Fennica Gehrman

Victoria Yagling's Suite for Cello and String Orchestra (1967) is one of her first successes as a composer. The movement layout of the Suite is fast-slow-fast-slow. The first movement, Toccata, is a p...

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.

Lars Karlsson's intensive Recitative and aria for flute and organ (1990, rev. 2021) finds peace in the end.

In Olli Koskelin's 7 Haiku for flute and guitar the haiku gets three different interpretations: intertwined with the composed version the performers improvise it and read it out loud. The texts of hai...

Roope Mäenpää's Sonata for flute and piano (2020) was composed on a small island Utö in the Archipelago Sea (in the Baltic Sea). Isolated from his normal environment the composer didn't find so much p...

Radiating praise for the power of song and biodiversity, Johanna Almark's and Heta Heiskanen's Today and a Thousand Years was written for three-part treble choir and piano. It is suitable for both you...

Antti Auvinen's Delfiinimeditaatio (A Dolphin Meditation) is set to Harry Salmenniemi's short story. The work was a commission by the Dominante Choir, for its 45th anniversary. The text is in Finnish....

Johanna Almark - singer, orchestra and choral conductor, composer, arranger and violinist - is one of Finland's most versatile musicians. Her radiant Veni lux for mixed choir and organ (trumpet ad lib...

The composer tells: "Every so often, you get handed one of those rare composing projects where you get to put aside modern(ist) aesthetic considerations and just have fun. When I was approached by the...

In this set of love songs "love is a place" after one of the great poets of the genre, Matthew Whittall wanted to create a sense of progression from various phases of that universal feeling - falling...

Esa Pietilä's The Wind Wants for wind quintet examins various kinds of wind: 'A balmy summer breeze suddenly gives way to an autumn gale that blows with all its might, whips round corners, forms flurr...

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...

The Piano Trio (1982) by Einar Englund (1916-1999) is sombre in mood. In the second movement, Englund's trademark playfulness carries a hint of sarcasm and at times builds up to a wild militant dance...

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...

Maija Hynninen's piano quintet Nine-channeled Pearl flows effortlessly. Beginning with rhythmical gamelan-inspired movement it continues through twirling scales that lead to the heart of the piece - a...

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...

Experience chamber music at its finest with one of the most captivating instrumentations in music history: This expressive Quintet for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and piano captivates listeners thr...

xRoope Mäenpää's Lähi (Finnish for 'near', 'close by') for violin and clarinet was composed for Anna Angervo and Janne Pesonen in a situation when the COVID-19 pandemic had shut down most of the socie...

Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from...

Lotta Wennäkoski tells about her 10 minute long work Päärme (Hem) for piano trio: "We often speak in music of crafting in a figurative sense, and craftsmanship is, for the composer particularly, a tra...

Composer, musician Timo Alakotila (b. 1959) is a distinguished, active and versatile talent in the Finnish music scene whose long career working with different genres of music – folk music in particul...

Kurvameelsed laulud (Melancholy songs) for mezzo-soprano and strings by Veljo Tormis are based on three Estonian folk songs. The texts (sungable texts in Estonian, an English translation is included)...