Fennica Gehrman

Esa Pietilä's Icons of Blue, Black & Sun (String quartet no. 2) was composed in 2022 and premiered by SKATTA String Quartet. Three icons in three colours is an association of colours and the state of...

Renewed string parts (2025) with a study score! Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) dedicated his String quartet (1985) dedicated to the memory of his friend, the Estonian actor Urmas Kibuspuu (1953-1985). The...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) second string quartet dates from February 1970, when he was in his second year as a student of Eino-Juhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy. Its premiere in the debut concert...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) String quartet no. 3 (1971) comprises eight short sections played in a single movement without pause and is strictly linear in character. The work begins, in all simplicity, wit...

Nils-Eric Foustedt's bright and playful three-movement suite for string orchestra was composed in 1953.

Für Erzähler und Streichorchester.

As often in Rautavaara's music, Adagio Celeste (2000) got its impulse from a poem by Lassi Nummi.

Harri Wessman arrangement of his Suite for two violins and piano (1990) for two violins and string orchestra (2021) is suitable for pupil orchestras too! This product includes the score, solo violin p...

Reminiscentiae: Kevadkillud (2009) for strings and xylophone is an orchestral adaption by Veljo Tormis of his Kevadkillud (1966) for women's chorus to poems of Jaan Kaplinski (ISMN 9790550090545), whi...

String Trio in G Minor (1893-94) is a work of Jean Sibelius's mature chamber music period, and his symphonic writing style is clearly present. The trio was never finished, and the only completed movem...

Harri Wessman's Concertino for trumpet and string orchestra Peilejä (Mirrors) was premiered by its dedicatée Sanna Haarla and Juvenalia Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Rainer Palas, in Espoo (Finland)...

Lars Karlsson's Serenade for a friend for violin or flute & piano or organ) was premiered in 1992 by the violinist John Storgårds and composer himself.

Robert Kajanus (1856-1933) was a highly influential Finnish conductor and composer. He studied in Helsinki and Germany, established the Helsinki Orchestra Society (later Helsinki Philharmonic) and its...

Harri Wessman (b. 1949) composed Three Caprices for Konstantin Weitz in 1994. The work for violin solo opens with Bach-like Vivace, which is followed by a singing Larghetto. The final Allegro is a mov...

Yrjö Kilpinen (1892-1959) is most known for his hundreds of lieds and song cycles. His instrumental compositions have been less know, ie. the six piano sonatas and suite for gamba and piano. Large-sca...

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...

Mikko Heiniö's Alla madre (2007) abandons the traditional virtuoso concerto concept: here a large orchestra engages in dialogue with a solo violin. The first movement is called Arrivo, "Arrival”: the...

What are the various ways to touch upon the strings of violin and harp, if the musicians are equipped - in addition to fingertips and the bow - with a sheet of paper? Lotta Wennäkoski's good-humoured...

The violin duo Sic (2023-2024) by Lotta Wennäkoski is a composition of notes, gestures and reactions between the two violinists, and it is inspired by and tailored for the wonderful and charismatic Ti...