Fennica Gehrman

Aulis Sallinen's powerful opera Ratsumies (The Horseman, 1972) to the libretto by Paavo Haavikko is the origin of the orchestral songs "Neljä laulua unesta" (Four Dream Songs). The composer arranged t...

Timo-Juhani Kyllönen's Trio no. 5 (2004) for flute, violin & piano was commissioned by Imatra Music Institute and the Association of Finnish Music Schools.

Jennah Vainio's Saxophone Quintet (2004) is scored for alto saxophone and string quartet. The composer tells: "I began to compose the Saxophone Quintet in the late summer months of 2002. The air in th...

The lyrical title of Lotta Wennäkoski's Mellan natt och regn (Swedish for "Between Night and Rain") comes from a poem by Tua Forsström (b. 1947), and the music has both rainy and nighttime moods. The...

Esa Pietilä's Blazing Flames for tenor saxophone and string quartet (2018) is a 28-minute-long journey with rapids and backwaters. His interest of combining improvisation and composed music makes the...

For the work valo joka ("the light, which") both the poem by Saila Susiluoto and the composition by Lotta Wennäkoski were commissioned at the same time, and thus they were created partly overlapping a...

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Rautavaara moved to dodecaphony in the orchestral works Praevariata and Modificata. In chamber music the first work in this period is the Oboe Quartet (1957/1964). It includes material that Rautavaara...

Lotta Wennäkoski composed her harp concerto Sigla in 2022. In Segla (2022) for solo harp the concerto's material is reorganized and developed further. The title means "to sail" in Swedish. At the time...

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...

Antti Auvinen's Karkija for bass clarinet and marimba was a commission of Duo Xylokosmos. The work was premiered on 22 November 2007 by Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson (bass clarinet) and Tobias Kuttman (marimb...

Romantic modernist - or modern romanticist - Lars Karlsson (b. 1953) composed his Clarinet concerto (2013-2015) for Christoffer Sundqvist. Connections with Nordic mythology and clarinettist as a shama...

Kai Nieminen's Hymnos IV - Waterscapes... for solo clarinet is composed in 2016.

This product is 1979's edition of the vocal score of Aulis Sallinen's opera Ratsumies (sungable texts in Finnish and in German).

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...

Jyrki Linjama's second string quartet (2018) is subtitled Allerheiligentag III. The material for the Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints' Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn B...

According to Jouni Kaipainen, the fourth string quartet (2006) is one of key works of Seppo Pohjola (b. 1965) and holds a place as a landmark in Finnish quartet literature. Of the composer's five stri...

Seppo Pohjola (b. 1965) composed his fifth string quartet, lasting about 20 minutes, in February-March 2018. He was inspired to write it by a visit to the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam the prev...

Composer Jennah Vainio sees End Credits for string trio (2016) as a portrayal of a person's inner mind: "It is a beautiful, tender and introvert snapshot of a moment, a journey into the thoughts of a...