Fennica Gehrman

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)...

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...