Violin Blend 2024 – 18 new Finnish violin duos
Violin Blend 2024 (Viulukimara 2024) presents 18 pieces for two violins by eight Finnish composers, all written between 2014 and 2024. The works are suitable for a…
Piano Blend 2010 – 24 piano works by Finnish contemporary composers (Pianokimara 2010)
Piano Blend 2010 consists of 24 piano compositions by 12 contemporary Finnish composers, written between 1987 and 2010. Most of the pieces were composed in the 21st…
Kalevi Aho: Concerto for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra
Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) wrote his concerto for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra in 2014–15 at the request of the saxophonist Anders Paulsson. The concerto is cast…
Ilkka Kuusisto: Eläimellisiä lauluja for voice & piano
Ilkka Kuusiston (1933-2025) laulusarja Eläimellisiä lauluja (1999) ilakoi Tapsa Rantasen absurdeilla, naulan kantaan osuvilla teksteillä. Lauluista kaksi (Kameleontti ja Olisipa varaanilla baari) voidaan esittää kahden laulajan vuoropuheluna…
Ralf Gothóni: Viisi suomalaista kansanlaulua (5 Finnish folk songs) for voice & piano
Five well-known Finnish folk songs, brilliantly arranged by pianist-composer Ralf Gothóni, are here gathered under one cover! The arrangements gained wider public attention through the 1996 recording…
Carita Holmström: Måla himlen (Taivaan maalari) for voice & piano
Carita Holmström’s (b. 1954) song cycle Måla himlen (Taivaan maalari, 2008) consists of 13 songs set to poems by Bo Carpelan. Singable Finnish translations by Kaarina Helakisa…
Works for guitar
With the acquisition of Uusinta Publishing catalogue, Fennica Gehrman is republishing these guitar works. J.S. Bach (arr. Hackman): Concerto in A minor (BWV 1041) Buy now Sampsa…
Lotta Wennäkoski: Solo works and chamber music
Lotta Wennäkoski (b. 1970) studied at the Budapest Conservatory as well as at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and completed her studies in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen…
Markus Fagerudd: Solo works and chamber music
Markus Fagerudd (b. 1961) has a broad output as a composer, from solo pieces and film music to big orchestra works. He is especially well-known for his…
Jennah Vainio: Urhon ihmeelliset seikkailut for guitar
The Wondrous Adventures of Rocky for guitar (2019) by Jennah Vainio consists of 15 pieces that combine classical guitar technique with heavy metal and rock aesthetics. There…
Mikko Sidoroff: Träumen for mixed choir
The poems of Mikko Sidoroff’s four-movement Träumen for mixed choir (2025) have been selected from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Träumen (Traumgekrönt, 1896), in which the master poet weaves…
Matthew Whittall: ad puram annihilationem meam… Ritual for mixed choir and percussion
Matthew Whittall’s ad puram annihilationem meam (“to the purest annihilation of myself”, 2008) for mixed choir juxtaposes facets of Christian liturgy, like plainchant, with a more spacious…
Outi Tarkiainen: Solo works and chamber music
Outi Tarkiainen (born 1985) is one of the new generation of composers whose work bears witness to the world around it and whose music engages audiences while…
Lasse Eerola: Pedagogical collections for wind instruments
The Finnish composer and pedagogue Lasse Eerola (1945–2000) studied clarinet, theory of music and solfege at the Sibelius Academy as well as composition with Jouko Tolonen and…
Pessi Levanto (ed. Päivi Severeide): Dreams and Echoes – 12 songs for harp
When one of the most prominent film composers in Finland collaborates with an insightful artist and a distinguished pedagogue, the result is a dazzling collection of new…
Kalevi Aho: Double concerto for flute, harp and orchestra
Almost every time the orchestra has a double concerto for flute and harp on its program, it plays a work from Mozart’s early years. Flutist Marina Piccinini…
Kalevi Aho: Mearra – Chamber concerto for harp and strings
In July and August 2016 Kalevi Aho worked for two and a half weeks in the former house of the Sámi artist Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943–2001) in Lássagámmi…
Matei Gheorghiu: War Nocturne for violin, violoncello and piano
Matei Gheorghiu’s (b. 1984) War Nocturne for violin, violoncello and piano was comissioned by the Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Chamber Music Competition 2026. In this 6-minute work the…
Mikko Heiniö: Allora for violoncello
Mikko Heiniö’s Allora for violoncello solo (114./2022) was commissioned and premiered by Erkki Lahesmaa. The 10-minute work contains elements from the composition (1864) by the Ukrainian priest…
Lasse Eerola: Etudes for clarinet
Lasse Eerola’s etude collections for clarinet provide an essential and inspiring foundation for learning. 25 studies for clarinet offers a musically enjoyable way for clarinet students to…
Kai Nieminen: Hathor for guitar
Kai Nieminen’s enigmatic guitar miniature is like a sounding statue of Hathor, the ancient Egyptian goddess of joy, dance, music, and love. The slowly, dignified descending decorative…
Kaija Saariaho: Du gick, flög for voice & cello or piano
As a composition student under Paavo Heininen’s mentorship, Kaija Saariaho (1952-2003) was fascinated by poetry that had an experimental and playful relationship to verbal expression, a lot…
Ralf Gothóni: Viisi suomalaista kansanlaulua / Five Finnish Folk Songs for voice and piano
Five well-known Finnish folk songs, brilliantly arranged by pianist-composer Ralf Gothóni, are here gathered under one cover! The arrangements gained wider public attention through the 1996 recording…
Timo-Juhani Kyllönen: Three arias from monologue opera Ilona irti for soprano & piano
Novelist Leena Lehtolainen was invited to write the libretto of Timo-Juhani Kyllönen’s monologue opera Ilona irti (Release Joy, 2019). The story deals with the unequal status of…
Timo-Juhani Kyllönen: Eino Leino -sarja sekakuorolle (Suite for mixed choir)
Timo-Juhani Kyllönen made three settings to poems by Eino Leino (1878-1926) for mixed choir: Hyvyys; Erotessa & Kuu kalpea kulkevi kulkuaan. The cycle was premiered by Tapiola…
Lasten lied! 4 – Runometsässä
Vuonna 2024 järjestettyyn L.I.E.D. -sävellyskilpailuun osallistui 86 säveltäjää Suomesta ja ympäri maailmaa. Kilpailun myötä syntyi uutta lapsille ja nuorille tarkoitettua liedmusiikkia 105 teoksen ja 247 yksittäisen liedin…
Paavo Heininen: Jouluconcertino for voice & piano
Vocal music was perhaps the closest to Paavo Heininen’s (1938-2022) heart because of his passion for texts: the marriage of word and music was to him something…
New works for mixed choir
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…
Works for solo violoncello
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…
New works for solo trombone
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…