Fennica Gehrman

Tunes by many classical composers carefully arranged in order of difficulty within three sections: below the break, above the break and across the break. Practice at all levels in tone production, fin...

Ten movements provide simple and attractive concert pieces for the developing violinist with this lighthearted tour around the farmyard -- from Amazing Grazing to the Sheep Shearer's Shanty! Here's a...

The twelve movements in this volume provide simple and attractive concert pieces for the developing flautist. In a light-hearted 'tour around the sea,' Colin Cowles has created a useful yet amusing su...

Finnish conductor and composer Nils-Eric Fougstedt composed some of the warmest and most enchanting choral songs in the Swedish language. His harmonic language and choice of texts, from nature and the...

Finnish conductor and composer Nils-Eric Fougstedt composed some of the warmest and most enchanting choral songs in the Swedish language. His harmonic language and choice of texts, from nature and the...

Finnish conductor and composer Nils-Eric Fougstedt composed some of the warmest and most enchanting choral songs in the Swedish language. His harmonic language and choice of texts, from nature and the...

These days, children seem to want to learn to play the saxophone at an earlier age, so they need to be provided with plenty of easy short pieces to sustain their interest before and between examinatio...

In the 1960's Tormis studied the folklore and ways of using it in his music. This series for female chorus was compiled in 1971. Its different parts are dedicated to the folklorists that Tormis sympha...

Chorpartitur (dt./finn.) - gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB)

Ahti Sonninen's brisk arrangements of Nordic melodies are set for string orchestra without violas (violin I, II, III, cello I, II and double bass). Idiomatic, variable writing and short movements make...

Greta Dahlström (1887-1978) was a Finnish composer, choir conductor and music teacher. She extensively worked on composing Finnish folk music and collected folk songs for the Swedish Literature Societ...

Piano reduction available for the first time! Joonas Kokkonen's The Hades of the Birds consists of three songs, two shorter ones framing a longer middle one. The chosen poems were by P. Mustapää (alia...

Ilkka Kuusisto's (b. 1933) Do not stand at my grave and weep for soprano and piano is composed in 2020. The famous and powerful poem of anonymous writer consoles at the moment of seemingly absolute lo...

Published for the first time in 2024, Einojuhani Rautavaara's (1928-2016) Hajoaminen (Finnish for Dissolution, 1956) is set to four grim poems by Finnish poet Lassi Nummi (1928-2012). Plaintive motifs...

Composer Kaj Chydenius (1939-2024) and Sami poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001) celebrated their friendship with collaboration, the song cycle Pohjoiset vuodenajat (The Northern Seasons, 1989) being...

Lotta Wennäkoski (b. 1970) composed her song cycle I stället för vingar (Instead of wings, 2014-2016) to poems of Eva-Stina Byggmästar. The original suite is for mezzo-soprano and ensemble. The compos...

Lars Karlsson (b. 1952) has followed his own distinctive route on the Finnish contemporary music scene as a 'romantic modernist'. 'Två andliga sånger' (Two spiritual songs) consists of two songs for s...