Kalevi Aho: Neljä joululaulua (Four Christmas Songs)The extremely hardworking composer Kalevi Aho has written almost nothing to choirs in recent years. The more interesting are these new Christmas songs for mixed choir that Aho wrote in summer 2025. The five songs will receive their premiere with the Chamber choir Kaamos conducted by Visa Yrjölä on…
Lauri Mäntysaari: KimaraKimara (cluster [of colors], 2025) is a collection of short, color-inspired pieces for cello. They can be performed in any order, individually or scattered throughout a concert program – anything goes! Movements are Kohiseva valkoinen (Noisy White), Sähkönsininen (Electric Blue) and Keväänvihreä (Spring Green). The work was commissioned by the Turku Music Society…
Kai Nieminen: SigmaSigma for solo trombone was written in 1998. Composer Kai Nieminen tells that inspiration behind the name is from the way trombone’s slide moves during playing. The musical material is related to orchestral work ”Le città invisibili” (Invisible Cities, 1998) by Nieminen. The work was written for trombone player Matti ”Korkki” Korhonen. Buy…
Downloadable and printable PDF product. Einar Englund wrote this violin concerto in 1981. The work is in three movements: Allegro moderato, Moderato and Finale: Allegro molto. The duration is 28 minutes. Buy now
Einar Englund won the first prize in the composition competition organized by the Helsinki Culture Foundation with his Concerto no. 1 for piano and orchestra (1955). This product is the reduction for two pianos made by the composer, also available as printable PDF product. The duration of the work is about 23 minutes. Buy now
Kalevi Aho composed his 5th string quartet in autumn 2021 as a commission from the Kamus Quartet. It is dedicated to the memory of the German-Austrian musicologist Elke Albrecht, who died on 29.9.2021 at the age of only 40. Albrecht was one of the leading experts on Finnish opera; her doctoral thesis was about operas…
Lars Karlsson’s String quartet No. 1 was composed in 1997 and revised in 2025. The first performance of the revised version was played by Tempera Quartet in October 2025. Buy now
Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008) composed string quintet op. 110 in 2000. The work is scored for two violins, viola and two cellos. In his 4th and 5th symphonies (1997 and 1998) Nordgren had been particularly fascinated by the world of Ingrian shepherd melodies and laments, which are characterized by the continuous magical repetition of simple…
Aulis Sallinen’s one-movement fourth string quartet (1971) has a subtitle Quiet Songs (Hiljaisia lauluja). In contrast to the splintered plurality of the third quartet, the fourth is a homogenous minor-key landscape that never rises above mezzoforte. The subdued resignation, somehow recalling Shostakovich, is interrupted only by a few fleeting faster sections. Now also available as…
The score of Lotta Wennäkoski’s Glimt, skymt (Swedish for “Glimpse, glance”) for four flutes opens with a citation from Tua Forsström: “And the water is sparkling and everything is sparkling and happening for the first time again”. Duration 9 minutes. Buy now
