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...

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...

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...

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 Niemisen soolokitarateos ”Northern Spells” (pohjoisia loitsuja), yhdistää ainutlaatuisella tavalla pohjoista mystiikkaa, luontoa ja ikivanhoja rituaaleja. Teoksen avausosassa ”Invocation and Spell” (Manaus ja Loitsu), on hyvin mystinen tunnelma, johon...

Riflessioni sul nome Amedeo Modigliani (Omaggio a Oscar Ghiglia) is divided in two movements that follow each other attacca. The first movement of the piece is named by the composer …Il Pittore…sta…dipingendo… (…the painter…is…painting…)...

The Temple - Igor Stravinsky in memoriam is a work of wide musical contrasts and varying atmospheres. It explores the tonal range of the guitar superbly, and makes much use of the pizzicato or etouffé effext...

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 captures impressionistic qualities of the Scandinavian summer and the midnight sun...

The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings (Hommage à Miró) pianolle sai inspiraationsa Joan Mirón samannimisestä taulusta vuodelta 1953. Siinä sarkasmi ja leikkisyys kohtaavat eri värien vastakohdissa ja kontrastoivassa viivan käytössä...

In this one-movement concerto the flute is a highly adaptable soloist: at times a whispering breath on a starry sky, at others an arctic bird soaring above a winter landscape, taking startled flight on spotting a human figure...