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 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...

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...

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...

A popular song cycle which includes three songs to texts by Emily Dickinson. 1. Its Like the Light, 2. A Little Road Not Made of Man & 3. On This Wondrous Sea. Emily Dickinsonin teksteihin perustuva suosittu, kolmiosainen laulusarja...

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...

Kai Nieminen's Fragmental Reflections (2018) draws on the melancholy mood of the Finnish folk song Tein mina pillin pajupuusta (I made a willow whistle) familiar to most Finns. The emotional scale of this 10-minute guitar fantasy ranges from a nostalgic...

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...

Kai Nieminen writes: "Unlike its sister work Time Around Spring for orchestra (1997) (In memoriam Timo K. Mukka), Time Around Autumn explores the mental images of the ensemble's 12 musicians, about the autumn, melancholy and freedom; as a counterpoint to the freedom an exact rhythmic pulse emerges...

Finnish composer Kai Nieminen (1953-) has written four pieces for organ published here for the first time. From Winter'sNight, Temple II, Preghiera (di Francesco di Assisi), and Pre-Inter-Post are pieces inspired by the organ writing traditionand by the Finnish nature...

Canti Notturnali for cello and guitar has two movements played attacca, duration about 12-13 minutes. The harmonic and melodic material uses mainly the scale build from the open strings of both instruments...

This piano trio, Reflecting Landscapes by Kai Nieminen was composed in 2011 for Trio la Rue. The piece was inspired by poem "A, Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson. Kai Niemisen pianotrio Reflecting Landscapes on sävelletty vuonna 2011 Trio la Ruelle...

The music of Finnish composer Kai Nieminen (b. 1953) does not conform to any “isms”. He remarks: “I feel like I am a painter in music, who having seen or experienced something attempts to give that something a shape in music...

Kitarasonaatti A Walk to the Mysterious Woods (2012-13) on säveltäjän omalle soittimelleen sävelletyistä teoksista laajin tähän mennessä. Niemisen musiikille ominainen virtuoottisen herkkä sointikontrolli asettaa esittäjän tekniset ja runolliset kyvyt koetukselle...

Kai Niemisen (s. 1953) kitarateoksessa Quadri Morandi (2014) yhdistyy kaksi hänen säveltäjyydessään keskeistä ilmiötä: kitara ja Italiasta ammennettu aihepiiri. Kitaran vahva läsnäolo hänen tuotannossaan on sikäli luontevaa, että hän esiintyy itse aktiivisena...