Fennica Gehrman

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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 composed Quasi una fantasia for horn and organ (2011) on the request of organist Jan Lehtola, who premiered it with horn player Petri Komulainen 11th March 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. The pi...

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...

Juha T. Koskinen (b. 1972) tells about his String quartet no. 2: "Second string quartet (2014) is connected to great changes in my personal life. A few months after the score was finished, I became a...

Juha T. Koskinen's (b. 1972) responsiveness to timbre and particular inetrest to take into account the musical dramaturgy as a parameter in the duration of the movements are important in the String qu...

Molto appassionato, think of Argentina! Kalevi Aho wrote Tango 60 for string quartet (2012) in order to celebrate his sister's 60th birthday.

Kimmo Hakola's String Quartet No. 4 op. 95 (2016) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Finland and it's dedicated to the Meta4 Quartet. In composer's words, it is "the floundering, playful, if...

Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with p...

Timo Alakotila's La cantina (String quartet no. 3, 2013) was commissioned by a distinguished Finnish string quartet Kamus. The title of the quartet in four movements was inspired by the ongoing renova...

Kalevi Aho composed a shimmering six-minute journey for string quartet under the title Sumussa ("In the fog", 2023). It was premiered by Tempera Quartet at Kaustinen Chamber Music Week in January 2024...