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...

This album has been compiled as a tribute to Henry Purcell in the 300th anniversary year of his death. Purcell did not write a great deal of organ music, so Bryan Hesford has taken works from varied s...

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...

L'incantevole poesia della narratrice svedese Elsa Beskow su una zampa di puledro, il primo fiore che saluta la primavera del nord, per coro misto e pianoforte. Testo in svedese o in inglese (traduzio...

Aho's completion of Bach's Contrapunctus XIV. This edition is suitable for wind ensemble of four or more players. Parts for C-instruments, B-flat-instrument and E-flat-instruments are provided.

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...

Le opere della compositrice lituana di New York Žibuokle Martinaityté (nata nel 1973) sono state lodate come mozzafiato e profondamente commoventi. La sua musica stimolante è piena di energia e tensio...

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) è stata una compositrice e insegnante finlandese. Cresce in una famiglia di musicisti, con il padre costruttore di strumenti. Ida ebbe una formazione musicale eccezionale: studi...

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...