Contents
Video and audio links
Seppo Pohjola:
String Quartet No. 4
String Quartet No. 3
Kalevi Aho:
Sieidi
Symphonic Dances (starts at 3:50)
Antti Auvinen: Turbo Aria (starts at 6:20)
Esa Pietilä: Asterion
Hannu Pohjannoro: Images, hommages
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Action-Passion-Illusion
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Vigilia (All-Night Vigil)
Nordic Highlights 1/2020
Highlights is our newsletter focusing on classical and contemporary music from the Nordic countries. You can download the most recent Highlights and find here in-depth material of music presented in it.
More about Matthew Whittall
Read more about the composer
on www.fennicagehrman.fi
The return of joy - read a previous article (2015) about Whittall
Sound and video clips:
Nameless Seas
The Return of Light
Leaves of Grass: Wine-dark Sea
See the scores:
The Return of Light
Nameless Seas (Piano Concerto)
Northlands for horn and orchestra
The Heaven That Dwells So Deep
Satu Simola: Hiiri (The Mouse)
A story for narrator and chamber orchestra (or ensemble)
The Mouse is a musical fairytale about a mouse who lives alone inside a monster machine as a protection from the world. However, inside the machine the mouse feels lonely. One day a paradise bird lands on the machine and the mouse has to choose whether he will chase it away or if he will open up to friendship.
The Mouse is composed for children as a family concert experience. The story proceeds with narration and the material includes pictures that can be projected onto the stage.
Read the story (in Finnish)
Read the story (in English)
See the score