Teemu Halmkrona: Ikimetsän lumous for piano
Kuusi pianokappaletta kertovat kromatiikalla, kimaltavilla dissonansseilla ja muunnelluilla asteikoilla maustettuja, vahvatunnelmaisia tarinoita. Monenlaisia tekniikoita hyödyntävät bagatellit sopivat musiikkiopiston perustason jälkeiseksi ohjelmistoksi ja esityskappaleiksi. Teemu Halmkrona’s The charm…
Ahti Sonninen: Works for string orchestra
Karelian Dance for violin and string orchestraVirtuoso-like La Danza Karelia for solo violin and string orchestra is published for the first time. Buy now Koska valaissee kointähtönenSonninen’s…
Mikko Heiniö: April evenings for black twins for 2 pianos
Mikko Heiniö’s April evenings for black twins (2015) is a sonata in five movements. This 15-minute virtuoso piece for pianos is inspired by evenings in the month…
Petri Keskitalo: The Tunnel at the End of the Light for tuba
The Tunnel at the End of the Light is a commission by the Lieksa Brass Festival for its International Tuba Competition in 2023. The playful work employs…
Zibuokle Martinaityte: Sielunmaisema (Soul-landscape) for cello & orchestra
This work by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė reflects the seasons of the year in four movements. The Finnish title stands for soul-landscape which for the composer is related to…
Jennah Vainio: End Credits for a movie that got discarded for string trio
The string trio End Credits (2016) is intended to play together with a video projection. Composer Jennah Vainio sees it as a portrayal of a person’s inner…
Timo-Juhani Kyllönen: Trio no. 4 for flute, clarinet & accordion
Kyllönen’s Trio no. 4 op. 38 (1994) for was commissioned by the Association of Finnish Music Schools. The 12-minute piece can also be performed with different descant…
Antti Auvinen: Karkija for bass clarinet and marimba
Karkija for bass clarinet and marimba was a commission of Duo Xylokosmos and was premiered in Austria 2007. The product includes one performance score (B4 sized loose…
Mikko Heiniö: When the Boys… Theme & Variations based on a Finnish folk song for organ
These seven variations and theme based on a Finnish folk song were composed in 2016. The folk song in question begins with the phrase "When the boys…
Mikko Raasakka: Klarinetin tutkimusmatka (PDF publication)
Klarinetti on nuorin sinfoniaorkesterin puupuhaltimista, mutta aikamme musiikissa se on ehkä eniten käytetty monipuolisuutensa ja joustavuutensa ansiosta. Klarinetin tutkimusmatka on johdatus soittimen historiaan, rakenteeseen, ominaisuuksiin ja soittoteknisiin…
Nils-Eric Fougstedt: Three miniatures for string orchestra
Nils-Eric Fougstedt’s bright and playful suite for string orchestra in three movements (1953) is perfect addition to student orchestras’ repertoire.
Tuomas Turriago: Salon latino – Three spicy pieces for trumpet and piano
Salon Latino (2017–21) has three movements: 1. Salsa y guacamole combines jazz and samba, 2. Fresas con crema is a slow Venezuelan merengue and 3. Tequila y…
Petros Paukkunen: Touched by Sacred Fire for orchestra
This sparkling orchestral piece by Finnish-Greek composer Petros Paukkunen is a continuum of ritual dance and meditation, as the composer describes it. The 12-minute piece was premiered…
Kalevi Aho: Berliner Bagatelle for wind quintet
Kalevi Aho wrote the hilarious, virtuosic and compact "Berliner Bagatelle" in winter 2018 at the request of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet as a sort of concert…
Antti Auvinen: Beneath for wind quintet
Beneath for wind quintet (2007) was commissioned by the quintet Arktinen hysteria. The work was premiered in 2007.
Helvi Leiviskä: Chamber music works
Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple…
Kai Nieminen: Il viaggio del cavaliere …(inesistente) – Concerto for violin and orchestra
The concerto for violin and orchestra was composed in 2005 for Erkki Palola. The inspiration of the "Nonexistent Knight" was found in literature (Calvino, Cervantes), in music…
Lara Poe: Musings for solo violin
A melodic fragment which hints at both folk music and the virtuosic classical violin tradition acts as a sort of structural anchor for Lara Poe’s Musings for…
Kalevi Aho: Solo XVII for clavichord
The latest addition to Aho’s sequel for solo instrument pieces: Solo XVII takes a notice to the special features of the clavichord, which is different from that…
Szilvay – Banney: Colourstrings Viola ABC: Kreutzerini
Géza Szilvay’s Kreutzerini, here adapted for viola by David Banney, consists of 42 finger exercises for perfect intonation in the first position. Kreutzerini is a supplementary material…
Géza Szilvay: Colourstrings Violin ABC: Book G5 – Sixth and seventh positions
The volume G of the popular Colourstrings violin tutors by Géza Szilvay studies every position of the violin in a separate volume. The extensive Book G5 –…
Lars Karlsson: Suite for Helena for wind quintet
Suite for Helena (Svit för Helena, 1994) for wind quintet is built on folk tunes from Åland Islands. In five movements, it takes a form from classical…
Lotta Wennäkoski: Mien for wind quintet
Mien (2014) for alto flute, English horn, clarinet, horn & bassoon is based on rippling, wavering, timbre changing effect of bisbigliando. The good-humoured piece has a swinging…
Lotta Wennäkoski: Päärme (Hem) for piano trio
Päärme (Hem) has a pulsative character, especially in the outer sections, and the idea of steady but erratically colourful stitching prompted the amusing and highly unusual word…
Alex Freeman: String Quartet No. 1
Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations….
Alex Freeman: A Wilderness of Sea for mixed choir
A Wilderness of Sea draws from four of Shakespeare’s most famous works. This 16-part and 15-minute-long piece emphasizes a common thread among those works that addresses two…
Harri Wessman: Pan and the Nymph Pitus & Towards the Night for flute and guitar
This publication includes two pieces by Harri Wessman for flute & guitar: Pan and the Nymph Pitys (1979) bears the first symptoms of Wessman’s later style, the…
Lara Poe: Triton for trumpet
The name of Lara Poe’s solo trumpet work Triton (2019) alludes both the sea god Triton and the shell named after him. The 6-minute-long piece is constructed…
Antti Auvinen: Singel Excelsis for organ
Singel excelsis is composed using the material from an earlier work for three organs. Auvinen finds fascinating the rhythmic characteristics of the organ: "Many of the vibrations…
Jyrki Linjama: Allenheiligertag cycle for string quartet / violin / viola da gamba
The material for Jyrki Linjama’s Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints’ Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The second work in…