Alex Freeman: Calle sin nombre for mixed choir
The texts of Alex Freeman’s Calle sin nombre (2019) are drawn from quotations of families seeking asylum who are victims of the policies of family separation aggressively…
Minna von Knorring: Works for voice & piano (PDF)
Minna von Knorring (1846–1918) was a fascinating character in the musical scene of Helsinki. She had no formal music education but she composed and published several songs…
Helvi Leiviskä: Works for voice & piano (PDF)
Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982) is the first distinct Finnish female composer who has written large-scale orchestral works but also several songs such as these.Nouse, ole kirkas 55016-459-8, €…
Helvi Leiviskä: Suite antique op. 3 for piano
A suite of prelude and three baroque style dances, written in 1928 by Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982), the first distinct Finnish female composer. 55011-607-8, € 12,50
Helvi Leiviskä: Small Piano Pieces for Children
Six small charming piano compositions for children written in 1929 by Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982), the first distinct Finnish female composer. 55011-606-1, € 9,90
Ann-Elise Hannikainen: Two Pieces for piano
Ann-Elise Hannikainen (1946–2012), the great-granddaughter of P.J. Hannikainen, lived a cosmopolitan life as her father was working as diplomat. She studied piano playing in Warsaw and composing…
Ann-Elise Hannikainen: Cháchara for flute & piano
Ann-Elise Hannikainen (1946–2012), the great-granddaughter of P.J. Hannikainen, lived a cosmopolitan life as her father was working as diplomat. She studied piano playing in Warsaw and composing…
Ida Moberg: Stillhet (Silence) for string orchestra
Ida Moberg (1859–1947) was the first widely educated Finnish female composer. Born in Helsinki, she grew up in a musical family and studied singing and piano at…
Minna von Knorring: Nocturne for violin & piano
Minna von Knorring (1846-1918) was a fascinating character in the musical scene of Helsinki. She had no formal music education but nevertheless she composed and published several…
Kalevi Aho: Flute Concerto (solo part & piano reduction)
Kalevi Aho’s Flute Concerto (2002) was initially inspired by the magnificent, enigmatic poetry of the Swede Tomas Tranströmer, but the vocal ideas nevertheless adapted themselves to the…
Kalevi Aho: Clarinet Concerto (solo part & piano reduction)
Kalevi Aho’s Clarinet concerto (2005) has five movements played without pause. It was premiered in London by Martin Fröst in 2006 and is one of the best…
Kai Nieminen: Fragmental Reflections (on a Finnish Theme) for guitar
Kai Nieminen’s Fragmental Reflections (2018) draws on the melancholy mood of the Finnish folk song "Tein minä pillin pajupuusta" (I made a willow whistle), familiar to most…
Matthew Whittall: Love Is Little for mixed choir
Matthew Whittall’s (b. 1975) Love is Little (2009) is a modern motet which uses a Shaker hymn as cantus firmus. The original melody is gradually slowed down,…
Heikki Sarmanto: Northern Dreams (Rêves du Nord) for various solo instrument & piano
A pioneer of Finnish modern jazz, Heikki Sarmanto (1939–) is renowned for his renderings of jazz numbers. No wonder, therefore, that broken chords and familiar keys resonate…
Pehr Henrik Nordgren: Come da lontano for guitar
Dedicated to and premiered by Petri Kumela, Pehr Henrik Nordgren’s (1944–2008) Come da lontano for guitar (2003) carries ideas from Nordgren’s previous work Amor – desesperada op…
Tuomas Turriago: Sonata for Guitar solo
Tuomas Turriago’s Sonata for Guitar solo (2019, rev. 2020) reflects the main source of anguish of the 21st century: according to the composer things are growing so…
Kalevi Aho: String Quartet No. 1
Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) was only 18 years old in 1967 when he completed his String quartet No. 1 in G minor. Nonetheless it was already the…
Jyrki Linjama: Five Songs “himmeä, kirkas, himmeä…” for baritone & piano
Jyrki Linjama’s (b. 1962) poetic music finds its counterpart in the poems of a Finnish modernist Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995). The 23-minute song cycle ”himmeä, kirkas, himmeä…” was…
Alex Freeman: Cathedral of Spring for mixed choir
Alex Freeman’s (b. 1972) Cathedral of Spring (2019) was commissioned by Somnium Ensemble. The piece is in four movements and is set to poems by e.e. cummings…
Olli Kortekangas: Akvarelli for mixed choir
Akvarelli (Watercolour, 1994) for mixed choir by Olli Kortekangas is composed to a poem by Matsuo Bashō, the greatest master of haiku in the 17th century. The…
Lars Karlsson: Variations on a psalm “Eja mitt hjärta” for organ
These beautiful variations on the hymn "Eja mitt hjärta" (Swedish variation of a German folk song from 1589) were composed in 1976 and dedicated to Finnish composer…
Lars Karlsson: Toccata, variations and fuga for organ
based on the Swedish hymn "Den blomstertid nu kommer"Probably of folk song origin, this Swedish hymn was first time published in the 1695 Swedish Hymnal. The Finnish…
Hanna Elomaa & Päivi Kantanen: Yhdessä pianolla
Uutta, innostavaa nuottimateriaalia pikku pianistien ryhmäopetukseen. Yhdessä pianolla sisältää neli- ja kuusikätisiä kappaleita alkeet hallitseville oppilaille sekä monipuolista lisämateriaalia, joka johtaa hauskalla tavalla vapaan säestyksen, improvisoinnin ja…
Jean Sibelius: Cassazione op. 6: transcription for wind band by Robert J. Ambrose
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) made his first sketches for material that would later find its way into Cassazione at the end of the 1890s; there are already hints…
Paavo Heininen: Divertimento for chamber ensemble
Chamber music is probably the dearest musical form to the Finnish modernism’s grand old man Paavo Heininen (b. 1938). The 12-minute Divertimento was composed in the beginning…
Kirmo Lintinen: Myrsky vesilasissa (Storm in a Teacup) for flute, bassoon & piano
The air is heavy with flashy comments, when the flute, the bassoon and the piano start their debate in “Storm in a Teacup” (2014) by Kirmo Lintinen…
Olli Kortekangas: Partita for organ
Olli Kortekangas (b. 1955) was struggling when looking for a suitable chorale or theme after a commission from Tomi Satomaa to compose a variation work for organ…
Lauri Kilpiö: Muistijälkiä ja impressioita (Memories and Impressions) for piano
Lauri Kilpiö’s Memories and Impressions is a 14-movement suite for solo piano of 24 minutes. It was commissioned by the Music School of St. Michel. The duration…
Olli Kortekangas: Luotujen virsi, Missa brevis for descant chorus and piano
A missa brevis for descant choir and piano (organ ad lib.) by Olli Kortekangas gets a Finnish colour in Laudamus, the text of which "Luotujen virsi" by…
Yrjö Hjelt: Uusia eteläpohjalaisia kansanlauluja for voice & piano
(Six Ostrobothnian folk songs)During his folklore gathering trips to South Ostrobothnia in the west coast of Finland in 1907, Toivo Kuula wrote down a total of 362…