Nordic Highlights 3/2020

Juhani Nuorvala is Composer of the Year at the Rusk Festival in Pietarsaari from 17 to 21 November 2020. The programme includes arias from his opera Flash Flash, Boost for cello and synthesiser and the Quaedam variationes ex “Bene quondam” for strings. New Nuorvala publications are availabe in our web shop: Boost (playing score) and Variationes ex 'Bene quondam' (study score).

New Antti Auvinen release
Ondine Records is releasing a CD of orchestral music by Antti Auvinen in November. Junker Twist was premiered by the Finnish RSO in 2015 (see the concert in YLE Areena). Together with Himmel Punk it marked the countdown to Auvinen’s musical take-off. The third work on the disc is Turbo Aria (see in YLE Areena). The FRSO is conducted on the new disc by Hannu Lintu.

Lotta Wennäkoski & the Danish String Quartet
Lotta Wennäkoski is one of the four composers in a 4-year international commissioning project  initiated by the Danish String Quartet. The project pairs new works by Bent Sørensen, Wennäkoski, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Thomas Adès with Schubert’s chamber music. Lotta’s commission is scheduled to premiere at Carnegie Hall in April 2022 and in Europe in September 2022.

Choral works by Alex Freeman
Three choral works by Alex Freeman are now available in our web shop: Calle sin nombre (Street without a Name), Cathedral of Spring and I Feel the Same Way.

You can browse smaller-sized Finnish works in this spreadsheet by different categories.

Below you will also find exciting repertoire tips which we have presented in earlier issues of Highlights:
Female composers
Works for ensemble
Fresh concert starters
Music for percussion
21th century works for strings
Solo concertos for brass instruments
Music for Christmas
Works for descant choir
Nordic works for guitar
Music for children
Encore pieces for orchestra
Wind and brass ensembles       
Chamber operas  
Concertos for several soloists or concertante groups
Concert pieces for organ
21th century works for mixed choir
Works for ensemble
Song cycles
Works for trumpet and orchestra
21st century works for solo piano
Works for saxophone and orchestra
Works for chamber orchestra
Chamber music with piano
Some 21st century symphonies
Works for wind and brass bands
Choral works with orchestra
Cello concertos
Selected piano concertos
Gems for voice and orchestra
21th century string quartets
Choral highlights
Violin concertos
Works for string orchestra
Nordic clarinet concertos
Fresh concert starters