Jaakko Linjama: Saara (Sarah) – Suite for violoncello & piano (PDF)
Jaakko Linjama’s (1909-1983) suite for violoncello and piano is based on the biblical narrative of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. The 3-movement work’s cello part is suitable…
Herman Rechberger: Seven Cat Songs for soprano/baritone & piano
Rechberger (1947–2022) composed this 20-minute song cycle in 2007. The songs were inspired by his “lovely hairy companions" Tosca & Carmen. There are two versions, for soprano…
Herman Rechberger: La Rota for violoncello & piano (PDF)
Rechberger described his cello-piano work (1998) as "arrestingly macabre" due to the background of the Italian title: "La Rota" comes from the Latin meaning the wheel. Find…
Toisia suomalaisia viulusävelmiä (Other Finnish Works for Violin)
This new collection includes works for violin and piano by Finnish women composers 1886-1936 edited by Mirka Malmi & Tiina Karakorpi. Included are rich and expressive pieces…
Robert Kajanus: Works for violin and piano (Urtext)
Kajanus (1856-1933) was a highly influential Finnish conductor and composer. He studied in Helsinki and Germany, established the Helsinki Orchestra Society (later the Helsinki Philharmonic) and its…
Lasse Enersen: Agua nocturna for mixed choir and violoncello
Enersen is best known for his music for film and television (The Unknown Soldier, Omerta 6/12 and Tom of Finland). Agua Nocturna won the Hymnia Waterworks composition…
Piano classics for 2 & 4 hands as downloadable editions (PDF)
These delightful piano pieces are now available as downloadable and printable PDF editions: FOR PIANO 2 HANDS: Jenny Elfving: -Berceuce for Märtha Buy now Karl Flodin: -2…
Géza Szilvay: Colourstrings Violin ABC: Books G3 & G4
The G books of the Colourstrings Violin ACB study every position of the violin in a separate volume. They offer extensive pedagogical material in order to read…
Jean Sibelius: Concert Overture for small orchestra
Concert Overture is a 12-minute work for small orchestra. Sibelius conducted the premiere performance in Turku, Finland in April 1900. The work has not been performed since…
Antti Auvinen: Post-Tarrega Stress Funk for guitar
Post-Tarrega Stress Funk (2020) is a whirlwind showcase piece for the guitar. Exceptionally demanding technically, it was composed for the guitar virtuoso Otto Tolonen, who premiered the…
Ilkka Kuusisto: Kissalan Aapelin soitteita (Aapeli of Kissala plays the clarinet) for clarinet & piano
This raucous and technically somewhat challenging suite for clarinet and piano is a musical portrait gallery of the Seven Brothers by playwright Aleksis Kivi. They all get…
Lars Karlsson: Två andliga sånger (Two spiritual songs) for soprano & organ
Often referred as the "romantic modernist", Lars Karlsson has followed his own distinctive route on the Finnish contemporary music scene. Two spiritual songs have been composed in…
Harri Wessman: Three Caprices for Konstantin Weitz for violin
The work for solo violin (1994) opens with Bach-like Vivace followed by a singing Larghetto. The final Allegro has an energetic character which on account of its…
Ilkka Kuusisto: Songs & song cycles
The vast vocal work of Ilkka Kuusisto has numerous masterpieces which we are bringing to public knowledge. Viisi laulua Helena Anhavan runoihin (Five Songs to poems by…
Timo-Juhani Kyllönen: Christmas Suite for soprano, trumpet & organ
Christmas Suite for soprano, trumpet (or piccolo trumpet or flugelhorn) and organ was commissioned by the Swedish congregation of Espoo in 1999 to celebrate the new millennium…
Seppo Pohjola: String Quartet No. 5
Seppo Pohjola composed his fifth string quartet in winter 2018. He was inspired to write it by a visit to the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam the…
Kimmo Hakola: Clarinet Concerto
The long-waited solo part with piano reduction and study score for Hakola’s Clarinet Concerto finally available! The concerto created world-wide buzz after its premiere in 2001, which…
Einar Englund: Suite from the Ballet “Sinuhe” for piano
Sinuhe is based on the best-seller book by Mika Waltari and it acts as an example of a Finnish composition founded on a non-Finnish subject handled in…
László Rossa (arr. Scheppler): Duettini for two double basses
Duettini for two double basses by László Rossa and Bérengère Scheppler brings along chamber music from the very beginning! In these 15 miniature duos the easy first…
Einar Englund: Piano Trio
Englund’s Piano Trio (1982) is sombre in mood. In the second movement, Englund’s trademark playfulness carries a hint of sarcasm and at times builds up to a…
Uuno Klami: Piano Trio in F sharp minor
Uuno Klami (1900–1961) was an acclaimed orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. This edition of chamber music composed by him between…
Einojuhani Rautavaara (arr. Rantanen): Icons for accordion
Transcription by Matti Rantanen for accordion of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s early piano composition Icons (1955) which shows great variety in the young composer’s style. 55011-707-5, 16,00 €
Kalevi Aho: Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra
Kalevi Aho’s guitar concerto (2018) is in seven movements performed without a break and each using the guitar in a different way. Duration ca. 30 minutes. Solo…
Kirmo Lintinen: Clarinet Concerto
Lintinen’s concerto (2012-13) is full of rhythmic drive. The orchestra is handled as a large chamber ensemble in which listening closely to the other players is both…
Kai Nieminen: Tombeaux for guitar
Kai Nieminen’s two guitar pieces pay homage to 20th century French compositions: Le Tombeau de Darius Milhaud (2021) draws inspiration from Milhaud’s short guitar composition Segoviana (1957)…
Joonas Kokkonen: Lintujen tuonela (The Hades of the Birds) for mezzo-soprano & piano
Piano reduction available for the first time! Originally for voice & orchestra, Kokkonen’s The Hades of the Birds consists of three songs, two shorter ones framing a…
Sami Juntunen: Gettin’ into Groove – Repertoire and etudes for piano
New bilingual edition 2021 (FIN/ENG) Getting’ into Groove is a tutor and repertoire collection for piano, exploring the African-American popular music genre, its origins and building blocks…
Sami Juntunen: Arrangements for ensembles from Gettin’ into Groove collection
Downloadable and printable PDF editions The arrangements for different ensembles of Sami Juntunen’s Getting’ into Groove collection broaden the spectacular view on the continuously changing music. Melodies,…
Joonas Kokkonen: Sub rosa – song cycle for voice & piano
These settings of poems by Eeva-Liisa Manner (Orphic Songs, 1973) is now being published for the first time. The poems draw on ancient mythology, oriental philosophy and…
Joonas Kokkonen (arr. J.Linjama): Joululauluja lapsille for SATB
The delightful carol sequence by Joonas Kokkonen now finally available as an arrangement for mixed choir made by Kokkonen’s composition student Jouko Linjama. Includes four Christmas songs…