Svit för Helena för blåskvintett. Par KARLSSON LARS. Lars Karlsson's Suite for Helena (Svit för Helena, 1994) for wind quintet is built on folk tunes from his native Åland Islands. In five movements, it takes a form from classical models (French suite, fuga, scherzo) and also of 'family diary' describing the first steps of a baby boy (David's promenade), the bird sounds at the sea next to beloved …

Towards the Night for flute and guitar. Par WESSMAN HARRI. 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 found that Pan had had some love affair with an other nymph than famous Syrinx as well, with Pitys (greek pine-tree). So the listener may think o…

Par MAENPAA ROOPE. Roope Mäenpää's Lähi (Finnish for ?near?, ?close by?) for violin and clarinet was composed for Anna Angervo and Janne Pesonen in a situation when the COVID-19 pandemic had shut down most of the society in the spring 2020. Lähi is a diary-entry like vignette, a picture of a moment, of the fear and anxiety caused by the sudden situation - but also a sounding memory of intimacy and…

Viulusonaatti. Par KILPINEN YRJO. Yrjö Kilpinen (1892-1959) is most known for his hundreds of lieds and song cycles. His instrumental compositions have been less know, ie. the six piano sonatas and suite for gamba and piano. Large-scale Sonata for violin and piano is dated in 1935 with opus number 87. The work was never finished, and National Library in Helsinki holds several sketches and versions…

Par WENNAKOSKI LOTTA. Lotta Wennäkoski's Mien (2014) for wind quintet is based on rippling, wavering, timbre changing effect of bisbigliando. The good-humoured piece has a swinging jingle, and with duration of approximately 5 minutes is suitable for many kinds of programming. Mien was premiered in February 2015 by the wind quintet of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra. This product includes the full sc…

Par LEIVISKA HELVI. Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä's output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, i…

Par MAENPAA ROOPE. Roope Mäenpää's (b. 1990) impressionistically flowing Bloom (2000) flourishes in three versions, all of them included in this product: versions for euphonium and piano, tuba and piano and a version for solo euphonium. The work was commissioned as a graduation gift for tuba player Nuppu Salmiovirta. Duration: c. 6' / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Tuba et Piano

Piano accompaniments for book G5. Par SZILVAY GEZA. The volume G of the Colourstrings Violin ACB tutors by Géza Szilvay studies every position of the violin in a separate volume. It offers art-pedagogical material in order to read confidently in the positions, to master the shifting movements and to understand why and when to use a particular position. Colourstrings Violin ABC: Piano accompaniment…