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…

An Extensive collection of reels, jigs, hornpipes and polkas from the French Canadian, Cape Breton, Scottish, Shetland, New England, and Southern Old Time Traditions arranged for the piano accordion. Written with the beginner as well as the advanced player in mind, the arrangements are complete with ornamentation, fingering, left hand notation and chord symbols. Appropriate for any G clef instrume…

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Par POE LARA. Lara Poe's (b. 1993) good-humoured Contradanse for eight wind instruments employs slightly off-kilter dance rhythms to create a rhythmic background structure to the piece. The melody lines constantly change timbre as they move through different instrumental combinations. Duration: 4'30'' Instruments: Flute Clarinet in B flat 2 Bassoons 2 Trumpets in B flat Tenor Trombone Bass Trombon…

Celtiques est un ensemble de dix arrangements de mélodies traditionnelles bretonnes ou irlandaises pour choeur mixte et orchestre,L'écriture varie les orchestrations (voix solistes, double choeur, choeur de femmes) et mêle les langages jazz et traditionnel dans un kaleïdoscope de couleurs musicales,Il existe une version pour choeur et orchestre de cette oeuvre rassemblant trio jazz (contrebasse, b…

Par ALAKOTILA TIMO. Timo Alakotila composed Kangastuksia - Illusions for young talented musicians at Hyvinkää Music Institute in 2006. The fresh combination of flute, violin, violoncello and piano was given by the commissioner. In two movements Illusions offers dreamy vibes as well as constantly changing key signatures considerable speed. Composer, musician Timo Alakotila (b. 1959) is a distingu…

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…

Kaija Saariaho is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers, having won a number of international compositions, and has become best known for her works which exploit electronics. The inspiration for writing NoaNoa came at the time of writing the music for the ballet Maa. and quot - I wanted to write down, exaggerate, even abuse certain flute mannerisms that had been haunting me for som…