Fennica Gehrman

It was through Einar Englund (1916-1999) that the Neoclassicism already familiar elsewhere in the world landed on Finnish shores in the late 1940s. A composer especially of large-scale orchestral and...

Teemu Halmkronan kuusi pianokappaletta kertovat kromatiikalla, kimaltavilla dissonansseilla ja muunnelluilla asteikoilla maustettuja, vahvatunnelmaisia tarinoita. Monenlaisia tekniikoita hyödyntävät b...

Eeva Sarmanto-Neuvosen ja Liisa Aroheimo-Marvian valitsema ja editoima kokoelma erityylisiä ja -tasoisia sonaattimuodon kehitystä ilmentäviä sävellyksiä kolmelta eri vuosisadalta jälleen saatavilla! K...

Olli Kortekangas composed Vida vingar (Swedish for Wide wings) for piano and organ in 2021-2022. It was premiered in S:t John's Church in Helsinki, Finland - with 70 metres' distance between the two i...

A collection of piano gems by Erkki Melartin (1875-1937). The pieces have been chosen with care and include many not previously published in albums. The book is ideally suited for teaching purposes an...

Allain Leprest was a great French chansonnier. The friendship between him and Finnish jazz composer Heikki Sarmanto produced a unique series of piano works - Impressions de Paris, dedicated to Paris,...

Six small charming piano compositions for children written in 1929 by Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982), the first distinct FInnish female compose.

Iiro Rantala has composed 10 new jazzy piano tunes for this collection. They are swinging, surprising and mood-creating tunes, with imaginative details spicing up the melodies - rhythmic hooks, playin...

Erkki-Sven Tüür really exploits the potential of the piano in this three-movement sonata for piano (1985). The opening and closing movements are based on flowing, pianistic arpeggios, whereas in the s...

Lauri Kilpiö's (b. 1974) Night Rowing on the Lake (Yösoutu järvellä, 2021) for solo piano was commissioned by the Tapiola Youth Piano Competition and first peformed by its participants in November 202...

Duettini for two double basses by László Rossa and Bérengère Scheppler brings along chamber music from the very beginning! In these 15 miniature duos the easy first double bass part consists of only o...

Uuno Klami (1900-1961) became one of the leading Finnish Modernists during the 1920s. His main genre was orchestral music, and he experimented widely with his orchestration, combining national themes...

Harri Wessman's Summer Variations for viola and piano (1998) exploites the rich and romantic sound of the viola and enjoys the many shades of summer days. It is dedicated to violist Yuri Gandelsman, w...

La convincente y alegre escritura de Harri Wessman para jóvenes músicos da como resultado numerosas obras. El álbum para viola de Ellen (2012) consta de nueve piezas para viola y piano. La parte de vi...

Eine Rarität für Viola-Spieler: Erstausgabe dieses seltenen Werkes für Viola und Klavier von Jean Sibelius aus dem Jahr 1893. (Basierend auf Sibelius' Piano Quintet von 1890. ) Mit Kommentaren von Pia...

Victoria Yagling (1946-2011) nació en Rusia y vivió en Finlandia desde 1990. Su larga carrera como violonchelista sirvió de excelente acompañamiento a la composición que comenzó a temprana edad. Duran...

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...

Harri Wessman (b. 1949) composed ten easy pieces for young cellists and pianists in 1991. The idiomatic approach to writing music makes the pieces easy to adopt. The cellist should be acquinted with t...

The composer tells (2001): "Pianist Martti Rautio called me at the beginning of the year 2001, and told to my surprise that he has found among the notes of his cellist father Erkki a sonata by me and...

Einar Englund's (1916-1999) Flute Concerto (1985) is beyond dispute one of his greatest works. Its finest attributes are its rich melodic invention, colourful instrumentation and immediate message. Ad...

Harri Wessman's Pan and the Nymph Pitys (1979) for flute and guitar bears the first symptoms of his later style, the texture being softly dissonant. In an old mythological dictionary the composer foun...