Roope Mäenpää’s exciting works for children
Composer Roope Mäenpää HInsect Symphony (Hyönteissinfonia) is a charming piece for two narrators and orchestra, describing with music Hipinäaasi, apinahiisi
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Esa Pietilä: The Wind Wants for wind quintet
Esa Pietilä’s The Wind Wants examines various kinds of wind: "A balmy summer breeze suddenly gives way to an autumn gale that blows with all its might, whips round corners, forms flurries and howls in the treetops", describes the composer. The 16-minute work includes improvisational passages.
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Esa Pietilä: Fata morgana for harpsichord
The title Fata morgana (2019) refers to a special weather condition which creates illusory effect of mirage-like fairy castle-like monuments in the horizon of the sea. The 6-minute piece brings forth the frightening bass sonority on double manual, full size harpsichord and the brightness on the treble and makes a dialogue out of them.
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Olli Kortekangas: Missa silvestris for mezzo-soprano, male choir and organ
The "Mass of the Forest" follows the catholic mass with a pantheistic approach. The 30-minute long mass is composed to a Swedish text by Göran Stenius (1909-2000), a Finnish poet, writer and diplomat.
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Roope Mäenpää: Lähi for violin and clarinet
Lähi (Finnish for ”near”, ”close by”) for violin and clarinet was composed in a situation when the COVID-19 pandemic had shut down most of the society in the spring 2020. Lähi is a diary-entry like vignette, a picture of a moment, of the fear and anxiety caused by the sudden situation – but also a…
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Roope Mäenpää: Bloom for tuba / euphonium & PDF editions for low brass
The impressionistically flowing 6-minute Bloom (2000) flourishes in three versions: euphonium & piano, tuba & piano and solo euphonium, all included in the package. Buy nowErkki-Sven Tüür: Dick & Toff in Wonderland (tuba & flute) Buy now
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Alex Freeman: Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem for mixed choir
Freeman’s Requiem (2018) was commissioned by the Helsinki Chamber Choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Finnish civil war in 1918. Structured around the Latin liturgy of the mass for the dead, the work has a duration of more than an hour and incorporates poems in Finnish, Swedish and English, reflecting both the specific…
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Antti Auvinen: Delfiinimeditaatio for mixed choir
Delfiinimeditaatio (A Dolphin Meditation) is set to Harry Salmenniemi’s short story (in Finnish). Salmenniemi’s prose gets a modern treatment by Auvinen: repetitions of words and syllables, cutting, onomatopoetism, hissing and sprechgesang methods are employed. Buy now
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Mixed, Descant & Male choir works (PDF)
These choir classics from Fazer’s and Westerlund’s collections now available as downloadable PDF editions MIXED CHOIR:J.S. Bach: Unser Leben ist ein Schatten (Elo täällä on vain varjo, SSATTB-ATB) Buy nowTaneli Kuusisto: Oi Herrani, Jeesukseni (O Jesus Krist, mitt hopp förvisst, SSAATB) Buy now DESCANT CHOIR:Väinö Pesola: Talvi on (SSAA) Buy now
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Jyrki Linjama: Sonata da chiesa I for piano
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 adherence to form for a long time occupied an important role in the liturgy (as distinct from the sonata da camera). Duration 14 minutes.
