates on composing (No 22/2007)
• Seven questions for Einojuhani Rautavaara (No 22/2007)
• Juhani Nuorvala aims at a physical element in music (No 21/2007)
• Lars Karlsson – from Romantic Modernism to Modern Romanticism (No 21/2007)
• Harri Vuori, colour-painter and symphonist (No 20/2006)
• Seven questions for Pehr Henrik Nordgren (No 20/2006)
• Mikko Heiniö – The Hour of the Serpent strikes in the autumn (No 19/2006)
• Kimmo Hakola and his box of magic tricks (No 19/2006)
• Queen of the woodwinds in fine fettle (No 18/2005)
• Contrabassoon into the solo spotlight (No 18/2005)
• Colourstrings method continues to inspire (No 18/2005)
• Connoisseur of the human voice (Olli Kortekangas) (No 17/2005)
• Superb musicianship at the core of Yagling’s music (No 17/2005)
• Back to the future – the modern world of Melartin’s songs (No 16/2004)
• Estonian Calendar Songs and Nature Pictures: two major works by Veljo Tormis (No 16/2004)
• Paavo Heininen – a complex, timeless modernist (No 15/2004)
• Susanna Mälkki: interpreting Puumala (No 15/2004)
• Cultures meet in the music of Herman Rechberger (No 14/2003)
• Humanism as symphonic fuel – Kalevi Aho’s music reaches out into new territories (No 13/2003)
• Erkki Salmenhaara in memoriam (No 12/2002)
• Tommi Kärkkäinen – There’s more to life than composing (No 12/2002)
• Some reflections on a symmetrical year (No 12/2002)
• Solo songs by Finnish composers (No 11/2002)
• Kimmo Hakola, music dramatist par excellence (No 11/2002)
• The voice of experience on The Last Temptations (Joonas Kokkonen) (No 10/2001)
• Erik Bergman – surrounded by magical sounds (No 10/2001)
• Uuno Klami: The view from the podium (No 9/2001)
• Veli-Matti Puumala’s music – an avalanche of sound (No 9/2001)
• Usko Meriläinen, a steady reformer (No 8/2000)
• Olli Kortekangas – a vocal composer turning towards orchestral music (No 8/2000)
• Pluralism flourishes in the musical garden of Mikko Heiniö (No 7/1999)
• The Age of Dreams (Herman Rechberger, Olli Kortekangas, Kalevi Aho) (No 7/1999)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara. Avant-gardist, mystic and upholder of values (No 5/1998)
• A passion for texts – the many-faceted reality of Paavo Heininen (No 4/1998)
• The symphonic music of Lepo Sumera (No 4/1998)
• Erkki-Sven Tüür: Converging collisions (No 4/1998)
• Three choral composers, three distinctive sounds (Erik Bergman, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Veljo Tormis) (No 3/1997)
• Pehr Henrik Nordgren – transformation as a means of musical expression (No 2/1997)
• New gems – first publications of works by Jean Sibelius (No 2/1997)
• Einar Englund – a musical craftsman (No 1/1996)
• Insect Life by Kalevi Aho (No 1/1996)