Fragmentos de la vida del mar - Homenaje a Joaquin Turina has a dark, brooding quality, the use of tremolo often with a ponticello colour creating a mystery and unease, perhaps even depicting a storm on the horizon...

Nieminen has an intense awareness of colours, and the possibilities of expressing these on the classical guitar, an instrument on which he is himself a fine performer. This piece is Nieminen's touching tribute to Segovia...

Having spent his early years living in the southern part of Finland, when he was 9, Kai Niemiminen's family then moved to Ylitornio which is in the western part of Lapland, not very far from the Arctic Circle...

The inspiration for this work is Bruno Munari's paintings, displayed at Museo del Novecento in Milan and characterised by swirling lines enveloping torn-out music scores, suggested the mysterious atmosphere of this piece and the subheading Un telegramma...

Julvers, a poem written by Pekka Suhonen at the Villa Lante in Rome on Christmas Eve 1992, inspired Kai Nieminen to compose a piece of the same name describing the city's myriad lights as seen from the windows of the Villa high on its hill...

Kai Nieminen has an intense awareness of colours, and the possibilities of expressing these on the classical guitar, an instrument on which he is himself a fine performer. Estampes - Frank Martin in Memoriam demands a more orchestral approach from the performer...

Night Sonata is a guitar suite consisting of three pieces: 1. Night Preludes - Hommage à Joan Miró, 2. Gnomes of the Night - Hommage à Marc Chagall, 3. Night Poems in a Clockshop - Hommage à Salvador Dali...

Assonata by Kai Nieminen dates from 1982. It is a joyful exploration of clarinet's possibilities; cascades, flatterzunge, large jumps from one end of the compass to the other are thorougly charted. The work's duration is ca...

Shades around Stonehenge is an ambitious solo guitar work by Kai Nieminen in four movements that illustrates his poetic vision of the instrument. Through his writing, the guitar is an extremely versatile instrument, rich in colour shades, able to imitate...

Kai Nieminen's music has been described as "often constructed according to a narrative logic, as fantasy journeys in imaginary or dream-like worlds". Most of his works have an extra-musical stimulus, alluded to in their titles...

Kai Nieminen's music has been described as "often constructed according to a narrative logic, as fantasy journeys in imaginary or dream-like worlds". Most of his works have an extra-musical stimulus, alluded to in their titles...