SKU: HL.48000673
UPC: 073999318524. 8.25x11.75x0.09 inches.
Contents: Berceuse (Hannikainen) * Iltarauha/Calme du soir (Hannikainen) * Kansanlaulu/Folk Song (Madetoja) * Tanssi/Dance (Madetoja) * Prelude (Madetoja) * Leikki/A Game (Madetoja) * Prelude (Palmgren) * Illusion (Palmgren) * Berceuse (Palmgren) * Romance (Palmgren) * Scherzo (Palmgren) * Akileija/Columbine (Sibelius) * Lied (Sibelius) * Impromptu (Sibelius) * Scene romantique (Sibelius) * Kylakirkko/The Village Church (Sibelius).
SKU: FG.55011-541-5
ISBN 9790550115415.
This edition comprises 32 of the numerous piano pieces by Finnish composer Heino Kaski (1885-1957). Many of them are lasting favourities among Finnish pianists, such as Yo meren rannalla (Night by the Sea) and the brilliant Pankakoski Prelude. Also in the collection are many more lyrical miniatures with beautiful arching melodies.
SKU: FG.042-08334-5
ISBN 979-0-042-08334-5.
These five miniatures by the Finnish composer Juhani Nuorvala dwell on echoes and 'shadows' formed around the notes, and timbral distortions made by colouring loudly!played notes with extremely quiet 'ghost tones'. These combinations are then transformed into the chordal domain. The first movement acts as a wellspring to which the others look for their source.
SKU: FG.55011-362-6
ISBN 9790550113626.
Finn ish Clarinet Collection 1900-60 is fresh new collection of works for for clarinet and piano written in Finland around the middle of the 20th century. These works have until now been gathering dust in archives, now getting a dose of fresh air in these new editions. The collection is augmented with new arrangements of miniatures written by Finnish composers in the early 20th century that are particularly well suited for clarinet.
SKU: FG.55011-611-5
ISBN 9790550116115.
Six delightful miniatures from Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947), one of the most significant Finnish contemporaries of Sibelius, are now available as new guitar arrangements by Lauri Manninen. The Miniatures suite (1914) consists of five movements: The Evening Star, Valsette, Nocturne, The Game and The Children's March. The Legend from Suite Pastorale (1916) was also originally composed for piano.
SKU: FG.55011-552-1
ISBN 9790550115521.
In Olli Koskelin's 7 Haiku for flute and guitar the haiku gets three different interpretations: intertwined with the composed version the performers improvise it and read it out loud. The texts of haiku are included in English and in Finnish.Duration: c. 15'This product is a B4 sized folder with two copies of the performance score (loose pages).Olli Koskelin's (born 16 April 1955) compositional output reflects a wide range of interests. The vast area covered by his style encompasses the neo-impressionism of the piano work Courbures (1989) to the post-expressionist echoes of his Music for String Quartet (1981) as well as the breakneck virtuosity of his clarinet piece Exalte (1985/1991) and the rich romantic textures of his orchestral piece ... like a planet silently breathing... (1993). He often uses the overtone series like the French spectral composers and avoids dramatic culmination. Soft harmonics, tranquil arching melodies, a leisurely rhythmical pulse and a coherence of mood are in evidence in his later works as in Uurre (1997) for chamber ensemble, Miniatures (1997) for string quartet and Circles within for 19 solo strings.
SKU: FG.55011-775-4
ISBN 9790550117754.
Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement. Duration: c. 13' This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized). American-Finn ish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality. His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music.
