In spring 2020, coronavirus began spreading throughout the world and in many places people were subjected to quarantine. It was then that Hiyoli Togawa, a violist, proposed that the BIS record label r...
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 (b. 1949) composed Five mythical images for solo oboe (2015) for 60th birthday of his brother Keijo Aho, who also premiered the work. The five movement work (c. 10 minutes) is a concert pie...
Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) Clarinet concerto (2005) has five movements played without pause. The beginning 'Tempestoso' is dramatic and powerful, but there is also a beautiful, slow middle section. The se...
