Einojuhani Rautavara

Rautavaara wrote this short work in 1999 for Seppo Kimanen's birthday. It was premiered by Yoshiko Arai, violin and Martti Rousi, cello, in Helsinki on 7 February 1999.

CD: Marko Ylönen (violoncello), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Max Pommer ODE 819-2

I composed the flute concerto ,Dances with the Winds' in 1974 for the Swedish flutist Gunilla von Bahr, who specialized in the entire flute family. Therefore, at the beginning and at the end of the fo...

According to Rautavaara it was a pity to leave the melancholy, moonlit songs of his opera Rasputin to languish within the confines of the opera. He therefore arranged the set of unabashedly sentimenta...

1. Personalia - 2. Temporalia - 3. Qualitativa - 4. Quantitativa [GCh] 1960 3' SATB(Sprechchor). UA Zürich, 1958.

The pieces in this book are prescribed for use in the Piano Accordion Examination of the Tara Examination Board of Irish Music. Contains these

As if in homage to choral history, Rautavaara's Credo from 1972 departs from chant-like beginnings, passing through homophony and polyphony towards a modern synthesis of all its elements. It is equall...