Kolme laulua Helvi Juvosen teksteihin.

According to Paavo Heininen, his sonata for piccolo associates in his mind with Schroeder from the Peanuts comic strip. He plays a toy grand piano crouching on the floor and responding to the sound of a tiny flute from above...

All of Heininen's sonatas have different characters that are informed by the force fields created by classic solos and melodies in orchestral repertoire. There is also a certain encyclopaedic nature to the sonata cycle; many have been composed to various instruments...

All of Heininen's sonatas have different characters that are informed by the force fields created by classic solos and melodies in orchestral repertoire. There is also a certain encyclopaedic nature to the sonata cycle; many have been composed to various instruments...

All of Heininen's sonatas have different characters that are informed by the force fields created by classic solos and melodies in orchestral repertoire. There is also a certain encyclopaedic nature to the sonata cycle; many have been composed to various instruments...

Preludes, etudes and poems are like a planetarium with points of light twinkling in every direction." The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen's (b. 1938) extensive output for piano expands with a comprehensive four-part collection of etydes (Etydes op...

"Preludes, etudes and poems are like a planetarium with points of light twinkling in every direction." The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen's (b. 1938) extensive output for piano expands with a comprehensive four-part collection of etydes (Etydes op...

"Preludes, etudes and poems are like a planetarium with points of light twinkling in every direction." The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen's (b. 1938) extensive output for piano expands with a comprehensive four-part collection of etydes (Etydes op...

"Preludes, etudes and poems are like a planetarium with points of light twinkling in every direction." The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen's (b. 1938) extensive output for piano expands with a comprehensive four-part collection of etydes (Etydes op...

"Even though I was and remain a proponent of absolute music, the things that we see and experience inevitably colour and energise our thought processes." The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen (b...

"Even though I was and remain a proponent of absolute music, the things that we see and experience inevitably colour and energise our thought processes." The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen (b...

"Even though I was and remain a proponent of absolute music, the things that we see and experience inevitably colour and energise our thought processes." The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen (b...

This enchanting 8-minute work for saxophone quartet from 1996 derives from Heininen's big band work "Wolfstock". Fast and rhytmically expressive first movement "Pup" is like a musical portrait of puppies playing about...

Abend (Gryphius) - Herbsttag (Rilke) - Hälfte des Lebens (Hölderlin)

Ikuista lempeä (Kramsu) - Angoscia (Ikävyys) (Koskenniemi) - Miksi laulan (Nieminen)

This substantial choral work was completed in 1970. Its succinct and atmospheric text is based on haiku poetry by Basho and other Japanese poets, in the original and in English translation. Musically it takes the form of a theme and variations with interludes,...

This quartet forms part of a major opus whose different works make use of the same tone row matrix characterised by the harmonic interval of a third. Contrasting with the aggressive, expansive piano sonata which also belongs to the opus, its nostalgic...