Orchestra

SKU: HL.14019121

For Orchestra. Composed by Magnus Lindberg. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2003. 84 pages. Chester Music #CH61348. Published by Chester Music (HL.14019121).

ISBN 9781844492954. 9.0x12.0x0.303 inches.

Commissione d by the first Sibelius Conductor's Competition held in Helsinki in May 1995, as an obligatory piece to be rehearsed by all the competitors, Arena was performed in its totality at the annual Avanti! Chamber Orchestra's festival in Porvoo (Finland). Thematic thinking has never been a main feature in Lindberg's music, but here horizontal lines (one would not yet dare to call them melodies) gain some independence, for example in ornamental figures and in the intense cello solo around the middle of the piece. Arena also reveals some clearly new material - Lindberg has talked about Beethoven-like formal thinking, referring to a passage where the sense of movement seems to accelerate to an extreme so that finally one perceives only a motionless surface. Another new element - which was already used to some extent at the warmly hovering ending of Aura - is the almost romantic sound world and the suspension of the harmonies in the final climax, which can make one think of Mahler and Berg, or Lindberg's grand predecessor and compatriot, Sibelius. This is the Score, published by Chester Music; the duration of the pieces is approximately 16 minutes.

Piano, organ

SKU: FG.55011-826-3

Composed by Olli Kortekangas. Classical, contemporary. Score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-826-3. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-826-3).

ISBN 9790550118263.

Olli Kortekangas composed Vida vingar (Swedish for Wide wings) for piano and organ in 2021-2022. It was premiered in S:t John's Church in Helsinki, Finland - with 70 metres' distance between the two instruments.

This product includes one playing score with the both instruments parts. For a performance two copies are needed.

Guitar

SKU: FG.55011-522-4

Composed by Harri Vuori. Fennica Gehrman #55011-522-4. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-522-4).

ISBN 9790550115224.

Harr i Vuori's Chiroptera (2017) for guitar embraces the instrument with several compositional solutions born from the attributes of the guitar. Dedicated to Patrik Kleemola this 12 minutes work is devided in three movements. The textures of Chiroptera are complex but their build-up, fade-out, measuring and timing of these changes is clearly defined and understandable. According to the composer the name Chiroptera has the same beautiful sound as the composition in whole. In addition he currently lives in an area populated with lots of bats both in the woods and in the atticks. Harri Vuori (b. 1957) studied composition with Paavo Heininen, Eero Hameenniemi and Einojuhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy. He has been composer in residence of the Hyvinkaa Orchestra since 1997 and has taught in the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki since 1993. HIs guitar concerto Ctulhu's Dreams (2016) based on the Ctulhu mythology by H.P. Lovecraft was commissioned by the Lappeenranta City Orchestra and premiered in 2016.

Wind quintet

SKU: FG.55011-296-4

Composed by Kirmo Lintinen. Set of parts. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-296-4).

ISBN 9790-55011-296-4.

T his work was premiered by Idee Fixe Wind Quintet in Helsinki in January 2010. The first movement is a four-voiced canon, the second a fantastic variation on one tone: F-sharp/G-flat. Danza, the last movement further develops the thematic material from Canon. The duration of the work is ca. 12 minutes.

Violin, piano

SKU: FG.55011-754-9

Viulusonaatti. By Walter Wolff. By Yrjö Kilpinen. Classical. Book. Fennica Gehrman #55011-754-9. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-754-9).

ISBN 9790550117549.

Yrjà ƒÂ¶ Kilpinen (1892-1959) is most known for his hundreds of lieds and song cycles. His instrumental compositions have been less know, ie. the six piano sonatas and suite for gamba and piano. Large-scale Sonata for violin and piano is dated in 1935 with opus number 87. The work was never finished, and National Library in Helsinki holds several sketches and versions in its Kilpinen collection.

In 2015 violinist Frida Backman commissioned a completion of the Sonata from composer Walter Wolff. Wolff worked on the sketches and versions until 2018, when the work was completed and the Sonata premiered.

The present publication is the first publication of the Sonata. It sheds light to Kilpinen as an instrumental composer.

The movements are: Allegro - Andante - Andante Moderato - Allegro

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Yrjö Kilpinen (1892-1959) tunnetaan lähinnä lied-sävellyksistäà ƒÂ¤n, joita aktiivisina sävellysvuosina syntyikin satoja. Vähemmälle huomiolle ovat jääneet hänen instrumentaalisävellyk sensä, mm. kuusi pianosonaattia, sellosonaatti, sarja gamballe ja pianolle sekä muutamat pikkukappaleet.

Vuodelle 1935 päivätty neliosainen, laajamuotoinen sonaatti viululle ja pianolle (op. 87) jäi keskeneräiseksi. Suomen Kansalliskirjaston Kilpinen-kokoelmassa oli useita luonnoksia ja eri versioita. Sonaatin osista neljäs oli keskeneräisin.

Viulutaiteilija Frida Backman tilasi konserttiaan varten sonaatin täydennöksen säveltäjä Walter Wolffilta. Hän sai työnsä päätöksen 2018, jonka jälkeen sonaatti kantaesitettiin.

Fennica Gehrmanin julkaisu on sonaatin ensipainos, ja siten laajentaa kuvaamme Yrjö Kilpisestä instrumenttiteosten säveltäjänä.

Teoksen osat: Allegro - Andante - Andante Moderato - Allegro.

By Timo-Juhani Kyllonen. For SSAA choir and percussion. Published by Fennica Gehrman .

SKU: HL.50605288

For Soprano and String Quartet. Composed by Kaija Saariaho. Score. Softcover. 12 pages. Duration 240 seconds. Chester Music #CH88089. Published by Chester Music (HL.50605288).

ISBN 9781705174593. UPC: 196288095736. 9.0x12.0x0.081 inches.

This arrangement of Die Aussicht, for soprano and string quartet, was first performed in August 2019 during the Creative Dialogue Workshop at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland.

4 horns

SKU: FG.55011-475-3

Little Quartet for Four Horn op 185. Composed by Erkki Melartin. Score and parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-475-3. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-475-3).

ISBN 9790550114753.

The Little Quartet for Four Horns op. 185 by Erkki Melartin was commissioned by the progenitor of Finnish horn playing, Holger Fransman (1909-1997). The Helsinki Music Institute's horn class received this three movement quartet from their principal for the spring concert in May 1936. A composition for four French horns was a rarity in 1930s Finland. The quartet was performed for decades as Holger Fransman's arrangement. This edition is based on the original version of the composer.

Piano and orchestra

SKU: FG.55011-372-5

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Study score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-372-5. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-372-5).

ISBN 9790550113725.

Imag es of the sea figure prominently throughout my life and memories: from holidays on the Atlantic coast during my Canadian childhood to my current Baltic home, and the imagined, only later experienced Mediterranean of my ancestral heritage. As an immigrant (son of an immigrant) bound to two northern countries, the sea is emblematic of my twin homelands, from the expanses of water surrounding them to those separating them. A Mari usque ad Mare. The sea is also an enduring image of the unknown, of expanses unexplored, of the raw power of nature and, for too many currently, of terror holding a hope of refuge - or the pain of loss.
Such disparate ideas were captured for me in the seascapes of the New York painter MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom I met in 2008 during a residency on the Gulf of Mexico. Her vast, abstract, nearly monochromatic depictions of imaginary seas in wildly varying moods were the catalyst for a concerto where the piano is frequently far from a hero battling a collective, but rather acts as a channel for elemental forces surging up from the orchestra, floating - sometimes barely so - on its constantly shifting surface. There are few themes to speak of, beyond a handful of iconic ideas that periodically cycle upward. Rather, the piano's material is largely an ornamentation of the more primal rhythmic and harmonic impulses from the orchestra below - a poetic interpretation, if you will, of the more immediate experience of facing the vastness of some unknown body of water.
The title Nameless Seas is borrowed from one of Thielhelm's exhibitions, as are those of the four movements, which are bridged together into two halves of roughly equal weight - one rhapsodic and free, the other more single-minded and direct, separated only by a short breath. The opening movement, Nocturne, is predominantly calm, if brooding, darkness and light alternating throughout. Lyrical arabesques sparkle over gently lapping cross-currents in the strings and mirrored timpani, the piano's full power only rarely deployed. The waves gradually build, drawing in the full orchestra for a meeting of forces in Land and Sea, a brighter, more warmly lyrical scene that unfolds in series of dreamlike, sometimes even nostalgic visions, which for me carry strong memories of sitting on rocks above surging Atlantic waves. The third movement, Wake, is a fast, perpetual-motion texture of glinting, darting rhythms and sudden shafts of light, with a prominent part for the steel drums, limning the piano's quicksilver figurations. An ecstatic climax crashes into a solo cadenza that grows progressively calmer and more introspective rather than virtuosic. Much of the tension finally releases into Unclaimed Waters, a drifting, meditative seascape in which the piano is progressively engulfed by a series of ever-taller waves, ultimately dissolving into a tolling, rippling continuum of sound.
It has been a great privilege to realize such a long-held dream as this piece, and to write it for not one, but two great pianists. Risto-Matti Marin and Angela Hewitt, both of whose friendship and support have been unfailing and humbling, share the dedication. Nameless Seas was commissioned by the PianoEspoo festival and Canada's National Arts Centre, with the premieres in Ottawa and Helsinki led by Hannu Lintu and Olari Elts. Thanks are due also to the Jenny and Antti Wihuri fund, whose generous grant provided me with much-needed time, and Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida, the source to which I returned to do a large part of the work.

Mixed choir

SKU: FG.55011-568-2

Composed by Alex Freeman. Fennica Gehrman #55011-568-2. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-568-2).

ISBN 9790550115682.

The texts of Alex Freeman's Calle sin nombre for mixed choir (2019) are drawn from quotations of families seeking asylum who are victims of the policies of family separation aggressively and abruptly enacted by the administration of President Donald John Trump. These desperate words tread with bare feet across shards of fragmented lines from Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus (the iconic poem enshrined at the base of The Statue of Liberty). A rehearsal reduction for piano is included in the publication. Alex Freeman (b. 1972) grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Around the age of 13 he became interested in composing. In 1998 he moved to New York to begin his Doctoral studies at the Juilliard School, studying with Christopher Rouse. The focus of his doctoral document led him to Finland. The recipient of a Fulbright Full Fellowship, he moved to Helsinki in 2001 to research Sibelius's sketches and study composition with Eero Hameenniemi at the Sibelius Academy. Dr. Freeman is currently composing full-time and lives with his wife and children in Finland.

Violin, piano

SKU: FG.55011-502-6

Composed by Paavo Heininen. Fennica Gehrman #55011-502-6. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-502-6).

ISBN 9790550115026.

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. 1938) turned his impressions of Boston into violin sonatas op. 134 (2016). All the three sonatas - Boston Sonata, Boston Variations and Boston Ballade - were premiered in one concert in Helsinki celebrating the composer's 80th birthday in May 2018 by Kaija Saarikettu (violin) and Juhani Lagerspetz (piano).

Brass Band - Grade 2

SKU: BT.DHP-0981111-030

Composed by Johan Nijs. Applause Series. Festive and Solemn Music. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 1998. De Haske Publications #DHP 0981111-030. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-0981111-030).

For this composition he Flemish composer Johan Nijs takes his inspiration from people and events in his life. It was written for the birth and is dedicated to his daughter ‘Laurena’. It’s beautiful simple melodic lines makes it a perfect item to ‘bring a little peace and calm any concert.

De Vlaamse componist Johan Nijs componeert veel over mensen en gebeurtenissen uit zijn nabije omgeving. Zo schreef hij Santa Pepita als huwelijksgeschenk voor zijn vrouw. De compositie Laurena heeft hij opgedragen aan zijndochtertje. Het werk kenmerkt zich door eenvoudige en lieflijke melodielijnen.

Der flämische Komponist Johan Nijs schöpft seine musikalische Inspiration häufig aus Geschehnissen in seiner näheren Umgebung. so ist zum Beispiel bekannt, dass er das Werk Santa Pepita als Hochzeitsgeschenk für seine zukünftige Ehefrau komponierte. Seine neue Komposition Laurena widmete er seiner neugeborenen Tochter. Charakteristisch für diese Komposition sind die einfachen und lieblichen Melodielinien.

Le compositeur flamand Johan Nijs aime se laisser inspirer par des événements dans son environnement immédiat. En guise de cadeau de mariage, il dédia son épouse, la composition intitulée Santa Pepita tandis que son œuvre Laurena est dédiée sa fille. Les lignes mélodiques de cette œuvre possèdent un charme éthéré.

By Tarik O'Regan. For Choral (TTBB). Music Sales America. 40 pages. Novello and Co Ltd. #NOV955350. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.

Orchestra (Study Score)

SKU: HL.48024683

Orchestra Study Score. Composed by Magnus Lindberg. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical. Softcover. 144 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060135880. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024683).

ISBN 9781784545062. UPC: 888680952570. 8.25x11.75 inches.

TEMPUS FUGIT was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Finnish independence on 6 December 2017 and it received its first performance in Helsinki on that day, given by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The composer says that “if you translate TEMPUS FUGIT as 'Time Flies', you could say that Finland has travelled a long way already -but 100 years is a short time-span, and living as a human in this part of the world started long ago and, we hope, will continue formillennia to come. This relates to my fascination with Bernd Alois Zimmermann's concept of spherical time - that the past, the present and the future are continuously linked and within reach. You can also examine the inter-connection of musical time in the earlier works of Stockhausen such as Kontakte and Gruppen which had a big impact on me as a young composer. A translation of TEMPUS FUGIT that I prefer is 'Time in Flight', offering the idea that time escapes from us but bequeaths a tangible residue, rather like aplane travelling towards the distance but leaving a visible vapour trail.” This 30-minute score is a major addition to the orchestral repertory.

Voice, Piano

SKU: FG.042-08585-1

Composed by Armas Jarnefelt. Edited by Matti Tuloisela. Album. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08585-1).

ISBN 979-0-042-08585-1.

The collection of the main solo songs by Armas Jarnefelt was accelerated by a donation made by his son, Arvi, in Stockholm to the University of Helsinki: dozens of previously unpublished manuscripts thus found their way home to Finland. Sweden was father Jarnefelt's second home, since he spent a couple of decades as conductor of the Royal Opera in Stockholm. He concentrated almost exclusively on solo songs, the reason no doubt being that his father-in-law was Jean Sibelius, a master of large-scale form. Jarnefelt's vocal lyrics spring from the National-Romantic ethos nurtured on the archaic rune-singing of the national epic, the Kalevala, and the distant lands of Karelia. The folk-like elements of his youthful songs were in time joined by Impressionistic and in places even Expressionistic timbres. This collection is edited by Matti Tuloisela. Contents: Aallon kehtolaulu / Vagens vaggsang / Der Welle Wiegenlied * Am stillen Dorfe erhebt sich * Berceuse / Kehtolaulu * En spel- och dansvisa * Hamara / Skymning / Dammerung * I solnedgangen / Im Sonnenuntergang * Isanmaan kasvot * Kanteleelle * Kehtolaulu / Vaggsang (Liekku liiku) * Kehtolaulu / Vaggsang (Hiljaa, hiljaa) * Laula, laula! * Leivo / Larkan * Liina / Lina / Line * Milloin muistelet minua? / Sag, nar minnes du mig? / Sag', gedenkst Du meiner? * Nar alla klockor klamtat tolf / Wenn alle Uhren zwolf geschlagen * Sina / Du * Solsken / Sonnenschein * Sunnuntaina / Sondag * Suvirannalla / Sommarnatt pa stranden * Titania * Toivoni / Onskan * Uneksijan laulu elamalle / En drommarens sang till livet / Eines Traumers Sang an das Leben * Unelma / Drom * Viel' ois virtta tieossani / An en visa vill jag sjunga.

Composed by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). For mixed choir. Octavo. Published by Fennica Gehrman

Violin and piano

SKU: FG.55011-177-6

Composed by Jyrki Linjama. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-177-6).

ISBN 979-0-55011-177-6.

Linjama's new work was commissioned by Kaija Saarikettu and premiered on 3 June 20114 in Helsinki by Kaija Saarikettu (violin) and Sonja Fraki (piano).

SKU: BR.SON-621

Composed by Jean Sibelius. Edited by Anna Pulkkis. Linen. Complete Works.

Chamber music by Jean Sibelius - a welcome addition to the chamber music repertoire for strings with piano.

Late-romantic; Early modern. Complete Works. 352 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 621. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-621).

ISBN 9790004803233. 9 x 12 inches.

This volume presents partly less known, but undoubtedly interesting and highly welcome additions to the chamber music repertoire for violinists and cellists in the reliable Urtext of the Complete Edition. The violin was Sibelius's instrument. He was active as a violinist mainly during his studies at the Helsinki Music Institute from 1885-1889 and for a short time thereafter. The present volume contains Jean Sibelius's opus-numbered works for violin or cello and piano, 36 compositions in total. Most of the works of this volume were created at the beginning of the 20th century and remained unpublished until the early 1920s. Sibelius composed far less music for the cello than for the violin. Malinconia (Op. 20), published in 1911, remained his only opus-numbered work exclusively for cello and piano. This volume also includes Two Pieces (Op. 77) and Four Pieces (Op. 78) as versions for violin with piano and for cello with piano.

Chamber music by Jean Sibelius - a welcome addition to the chamber music repertoire for strings with piano.