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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...

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...

Roope Mäenpää's (b. 1990) impressionistically flowing Bloom (2000) flourishes in three versions, all of them included in this product: versions for euphonium & piano, tuba & piano and a version for so...

Published for the first time in 2022, Aulis Sallinen's Serenade for two wind quartets was composed in 1963.

The material for Jyrki Linjama's Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints' Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The first work in the cycle is a string trio (2007), the secon...

A large-scale work in four movements lasting over half an hour, Kalevi Aho's Sonata for violoncello and piano (2019) in four movements is furios, virtuosic and poweful, with a lyrical second movement....

Mikko Heiniö's Mot natten (Towards night), three nocturnes and two interludes for cello and guitar was composed in 2018. This suite found its inspiration and name in Finnish poet Bo Carpelan's (1926-2...

X'Three (2003/2021) by Olli Koskelin is the third piece of a solo cello suite consisting of seven compositions. Each of the seven pieces can be performed individually or detached with other X'-composi...