Kalevi Aho

Kalevi Aho's Solo XVII is a real clavichord work: it handles the instrument in its own special way, which is different from that of a piano or harpsichord. Solo XVII is in two main sections. The first...

Text: Mawlana Rumi, translated into Finnish by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila. Aho's lyrical interpretation of Rumi's impressive poem (for small SSAA choir or female quartet) was composed in 2003.

Frauenchor (Kinderchor) (SSAA)

Three Songs to Texts by Mawlana Rumi by Kalevi Aho have texts in Finnish translations.

Kalevi Aho's virtuosic, perceptive portraits of four Finnish Cello Pedagogues for four violoncellos were composed between 2008 and 2013. This product consists of a full score and a set of parts.

Short piece written for contraforte and piano. Playable also on contrabassoon. The piece was written for Lewis Lipnick in 2016.

Scored for piano left hand and string quartet, Kalevi Aho's Mysterium (2019) consists of four movements performed without a break. Aho had earlier come across the sketches for what was to be the last,...

Kalevi Aho's Sateen aikaan (Rain Time), five songs for mezzo-soprano and string quartet is set to poems of a Finnish modernist Tuomas Anhava (1927-2001). The composer tells: 'Setting these poems to mu...

Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) composed ER-OS in 2015 as a wedding gift for conductor-clarinetist Osmo Vänskä and violinist Erin Keefe and named the work with the initials of their names. The virtuosic work is...

Kalevi Aho composed Quartet for flute, alto saxophone, guitar & percussion in 1982 for Cluster ensemble, which is the reason for the particular combination of instruments. The work was premiered in Am...

Kalevi Aho's Quintet for oboe and string quartet (1973) opens his prominent oeuvre for oboe. Consisting of two virtuosic movements the duration of the quintet is 30 minutes. This product includes a st...

Kalevi Aho's Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra (2018) is in seven movements performed without a break and each using the guitar in a different way. The fairly slow introduction-like movement i...

One of the most ambitious of Kalevi Aho's composition projects has been to write a concerto for each of the main instruments in the Romantic symphony orchestra. In 2011, with the Horn Concerto (the ei...

Kalevi Aho's Double concerto for two bassoons and orchestra (2016) was premiered in Warsaw, Poland with Bram van Sambeek and Leszek Wachnik as soloists. This product is the solo part (one copy, includ...

Kalevi Aho's Solo XV for marimba and three triangles (2018) proceeds to a motor-like beat in music dominated by semiquavers momentarily interrupted by eight short triangle entries. The triangle parts...

Molto appassionato, think of Argentina! Kalevi Aho wrote Tango 60 for string quartet (2012) in order to celebrate his sister's 60th birthday.

Kalevi Aho composed a shimmering six-minute journey for string quartet under the title Sumussa ("In the fog", 2023). It was premiered by Tempera Quartet at Kaustinen Chamber Music Week in January 2024...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) second string quartet dates from February 1970, when he was in his second year as a student of Eino-Juhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy. Its premiere in the debut concert...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) String quartet no. 3 (1971) comprises eight short sections played in a single movement without pause and is strictly linear in character. The work begins, in all simplicity, wit...