Fennica Gehrman

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...

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 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 e...

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...

The works of New York -based Lithuanian composer Žibuokle Martinaityte (b. 1973) have been lauded as breathtaking and profoundly moving. Her stimulating music bristles with energy and tension and revo...

The works of New York -based Lithuanian composer Žibuokle Martinaityte (b. 1973) have been lauded as breathtaking and profoundly moving. Her stimulating music bristles with energy and tension and revo...

Die Werke der in New York lebenden litauischen Komponistin Žibuokle Martinaityté (geb. 1973) werden als atemberaubend und zutiefst bewegend gelobt. Ihre anregende Musik strotzt vor Energie und Spannun...

CONCERT OVERTURE is a 12-minute work for small orchestra. Sibelius conducted the premiere performance in Turku, Finland on 7 April, 1900. The work has not been performed since the first years of the 2...

Ida Moberg (1859-1947) war eine finnische Komponistin und Lehrerin. Sie wuchs in einer musikalischen Familie auf, ihr Vater war Instrumentenbauer. Ida war musikalisch außerordentlich gut ausgebildet:...

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...