Aho will turn 60 years on 9 March. His 14th symphony features Arabian and Chinese hues and hypnotic rhythms with an extensive role for the percussion (darabuka, djembe, gongs). The work was inspired b...
Text: Mawlana Rumi, translated into Finnish by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila. Aho's lyrical interpretation of Rumi's impressive poem (for small SSAA choir or female quartet) was composed in 2003.
A large-scale work in four movements lasting over half an hour, Kalevi Aho's Sonata for violoncello and piano (2019) in four movements is furios, virtuosic and poweful, with a lyrical second movement....
Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) concerto no. 2 for cello and orchestra (2013) is in five movements performed without a break. It begins with a swinging Berceuse, followed by a very quick, virtuosic Presto in 5...
This is one of the best-known pieces of classical music in the world today and probably the piece most identified with Tchaikovsky. It has been used extensively in many different contexts and has beco...
This vigorous 'Russian Dance' appears in Act 2 of The Nutcracker ballet. Tchaikovsky utilized the Cossack Trepak dance of his homeland for this exciting movement, contrasting effectively with the more...
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...
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry wrote a number of piano miniatures of which the most effective and evocative set is the Shulbrede Tunes. The title refers to Shulbrede Priory in Lynchmere, England. T...
Kalevi Aho's popular series of Solo pieces for different instruments gets a new piece for clarinet. Composed in 2018 it was premiered in October 2019 by Simon Reitmaier in Tirol, Austria. Duration c....
The Essential Flute is a volume that will be a welcome addition to any flautist's collection. It contains six popular and tuneful works, with composers ranging from Mozart to Joplin and styles that va...
Three Songs to Texts by Mawlana Rumi by Kalevi Aho have texts in Finnish translations.
Frauenchor (Kinderchor) (SSAA)
Kalevi Aho's Solo II for Piano.
Kalevi Aho's Sateen aikaan (Rain Time), five songs for mezzo-soprano and string quartet is set to poems of a Finnish modernist Tuomas Anhava (1927-2001). The composer tells: 'Setting these poems to mu...
Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) composed ER-OS in 2015 as a wedding gift for conductor-clarinetist Osmo Vänskä and violinist Erin Keefe and named the work with the initials of their names. The virtuosic work is...
Kalevi Aho composed Quartet for flute, alto saxophone, guitar & percussion in 1982 for Cluster ensemble, which is the reason for the particular combination of instruments. The work was premiered in Am...
Kalevi Aho's Quintet for oboe and string quartet (1973) opens his prominent oeuvre for oboe. Consisting of two virtuosic movements the duration of the quintet is 30 minutes. This product includes a st...
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...
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...
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 706 * In Dulci Jubilo, BWV 751 * Ach Gott und Herr, BWV 714 * Gott, durch deine Gute, BWV 724 * Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 * Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre Gott...
Prelude, Toccata And Postlude by Kalevi Aho for Cello and Piano.
COMPOSER'S NOTE The solo flute piece Solo III consists of two contrasting movements. the slow first movement was a commission from the Cruselk Week Music Festival in Uusikaupunki, Finland, for the Sca...
Kalevi Aho's Solo XVII is a real clavichord work: it handles the instrument in its own special way, which is different from that of a piano or harpsichord. Solo XVII is in two main sections. The first...
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) is best known for his symphonies and string quartets, but it is generally not known that he composed many film scores. His feeling for the orchestra and sense of drama...
This work reveals Aho the sensual lyricist. The texts are Chinese love songs by three poets (in Finnish). According to Aho this work aspires to the intolerable lighness of life and existence - a phras...
This album has been compiled as a tribute to Henry Purcell in the 300th anniversary year of his death. Purcell did not write a great deal of organ music, so Bryan Hesford has taken works from varied s...
Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker remains one of today's favorite ballets, with its magical theme and varying movements of different moods and tempi. 'Waltz of the Flowers' is one of Tchaikovsky's b...
Kalevi Aho's percussion concerto 'Sieidi' is one of the most often performed percussion concertos of our time. The Sieidi concerto is in one movement but divided into several sections both faster and...
'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 e...
