Pedagogical orchestral music

Four Season at Finns was composed for the chamber music camp at Finns, Espoo, where Harri Wessman (b. 1949) was the composer-in-residence for many years. A frisky, happy new music for as many violins and violas (both in unison) as possible accompanied...

Ida Moberg (1859-1947) was the first widely educated female Finnish composer. Born in Helsinki she grew up in a musical family and studied singing and piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Later the studies continued: composing and singing at the...

Sibelius's beloved Andante festivo in a new Urtext edition. Andante festivo for string orchestra is among the last works Sibelius prepared for publication. The original version for string quartet in 1922, but in 1938 he arranged the work for string orchestra and timpani ad lib...

Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Souvenir for solo violin and string ensemble dates from 1929. It is as a melodically expressive, small-scale counterpart for chamber...

Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed Finnish orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. Valses lentes et amoureuses consists of two waltzes and dates from 1932. It is one of the most graceful pieces of salon music ever composed by Uuno Klami...

Sibelius composed the Kanteletar Rakastava texts first for male choir in 1894, he then added a string orchestra to the male choir, and finally, he made a version for mixed choir in 1898. In 1911-1912 he returned to Rakastava and arranged it for string orchestra, timpani and triangle as op...

Sibelius's beloved Andante festivo in a new Urtext edition. Andante festivo for string orchestra is among the last works Sibelius prepared for publication. The original version for string quartet in 1922, but in 1938 he arranged the work for string orchestra and timpani ad lib...

New edition (2020) of Einojuhani Rautavaara's (1928-2016) Divertimento for string orchestra is based on the composer's manuscript, incorporating corrections and comments by composer's hand in various sources...

Nordgren's music has been influenced by a lifelong interest in folk music. Local folk tradition figures prominently in his early output and studies in Japan led to cross-cultural explorations of oriental and western instrumentations...