Kalevi Aho: La Violina for four violins
La Violina for 4 violins introduces technics used in modern music and it is challenging yet not overly difficult for young musicians who are about to start…
Sulho Ranta: Works for voice & piano (PDF)
Sulho Ranta (1901–1960) had a great impact on the musical scene in Finland in the dawn of Modernism. His atonal and modern idiom transformed into more traditional…
Jean Sibelius: Suite for Violin op. 117
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO! In 1929 Sibelius sent some small pieces to the New York publisher Carl Fischer for consideration. Included among…
Uuno Klami: Valses lentes et amoureuses for string orchestra and piano
Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Valses lentes et amoureuses consists of two waltzes…
Uuno Klami: Souvenir for violin and string ensemble
Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Souvenir for solo violin and string ensemble dates…
Uuno Klami: Berceuse & Laulelma for violin and piano
Uuno Klami (1900–1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Berceuse for violin and piano is composer’s own…
Victoria Yagling: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Victoria Yagling (1946−2011) made her career as a cellist which served as an excellent accompaniment to composing which she began at an early age. In her extensive…
Victoria Yagling: Autumn Diary for piano
Victoria Yagling’s main works are written for cello, her own instrument. However, she was also a skillful pianist being able to master works such as Chopin’s Etudes…
Jennah Vainio: Queen Bee for tuba
Queen Bee is a solo work for bass tuba or contrabass tuba. The piece starts with a melodic phrase, which is followed by and intersected with, a…
Satu Simola: Hiiri – satu orkesterille ja kertojalle : The Mouse – a story for orchestra and narrator
Hiiri on tarina hiirestä, joka asuu yksin rakentamassaan koneessa. Koneen sisällä hiiri kuitenkin tuntee yksinäisyyttä. Hiiri on sävelletty lasten ja nuorten konserttikäyntiä varten. Siinä on tarina, jota…
Juhani Nuorvala: Variationes ex “Bene quondam” for string orchestra
Juhani Nuorvala’s (b. 1961) Variationes ex ”Bene quondam” for string orchestra was commissioned by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in 2017. Collaboration with the musicians led to experiments…
Juhani Nuorvala: Boost for cello and analogue synthesizer
Nuorvala has been described as an “electro-acoustic urban minimalist”, he seeks inspiration from widely varied sources. With the enthusiasm of an explorer, he has delved into microtonality,…
Sigurd Snåre: Five Songs to texts by Edith Södergran for voice & piano (PDF)
Sigurd Snåre (1897–1996) worked especially among the Finnish-Swedish choirs as a conductor and composer. His song suite in five parts is set to poems by Edith Södergran…
Joonas Kokkonen: Viimeiset kiusaukset / The Last Temptations (piano reduction)
The corrected and updated edition of the piano reduction of the opera Viimeiset kiusaukset (1973–75) is made by Pekka Asikainen (who has worked with it as a…
Aarre Merikanto: Sestetto per archi (String Sextet)
Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958) composed his string sextet in 1932 for the competition of Library of Congress, Washington. The work was however not accepted because it was sent…
Alex Freeman: I Feel the Same Way (Three songs of Lilian Moore) for children’s choir
These three songs (2015) capture little moments of childhood wonder. Lilian Moore (1909–2004) was a poet and editor who helped makíng children’s books more affordable and worked…
Kalevi Aho: Violin Concerto No. 2
Kalevi Aho composed the second violin concerto in 2015 for the Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä. The 32-minute concerto is a large-scale virtuoso work dominated by the soloist…
Tauno Pylkkänen: Works for voice & piano (PDF)
Tauno Pylkkänen (1918–1980) was a prolific opera composer, his breakthrough being the opera Mare and his son (1943). Among the 10 operas he wrote orchestral music and…
Erkki Melartin: Symphony No. 3 F major op. 40
The first five symphonies by Erkki Melartin (1875–1937) represent the Finnish National Romantic music heritage based on Austo-German orchestral tradition. Melartin considered the Symphony No. 3 as…
Kai Nieminen: Palomar – Concerto for Flute & Orchestra
The music of Kai Nieminen does not conform to any “isms”. He remarks: “I feel like I am a painter in music, who having seen or experienced…
Kalevi Aho: Halla (Frost) for violin & piano
Halla (1992) was made as the compulsory piece for a Nordic violin and piano duo competition in Vaasa 1992. For some reason the competition was however cancelled…
Kalevi Aho: Lied for oboe & piano
Lied (2017) was composed as an 80th-birthday gift for Jouko Teikari, former solo oboist in the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The 5,5-minute piece highlights the singing aspect…
P. J. Hannikainen: Kevätlaulu for mixed choir (PDF)
Pekka Juhani Hannikainen (1854–1924) oli merkittävän musiikkisuvun päämies ja säveltäjänä muutamaa teoriatuntia lukuun ottamatta itseoppinut. Hän sävelsi elinaikanaan yli kaksisataa laulua kuorotoiminnan innoittamana, suurimman osan sekakuorolle. Kansallisen…
Väinö Hannikainen: Works for voice & piano (PDF)
Väinö Hannikainen (1900–1960) was one of the five sons of composer P.J. Hannikainen. He studied in Helsinki, Berlin and Paris and wrote a ballet, a chamber opera,…
Ilmari Hannikainen: Works for voice & piano (PDF)
Ilmari Hannikainen (1892–1955) was the most prominent Finnish concert pianist during the first decades of the 1900s. He also was one of the country’s most established composers.Miksi…
Leevi Madetoja: Miniatures op. 21 & Legend op. 34/3 for guitar
Six delightful miniatures from Leevi Madetoja (1887–1947, one of the most significant Finnish contemporaries of Sibelius) are now available as new guitar arrangements by Lauri Manninen. The…
Mikko Heiniö: Sonata for guitar
Mikko Heiniö composed his Sonata for Guitar (2019) with the instrument on his lap. The inspiring cooperation with the guitarist Patrik Kleemola can be heard throughout the…
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Symphony No. 1
Rautavaara’s First Symphony was written in 1955 in the United States. The composer revised the symphony first in 1988 and second time in 2003 when the movement…
Aulis Sallinen: Two Mythical Scenes Op. 1 for orchestra
Two Mythical Scenes for orchestra was completed in 1956 when Sallinen was Aarre Merikanto’s composition student. The work received its first performance only after a good deal…
Aulis Sallinen: Variations for cello & orchestra Op. 5
Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935) was still seeking to establish a style of his own in his early instrumental works. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in the…