Paavo Korpijaakko: Oskari Juliinin legenda – uusia eteläpohjalaisia kansanlauluja for voice & piano
(The Legend of Oskari Juliini – New Ostrobothnian Folk Songs)The Ostrobothnian folk songs collected by Toivo Kuula offer an interesting look at the Finnish folk music, especially…
Armas Järnefelt: Festouverture D major
Armas Järnefelt (1869–1958) composed his Festouverture (Festive Overture) for the official opening of the Finnish National Theatre on 9 April 1902. This was a great event in…
Uuno Klami: Sonata in C minor for violin & piano
Uuno Klami probably began composing the C minor Sonata as early as May 1920. He completed two movements but only sketched the finale. The reason why he…
Einar Englund: Serenata for string orchestra
Einar Englund’s (1916–99) musical language is based on sweeping terms and great symphonic lines. As a neo-classicist his music is based on tonality and includes long, compact…
Lars Karlsson: Sju sånger (Seven Songs) to texts by Pär Lagerkvist
Lars Karlsson (b. 1952) has followed his own distinctive route on the Finnish contemporary music scene as a ”romantic modernist”. The song cycle (2010–12) for baritone and…
Paavo Heininen: DIA per orchestra
Premiered in September 1979, DIA op. 36, with its wedge form "refers to the idea of an arrow pointing through the multidimensional musical space of the piece…
Harri Wessman: Concertino No. 2 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
A work commissioned by a Finnish publishing company Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet for the inauguration of their new office building in 1987. The 10 minutes duration and small orchestra…
Heino Kaski: Piano Pieces
This edition includes 32 of the numerous piano pieces by Finnish composer Heino Kaski (1885–1957). Many of them are everlasting favourites among Finnish pianists, such as Yö…
Helena Sinisalo: Trumpet ABC – Trumpetti-ABC
The Trumpet ABC offers a vast selection of familiar children’s and folk songs for young trumpet players. The coloured notes and the movable Do and La clefs…
Kirmo Lintinen: Palindromi – Palindrome for piano
Kirmo Lintinen has chosen a predetermined form for this piece: perfectly mirrored symmetry! The composer is not interested in hidden structures and working with minutiae, but rather…
Esa Pietilä: Uirapuru for male choir & tenor saxophone
The atmosphere of Uirapuru by Esa Pietilä for saxophone and male choir takes you to the Amazonian jungle and the home of the musician wren, also known…
Urmas Sisask: Kui armsast jõulupuu nüüd hiilgab – How Sweetly Shines the Christmas Tree for mixed choir
This delightful Estonian Christmas carol captures the joyful moments of Christmas with children gathering around the Christmas tree. 55011-544-6, € 3,30
Urmas Sisask: Kümme kildu – Ten Fragments for mixed choir
Ten crispy texts by Hando Runnel depict the problems of every-day life. 55011-545-3, € 8,90
Urmas Sisask: Kolm laulu segakoorile – Three Songs for mixed choir
These songs for mixed choir are set to poems of three Estonian lyricists, Hando Runnel, Henrik Visnapuu and Marie Under. 55011-543-9, € 4,90
Matthew Whittall: Bright Ferment – String Quartet No. 2
The second string quartet by Matthew Whittall saw daylight only some 20 years after his first one. Bright Ferment was commissioned for the 2019 Banff International String…
Tiina Myllärinen: Three Songs for female voice, guitar and cello
Tiina Myllärinen (b. 1979) has freely combined texts of three Finnish poets, Kari Aronpuro, Ilpo Tiihonen and Leif Färding to create a three-movement set for female voice,…
Kalevi Aho: Solo XVI (Ballade) for harp
Kalevi Aho’s popular series of Solo pieces for different instruments gets a new piece for harp. Solo XVI (Ballade) was premiered in June 2019 by Anneleen Lenaerts…
Sami Juntunen: Maailman ympäri 30 biisissä / Around the World in 30 pit-stops for piano
This collection of practice pieces is designed to cast you into a whirl-pool of world music. The rhythms, harmonies and melodies of different cultural and geographical regions…
Kalevi Aho: Solo XIV for clarinet
Kalevi Aho’s popular series of Solo pieces for different instruments gets a new piece for clarinet. Composed in 2018 it was premiered in October 2019 by Simon…
Roope Mäenpää: Buoyancy for wind band
A combination of sound and aerodynamics, an idea behind the title Buoyancy is the lift off to flight, getting up from the ground and at the end…
Kirmo Lintinen: Patikka for violin, violoncello and piano
Patikka ("Trek") for piano trio (2011) is a perfect chamber music piece for young players. The idiomatic writing for each instrument and clear, memorable characters create a…
Kirmo Lintinen: Buster! Caprice for clarinet and piano
Instrumentally acrobatic Buster! (2002-2003, rev. 2007) has a hint of ragtime, sings romantically and makes fast changes in articulations, dynamics and registers almost as they were musical…
Harri Vuori: Chiroptera for guitar
Chiroptera (2017) for guitar embraces the instrument with several compositional solutions born from the attributes of the guitar. The 12-minute work has three movements and a complex…
Working Zone: Scale and Interval Exercises for tuba
(and other bass clef instruments) Working Zone is a new kind of guide for warming up and working the intervals for low brass and all bass clef…
Jean Sibelius: Works for String Orchestra, New Urtext editions
The most beloved pieces for string orchestra are now available in the Helsinki Sibelius Edition series as Urtext editions. Andante festivo JS34bScore 55011-399-2, € 12,10 Buy nowRakastava…
Olli Koskelin: X’seven for violoncello
X’seven (2010/18) is the final piece of a solo cello suite consisting of seven compositions which can be performed individually or detached with another X-composition. The works…
Kirmo Lintinen: Rondo burlesque for bassoon and piano
The qualitative elements of bars with their upbeats, accents and GPs create a refined musical rhetoric in this piece for bassoon and piano. The roguish poetic metres…
Tuomas Turriago: Tanguerengue for trumpet and piano
Venezuelan trumpet virtuoso Pacho Flores asked Tuomas Turriago to write a piece for a recital in April 2019. The composer tells: "My half-Colombian soul fell in love…
Erkki Melartin: Little Quartet for Four Saxes, arr. Eskola
The Little Quartet for Four Horns op. 185 by Erkki Melartin was commissioned by the progenitor of Finnish horn playing, Holger Fransman (1909-1997). The transcription for four…
Kai Nieminen: Piano Trios
Three piano trios were commissioned by Trio LaRue and composed in 2004-2016.In der Winterzeit (inspired by Paul Klee’s painting Winterwinde) was composed in 2004 and revised in…