Einojuhani Rautavara

The Hampstead and Highgate Festival in London performed several of Rautavaara's orchestral and chamber works in summer 1999. To include a premiere in the programme, festival director Barry Milligan co...

Begun in April 1970, the unfinished manuscript of this piece was lost for many years. On its accidental rediscovery the composer decided to complete the work, which he did in April 2006. The piece is...

All of these landscapes are full of memories and atmospheres, visual as well as auditive views - for me they are musical life-themes. The opportunity to develop these themes arose when the deeply admi...

This edition (reduction for 2 pianos) for Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No. 3 Gift of Dreams is now available for the first time. The work was composed for Vladimir Ashkenazy and it is a masterpiece of...

As if in homage to choral history, Rautavaara's Credo from 1972 departs from chant-like beginnings, passing through homophony and polyphony towards a modern synthesis of all its elements. It is equall...