Kai Nieminen

Kai Nieminen's Le Tombeau de Darius Milhaud (2021) for guitar draws inspiration from Milhaud's short guitar composition Segoviana (1957) and Joan Miro's series of paintings called The Dutch Interiors...

Kai Nieminen's Le Tombeau d'Albert Roussel (2020) for guitar utilises themes and harmonies from Roussel's ballet-pantomime Le Festin de l'Araignée (The Spider's Feast) op. 17 written in 1912. Roussel'...

Includes Chanson de Nuit * Chanson de Matin * Pleading * In Haven * In Moonlight * Nimrod * Speak, Music * Salut d'Amour

A progressive guide to sight-reading. Using original tunes, Harvey instills the correct sequence of developing skills necessary for efficient sight-reading.

Elegant melodic lines combined with a graceful contrapuntal technique personify Merkel compositions. These miniatures are especially useful as voluntaries. Historical notes from Bryan Hesford.

Contains works of De Cabezon - Felton - Reger - Brahms - Boellmann - Guilmant - Franck - Karg-Elert

A popular song cycle which includes three songs to texts by Emily Dickinson. 1. It's Like the Light, 2. A Little Road Not Made of Man & 3. On This Wondrous Sea.

Suite for mixed choir to texts by Hannele Huovi (in Finnish).

Kai Nieminen's Hymnos IV - Waterscapes... for solo clarinet is composed in 2016.

The Clarinet Concerto immerses the listener in the dream-like world of Nieminen's music. From the very first bars the soloist is like a snake-charmer hypnotising all around.

Nieminen's first work for orchestra, Vicoli in ombra, looks ahead to the world of his flute concerto Palomar. The orchestral writing is again limpid and airy and the music exudes a sense of serenity,...