Fennica Gehrman

Sopran und gemischter Chor (SATB) (lat.)

Jyrki Linjama composed Sonata da chiesa I for piano as a commission from the Carinthischer Sommer festival in Austria and premiered by Juho Pohjonen at Ossiach Abbey in summer 2010. The title alludes...

Lauri Mäntysaari's solo accordion work Élégie (2020-2021) was forming into a serene, melancholic passacaglia, when the devastating news shocked the world: the iconic church of Notre-Dame was on fire....

Einar Englund (1916-1999) was a major Finnish composer of symphonies, concertos and film music. His first symphony (1946) bears the title "War Symphony", not given by the composer. He preferred to thi...

Published for the first time in 2024! Einojuhani Rautavaara's Concerto grottesco was composed in 1950 and is among his first orchestral works. With overall duration of six minutes, the work includes f...

An idiomatic guitar transcription of this Sibelius's solo cello work dating from 1887 when he was 22 years. Atanaskovic has done a great favour for all guitarists by arranging this work for his instru...

Lotta Wennäkoski's Balai for solo guitar (2009) was inspired by the most common technique on the world's most common instrument - strumming. The Ballet interlude momentarily interrupts the rhythmic co...

Lotta Wennäkoski's Balayettes (2009) for two guitars was written for Helsinki Guitar Duo and premiered by Ron van Gemert and Mikko Ikäheimo 9th October 2010 in Lappeenranta, Finland. It is inspired by...

Paavo Korpijaakko's (b. 1977) guitar sonata Kimberley was composed in 2006 and dedicated to Petri Kumela. It is Korpijaakko's fist piece for the guitar, and the composers gives credit to the commissio...

The work opens with a dense theme: a center, a strange planet. The music returns to it later three times, as if it would be seen from different perspectives or in a different lighting.

Kärkkäinen has written several chamber works which include guitar, and his work list also includes a concerto for silent guitar. Tener Tenebrum dates from 2007 and it was commisioned by the Helsinki G...

Mikko Heiniö's April evenings for black twins (2015), a sonata in five movements, is a virtuoso piece for pianos, inspired by evenings in the month of April. The twins here are identical, so in additi...

Eeva Sarmanto-Neuvosen ja Liisa Aroheimo-Marvian valitsema ja editoima kokoelma erityylisiä ja -tasoisia sonaattimuodon kehitystä ilmentäviä sävellyksiä kolmelta eri vuosisadalta jälleen saatavilla! K...

Lauri Mäntysaari (b. 1982) composed "Preludi tulevalle" elämälle (Prelude to future life, op. 10 for piano) in 2005 in order to explore how strongly limited harmonic selection, appearingly anxious and...

Lauri Kilpiö's (b. 1974) Six Winter Scenes for two pianos (2022) was commissioned by Joensuu Conservatory. The nostalgic memories and different impressions of winter take the technical abilities of th...

A piano suite in four movements written by Sibelius in his youth in 1889, accompanied by a descriptive text by the composer himself. It is thus programmatic, but the texts are not necessarily intended...

Ilmari Hannikainen (1892-1955) was the most important Finnish pianist during the first decades of the 1900s. In his lifetime he also was one of the country's most famous composers. Hannikainen studied...

A suite of prelude and three baroque style dances, written in 1928 by Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982), the first distinct FInnish female composer.

Piano Key - Original reperortoire for beginners offers a colourful collection of short performance pieces for young piano players. The recordings of all the pieces are available on the playlist on the...