Fennica Gehrman

A piano suite in four movements written by Sibelius in his youth in 1889, accompanied by a descriptive text by the composer himself. It is thus programmatic, but the texts are not necessarily intended...

Ilmari Hannikainen (1892-1955) war der bedeutendste finnische Pianist in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zu seinen Lebzeiten war er auch einer der berühmtesten Komponisten des Landes. Han...

A suite of prelude and three baroque style dances, written in 1928 by Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982), the first distinct FInnish female composer.

Piano Key - Originalrepertoire für Anfänger bietet eine bunte Sammlung von kurzen Vortragsstücken für junge Klavierspieler. Die Aufnahmen aller Stücke sind in der Playlist auf dem YouTube-Kanal des Ve...

Published for the first time in 2022, Aulis Sallinen's Serenade for two wind quartets was composed in 1963.

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 Mot natten (Towards night), three nocturnes and two interludes for cello and guitar was composed in 2018. This suite found its inspiration and name in Finnish poet Bo Carpelan's (1926-2...

X'Three (2003/2021) by Olli Koskelin is the third piece of a solo cello suite consisting of seven compositions. Each of the seven pieces can be performed individually or detached with other X'-composi...

Kalevi Ahos virtuose, einfühlsame Porträts von vier finnischen Cellopädagogen für vier Violoncelli wurden zwischen 2008 und 2013 komponiert. Dieses Produkt besteht aus einer Gesamtpartitur und einem S...

Lars Karlsson's intensive Recitative and aria for flute and organ (1990, rev. 2021) finds peace in the end.

In Olli Koskelin's 7 Haiku for flute and guitar the haiku gets three different interpretations: intertwined with the composed version the performers improvise it and read it out loud. The texts of hai...

Roope Mäenpää's Sonate für Flöte und Klavier (2020) wurde auf der kleinen Insel Utö im Schärenmeer (in der Ostsee) komponiert. Isoliert von seiner gewohnten Umgebung fand der Komponist dort weniger Ru...

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...

Antti Auvinens Delfiinimeditaatio (Eine Delphinmeditation) ist eine Vertonung der Kurzgeschichte von Harry Salmenniemi. Das Werk war ein Auftragswerk des Dominante-Chores anlässlich seines 45-jährigen...

Johanna Almark - Sängerin, Orchester- und Chordirigentin, Komponistin, Arrangeurin und Geigerin - ist eine der vielseitigsten Musikerinnen Finnlands. Ihr strahlendes Veni lux für gemischten Chor und O...

Der Komponist erzählt: Ab und zu bekommt man eines dieser seltenen Kompositionsprojekte in die Hand, bei denen man moderne ästhetische Überlegungen beiseite schieben und einfach Spaß haben kann. Als d...

Erkki-Sven Tüür 'Dick and Toff in Wonderland', a swirling duo for flute and tuba was composed in 1991. Duration c. 6 minutes.

Esa Pietilä's The Wind Wants for wind quintet examins various kinds of wind: 'A balmy summer breeze suddenly gives way to an autumn gale that blows with all its might, whips round corners, forms flurr...

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'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...

The Piano Trio (1982) by Einar Englund (1916-1999) is sombre in mood. In the second movement, Englund's trademark playfulness carries a hint of sarcasm and at times builds up to a wild militant dance...

Timo-Juhani Kyllönen's Trio no. 4 op. 38 (1994) for flute, clarinet & accordion was commissioned by the Association of Finnish Music Schools. Optional instrumentations: for two violins & accordion for...