Newsletters
- 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)
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