SKU: FG.55011-289-6
ISBN 979-0-55011-289-6.
Second volume of a popular collection including Finnish piano classics by Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, Valse triste and Andante festivo), Oskar Merikanto (Romance and Summer Night Idyll), Toivo Kuula (Pankakoski) and others.
SKU: FG.55011-353-4
ISBN 9790550113534.
Third collection in the Finnish Favourities for Piano series includes modern classics such as Kimalluksia (Gleams) by Tauno Marttinen, Symmetry by Tapio Tuomela, Partita by Einojuhani Rautavaara as well as some romatic surprises and new pieces.
SKU: FG.55011-479-1
ISBN 9790550114791.
Doc. Mus. Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo's anthology Finnish Favourites for the Saxophone is an almost complete compendium of works written for saxophone and piano in Finland from the 1930s to the 1950s. Vilho Luolajan-Mikkola's suite Elokuisessa Helsingissa, though written in 1984, it is nearer in look and feel to the other works in this collection than to other music for saxophone written in the 1980s. Almost all of the works included are original works for saxophone, but a few arrangements written by legendary saxophone virtuoso Josef Kaartinen in the 1930s are also included. All works are published now for the first time. In terms of technical demands, the works range from basic level examination standard to challenging music institute standard, some perhaps even requiring a performer of professional calibre.
SKU: FG.55011-609-2
ISBN 9790550116092.
Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935) is one of the most famous Finnish contemporary composers. In his early instrumental works, Sallinen was still seeking to establish a style of his own. He had studied at the Sibelius Academy in the late 1950s, first with Aarre Merikanto - a composer representing a national brand of Neoclassicism - and then with Joonas Kokkonen, at that time just transitioning from Neoclassicism to dodecaphony. Twelve-tone music had won fairly widespread acceptance in contemporary Finn-ish music, and Sallinen was influenced, too. The Variations are Sallinen's first real work for the cello - an instrument that would later be one of his favourites, its warm, deep voice corres-ponding to his music's often dark undercurrent. The Variations for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 5 were composed in 1961-1962 and premiered in October 1962. The basic motif consists of a set of three descending intervals stated by the cello at the beginning: D-D flat-F, C-B-G and B flat-A-F sharp. Their use as basic material is a ref-lection of the composer's dodecaphony-oriented period, and variation of this material provides the framework for the piece. Variations for Cello and Orchestra are now published for the first time. Available are a reduction for cello and piano, study score and complete performance material with orchestra.
SKU: MB.97210
ISBN 9780786648009. UPC: 796279062350. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
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 instrument.
SKU: FG.55011-608-5
ISBN 9790550116085.
SKU: FG.55011-529-3
ISBN 9790550115293.
Venezuelan trumpet virtuoso Pacho Flores asked Tuomas Turriago to write a piece for their recital in Tampere (Finland) in April 2019. The composer tells: My half-Colombian soul fell in love with the Venezuelan merengue at once when it was introduced to me by Pacho, and it has been an important construction material in my music ever since. It was featured in my children's opera Prinsessa Papupata (2013-15) as well as in my Sonatas for Tuba and Piano (2010) and Alto Saxophone and Piano (2018), just to mention a few works. In Tanguerengue I decided to combine two of my favourite rhythms, tango and merengue. Hence the name Tanguerengue. This is one of my happiest compositions and gives an enormous amount of room for groovy rhythmical play and limitless trumpet virtuosity. The form is one typical of virtuoso works, a slow introduction followed by a fast movement. The career of the composer, pianist and conductor Tuomas Turriago (b. 1979) has been very versatile, the main motivator being a passion for music, regardless of instrument, style or genre. As a pianist, he has focused on chamber music, and has worked as a lecturer in collaborating piano at Tampere Music Academy since 2004. He has been soloist of various Finnish orchestras and has performed at numerous music festivals in Finland and all over Europe, the US, Colombia, Near East and Far East.
