Einojuhani Rautavara

First edition of Rautavaara's early male choir work in a version for SATB choir. The composer also made some minor changes to the strictest dodecaphonic texture since expression had become more import...

Einojuhani Rautavaara is the leading Finnish composer of his generation (born 1928). His late style combines modernism with mystical romanticism. A typical example of this style, the solo piano work P...

This 3-minute piano piece forms part of a sequence with Passionale (2003, also published by Boosey & Hawkes) and Narcissus (2002, published by Fennica Gehrman). Rautavaara is the leading Finnish compo...

Rautavaara's Cantus arcticus (Concerto for birds and orchestra) is his most popular orchestral work. This idiomatic, ear-opening transcription captures the essence of Rautavaara's musical language, ha...

Includes four captivating songs from the opera Rasputin (Lävitse kimmeltävän yön, Kaukana on minun maani, Troikka kiitää & Kuu kelmeä vain virtaan kuvastuu).

Einojuhani Rautavaara's Music For Upright Piano. Commissioned by Radio Helsinki and dedicated to Ralf Gothoni. In 1965, when Einojuhani Rautavaara was thirty-seven years old, he wasawarded the presti...

UA Helsinki, 26. Februar 1969

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