Sheet music for Kalevi Aho: Flute Concerto: buy online. 55011-517-0, € 24,50 Buy now, 07.06.2019 16 Silence (Hiljaisuus) Chamber Symphony No. 14 (Rituals) (Incantation III, Mantra of the Ending), Symphony No. 1 in G minor. Kalevi Aho: The Flight of the Bumble-Bee for flute and orchestra (2') 2222-2220-10-str Hire material, inquiries hire@fennicagehrman.fi He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Einojuhani Rautavaara and in West Berlin in Boris Blacher’s composition class. Osmo Vänskä(BIS Records CD-1066), Symphony No. Browse the publications in our web shop at Kirjavalitys. 3Clarinet ConcertoConcerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra 'The Bells'Concerto for Bassoon and OrchestraFlute ConcertoTheremin Concerto 'Acht Jahreszeiten'/'Eight Seasons' Sieidi (Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra) Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Chamber OrchestraGejia - Chinese Images for OrchestraContrapunctus XIV (J.S.Bach)MearraMinea, About the concerto project (Highlights 2/2012)Gramophone 2/2013 by David FanningThe man behind the music (Highlights 1/2009). Inspired by the last, unfinished work, by Alexander Scriabin, Mysterium is a piano quintet dedicated to pianist Izumi Tateno. It comprises 3 movements played without a break. He commenced violin studies at the age of ten, and his first compositions date from this time. Solo part & piano reduction 55011-591-0, € 43,50 Buy nowStudy score 55009-634-9, € 56,40 Buy now, 28.04.2020 Aho's oeuvre also includes two double concertos: for two cellos (commissioned by the BBC and premiered in Manchester in 2004) and for French horn and harp (commissioned by the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in 2015). Sheet music for Kalevi Aho: Quintet: buy online. Finnish Music Information Centre. Fennica Gehrman, Helsinki, Finland. 15 (2009-10) commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic and the Lahti Symphony, and Symphony No. 13 "Symphonic Characterizations", Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra 'The Bells', Theremin Concerto 'Acht Jahreszeiten'/'Eight Seasons', About the concerto project (Highlights 2/2012), listen to Esa Pietilä's insights about the concerto, listen to the LPO/Colin Currie podcast about the concerto. In the opera the atmosphere varies from dreamy to wild carnival moods and there is also some heated argument and sharp political parody. Latest publications, Kalevi Aho has continued composing his popular Solo pieces for different instruments. It consists of short, exquisite questions which force the reader to look at things from an entirely new perspective. In 1982 and 1984 The Key was also performed by the Hamburg State Opera. Composed in 2018 it was premiered in October 2019 by Simon Reitmaier in Tirol, Austria. Osmo Vänskä(BIS Records CD-1336), Symphony No. © Fennica GehrmanPO Box 158FI-00121 HelsinkiFinland, Kalevi Aho: Sateen aikaan (Rain Time) - Five songs for mezzo-soprano and string quartet, Kalevi Aho: Mysterium - Quintet for piano left hand and string quartet, Kalevi Aho: Sonata for violoncello and piano, Kalevi Aho: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, Kalevi Aho: Concerto for piano and string orchestra (Piano Concerto No. Aho selected some of the texts for this 24-minute song cycle (2006) and combined their Finnish translation (by Katja Kallio) into eleven sets of questions. 55011-488-3, € 13,40 Buy now, 27.08.2019 There is lots of singing, lyrical music at the beginning and end of this three-movement work. Fennica Gehrman is the leading publisher of classical and contemporary music in Finland. Kalevi Aho is represented by Boosey & Hawkes in the UK, Eire, Germany, the USA, Mexico and the British Commonwealth (excluding South Africa). 9 for trombone and orchestra (I Presto), Symphony No. His primary publisher is Fennica Gehrman. The Symphonic Dances (Hommage à Uuno Klami) was composed in 2001 as the third act of Uuno Klami’s ballet Pyörteitä (Whirls) and the recording by BIS has scored great international success. The 32-minute concerto is a large-scale virtuoso work dominated by the soloist. 14 (Rituals) (Incantation III, Mantra of the Ending)Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, cond. Osmo Vänskä, sol. Latest publications, Kalevi Aho's popular series of Solo pieces for different instruments gets a new piece for harp. Scored for piano left hand and string quartet, Kalevi Aho's Mysterium (2019) consists of four movements performed without a break. Fennica Gehrman publishes works by leading contemporary Finnish composers such as Kalevi Aho, Mikko Heiniö and Olli Kortekangas. Aho, Kalevi – Fennica German. Herman Rechberger(BIS Records CD-1686), Symphonic Dances (I Prelude)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. 3Clarinet ConcertoConcerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra 'The Bells'Concerto for Bassoon and OrchestraFlute ConcertoTheremin Concerto 'Acht Jahreszeiten'/'Eight Seasons' Sieidi (Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra) Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Chamber OrchestraGejia - Chinese Images for OrchestraContrapunctus XIV (J.S.Bach)MearraMinea, About the concerto project (Highlights 2/2012)Gramophone 2/2013 by David FanningThe man behind the music (Highlights 1/2009). 16 commissioned by YLE and premiered by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2015. 2 for strings (1991-92) we hear, in a sense, the music of the composer’s inner voices. FAQ; Help; Delivery Rates; Contact Us; Our Stores During the 90s Aho concentrated primarily on opera, symphonies, chamber music as well as instrumental solo pieces, and his concerto production was not resumed until the beginning of the new millennium with the elegiac and cantabile Tuba Concerto (2000-01). The work was premiered with great success by the Finnish National Opera on 27 September 1996. The Fifth Symphony (1975-76) marks a turning point in Aho’s output. Kalevi Aho on Fennica Gehrman website; Kalevi Aho: On my music and beyond: Advocating for the human touch (FMQ) Listen to Sieid & Symphony No. External links. Fennica Gehrman was formed in order to handle the Finnish part in the best way possible. at Grove Music Online. In the years 1985-87 Aho wrote his sharply satirical second opera Hyönteiselämää (Insect Life), which combines elements both of comedy and of tragedy (the libretto, by the composer himself, is based on a play of the same name by Josef and Karel Capek) and contains numerous stylistic parodies as well as pointed social criticism. Composer: Aho. Kalevi Aho has also composed concertos for such solo instruments as the tuba, the contrabassoon, the soprano saxophone, the tenor saxophone (listen to Esa Pietilä's insights about the concerto), the timpani, the accordeon and the harp. Two years later Aho composed Pergamon for four narrators, four orchestral groups and organ; the text, which is in four languages, is based on Peter Weiss’s novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. Congratulations Petri Kumela - "Small Creatures" is a candidate for the best Finnish classical music album 2020! Soloistic virtuosity is a hallmark of Aho’s large-scale, symphonic concertos for violin (1981), cello (1983-84) and piano (1989), of his three chamber symphonies (in the last of these the solo instrument is the alto saxophone) and of many chamber pieces (e.g. Aho’s first opera, Avain (The Key, 1978, with a libretto by Juha Mannerkorpi) tells of the paranoid alienation of an inhabitant of a big modern city in the estranging social climate of today. In 2013 Aho wrote his fifth opera Frida y Diego to the libretto by Maritza Núñez. Solo part 55009-705-6, € 16,90 Buy now Study score 55011-655-9, € 32,50 Buy now, 18.11.2020 55011-674-0, € 49,90 Buy now, 09.12.2020 The composer tells: “I tried to create a work in which the words and the music were organically one. 55011-496-8, € 13,50 Buy now, 08.06.2020 Osmo Vänskä, sol. John Storgårds, sol. CONTACT OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE ON +44 1284 725 725. The recording of Aho's theremin and horn concertos won the prestigious ECHO Classic Award in 2015 for the best concerto disc of the year. SUPPORT. Colin Currie Symphony No. The piano reduction is made by Kari Vehmanen. "Aho, Kalevi." Thus, in the four-movement First Symphony, we are gradually drawn ever further away from the “existing reality” of the beginning, ultimately reaching the third movement’s strange, pseudo-baroque style, and finally, in the last movement, we can meet the problems of the “true reality” head on. Latest publications, In spring 2006 Kalevi Aho came across the posthumously published The Book of Questions (1974) by Pablo Neruda. The 5,5-minute piece highlights the singing aspect of oboe, Lied is like a long instrumental song.55011-614-6, € 13,50 Buy now, Kalevi Aho’s Flute Concerto (2002) was initially inspired by the magnificent, enigmatic poetry of the Swede Tomas Tranströmer, but the vocal ideas nevertheless adapted themselves to the flute. The Symphonic Dances (Hommage à Uuno Klami) was composed in 2001 as the third act of Uuno Klami’s ballet Pyörteitä (Whirls) and the recording by BIS has scored great international success. If you are looking for repertoire, please order your copy from info(at)fennicagehrman.fi. Acclaim for Kalevi Aho CD . It was premiered in London by Martin Fröst in 2006 and is one of the best known and most beloved concertos by Aho. It communicates with special creaks, also heard in the composition. 7 "Insect SymphonySymphony No. Kalevi Aho, one of Finland’s leading composers of today, was born in Forssa in southern Finland on 9th March 1949. Two fast movements frame the slower, cantabile-like middle movement.Score & parts 55011-616-0, € 27,50 Buy now, 26.08.2020 Aho, Kalevi, $32.40 Fennica Gehrman Score: Bläserquintett Nr. The virtuoso and colourful Sixth Symphony (1979-80) concludes a sequential line of development in Aho’s symphonic work; after this, the composer concentrated for a while on concertos and operas. Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer.. Career. 55011-351-0, € 11,90 Buy now. Two years later Aho composed Pergamon for four narrators, four orchestral groups and organ; the text, which is in four languages, is based on Peter Weiss’s novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Einojuhani Rautavaara and in West Berlin in Boris Blacher’s composition class. 2 is scored for a string orchestra comprising just twenty players. 0" was withdrawn. Foremost among Aho’s many writings are the treatises Finnish Music and the Kalevala and Einojuhani Rautavaara as a Symphonist, the collection of essays The Tasks of an Artist in a Post-Modern Society, Art and Reality as well as the books Music of Finland (in collaboration with E. Salmenhaara, P. Jalkanen and K. Virtamo) and Uuno Klami – Life and Works (in collaboration with Marjo Valkonen, 2000). The brochure about Kalevi Aho's orchestral works includes articles about his music, notes of his compositions, a work list as well as a sampler CD (most recent works excluded). In 1992 the Lahti Symphony Orchestra appointed Aho as its composer in residence, and he has written all of his more recent orchestral works for these musicians. In the years 1985-87 Aho wrote his sharply satirical second opera Hyönteiselämää (Insect Life), which combines elements both of comedy and of tragedy (the libretto, by the composer himself, is based on a play of the same name by Josef and Karel Capek) and contains numerous stylistic parodies as well as pointed social criticism. 12 (Luosto)Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, Lahti SO.cond. Hybrid SACD (2008) by Aho, Kalevi and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. Kalevi Aho writes on his music and beyond in the FMQ series. Hannu Lintu, sol. The opera was commissioned by the Sibelius Academy and premiered on 17 October 2014 in Helsinki. "Aho, Kalevi." 2)Symphony No. If you are looking for repertoire, please order your copy from info(at)fennicagehrman.fi. Duration 8 minutes. Finnish Music Information Centre. In 2002 followed one of the key works in Aho’s production, the lyrical and melodious Flute Concerto written for Sharon Bezaly; it one of his most often performed works. The piano part is honouring the ‘Beethovenian-Lisztian-Brahmsian’ pianistic tradition. Kalevi Aho in Profile. Sinfonie Nr.12 (Luosto-Sinfonie). 2232-3220-hp-str + banda: 2trp, 1trb, org. Among Aho's many orchestral works are Minea (2008, commissined by the Minnesota Orchestra) and Gejia - Chinese Images for Orchestra (2012, commissioned by the National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing, China). 9 (Sinfonia Concertante No. Kalevi Aho (1949) Before We All Have Drowned Opera in Two Acts (1995/1999) opera in two acts Soloists and orchestra: 1(+picc.)1.heckelphone.2(I+escl.II+clb).altsax. The recording of Aho's theremin and horn concertos won the prestigious ECHO Classic Award in 2015 for the best concerto disc of the year. The virtuosic solo part is written for flute and alto flute, and Kari Vehmanen has created the piano reduction in 2019. The very opening bars already allude to the older master’s most mammoth sonata, the Hammerklavier, op. The song cycle Kiinalaisia lauluja (Chinese Songs, 1997) for soprano and orchestra is a setting of ancient Chinese love poetry. Latest publications, Kalevi Aho’s Clarinet concerto (2005) has five movements played without pause. Music Finland Core | Kalevi Aho. 13 subtitled “Symphonic Characterizations” (2003), Symphony No. 7 (III The Butterflies)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. 55011-574-3, € 14,90 Buy now, 25.03.2020 Hannu Lintu, sol. Latest publications, Kalevi Aho's popular series of Solo pieces for different instruments gets a new piece for clarinet. John Storgårds, sol. They include Symphony No. This is one of the most beautiful works Aho has ever written. Aho, Kalevi, Title -- Click headers to sort -- Composer/Author Price; 19 Preludes For Piano (1965-1968). Published by Fennica Gehrman. Subtitled Symphonic Frescoes, with its 63 minutes, it is s Aho´s longest, and the movements – From the Depth, Scherzo macabre and Distant Songs – can also be performed separately as independent tone poems. 17 was premiered in 2019 by the Sinfonia Lahti, under the direction of the Aho expert Osmo Vänskä. Latest publications, Kalevi Aho's "Solo" series for different instruments gets a new addition with this piece for trombone, which has been a cherished instrument for the composer. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Einojuhani Rautavaara and in West Berlin in Boris Blacher’s composition class. It is founded throughout on six-part Scriabin-like harmonies that also served as a basis for the melodic material. 2), Kalevi Aho: Kysymysten kirja (The Book of Questions) for mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra, Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra (Interlude II and solo cadenza), Symphony No. Aho, Kalevi – Fennica German. The third movement is a cello cadenza, provided in two versions: with and without throat singing. Osmo Vänskä, sol. Kalevi Aho’s Sateen aikaan (Rain Time), five songs for mezzo-soprano and string quartet is set to poems of a Finnish modernist Tuomas Anhava (1927-2001). Duration c. 11 min. "With my works and with the way I write them, I advocate for the human touch in our increasingly cold and technological world," writes composer Kalevi Aho. In the works which marked his breakthrough (the First Symphony, 1969, and Third String Quartet, 1971) Aho continues in the tradition of Shostakovich; even in these pieces, however, he arrived at a very original formal/dramatic decision. Oramo, Ilkka. 14 “Rituals” for darabuka, djembe, gongs and chamber orchestra (2007), Symphony No. Kalevi Aho was born in 1949. 16 Silence (Hiljaisuus) Chamber Symphony No. Kalevi Aho, one of Finland’s leading composers of today, was born in Forssa in southern Finland on 9th March 1949. Soloistic virtuosity is a hallmark of Aho’s large-scale, symphonic concertos for violin (1981), cello (1983-84) and piano (1989), of his three chamber symphonies (in the last of these the solo instrument is the alto saxophone) and of many chamber pieces (e.g. In the opera the atmosphere varies from dreamy to wild carnival moods and there is also some heated argument and sharp political parody. For further information please visit his page at the Fennica Gehrman website. 16 commissioned by YLE and premiered by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2015. Among Aho's many orchestral works are Minea (2008, commissined by the Minnesota Orchestra) and Gejia - Chinese Images for Orchestra (2012, commissioned by the National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing, China). Herman Rechberger(BIS Records CD-1686), Symphonic Dances (I Prelude)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. In the four-movement Third Symphony (1971-73) the dramatic tension is different; it is a conflict between an individual (a solo violin) and the sound blocks of the orchestra; there is a similar conflict in the pessimistic Cello Concerto (1983-84). In the intense Chamber Symphony No. From a structural point of view this massive work is extremely complicated; in this multi-layered symphony, instead of polyphony between various individual instrumental voices, we hear a polyphony of different, independent musical strands. Esa PietiläFlute Concerto (III Epilogue)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. Aho’s other operas include the one-act Salaisuuksien kirja (The Book of Secrets, 1998) to a libretto by Paavo Rintala and the two-act Ennen kuin me kaikki olemme hukkuneet (Before We All Have Drowned, 1995/1999), the libretto of which is based on a radio play by Juha Mannerkorpi. The third movement is a cello cadenza, provided in two versions: with and without throat singing. Latest publications, Kalevi Aho composed the second violin concerto in 2015 for the Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä. Study score: 55011-640-5, € 32,50 Buy now, La Violina for 4 violins introduces technics used in modern music and it is challenging yet not overly difficult for young musicians who are about to start their professional studies. The Theremin Concerto Eight Seasons (2011) was commissioned by the Lapland Chamber Orchestra and premiered in 2012 by Carolina Eyck. The bright, single-movement Symphony No. 8 (1993) for organ and orchestra is Aho’s most expansive instrumental work; this musically wide-ranging piece is one of the fundamental cornerstones of Aho’s entire output. 2)Symphony No. Solo XII for viola was born in 2016 in memoriam Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016).55011-480-7, € 11,90 Buy now, 04.03.2019 14 (Rituals) (Incantation III, Mantra of the Ending), Symphony No. 106. 9 (1993-94) is also a concertante symphony: in this work, which contains many different time strata, the solo instrument is the trombone. 529 likes. Martin Fröst(BIS Records SACD-1463), Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra (Interlude II and solo cadenza)Pori Sinfonietta/Jan Söderblom, sol. Aho, Kalevi Fennica Gehrman, 2020 29,90 € (27,18 € vat 0 %) A large-scale work in four movements lasting over half an hour, Kalevi Aho's Sonata for violoncello and piano (2019) in four movements is furios, virtuosic and poweful, with a lyrical second movement. Colin Currie Symphony No. Containing the Percussion Concerto Sieidi and the 5th Symphony, it was voted Music Web’s record of the month in October, and the Symphony made a stunning impact on the critic. 1969-74) is the three-movement Fourth Symphony (1972-73) with videly varied emotional contrasts. External links. The structural starting-point for the single-movement Second Symphony (1970/95) is a triple fugue. 14 "Rituals"Symphony No. The culmination of Aho’s first period (approx. Virpi Räisänen, mezzo-soprano, Symphony No. Latest publications, Lied (2017) was composed as an 80th-birthday gift for Jouko Teikari, former solo oboist in the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Duration 24 min. 9 for trombone and orchestra (I Presto)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. 2 - Hommage à Beethoven, Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra (Interlude II and solo cadenza), Symphony No. John Storgårds(BIS Records SACD-1676), Symphony No. The opera was commissioned by the Sibelius Academy and premiered on 17 October 2014 in Helsinki. Martin Fröst(BIS Records SACD-1463), Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra (Interlude II and solo cadenza)Pori Sinfonietta/Jan Söderblom, sol. In 1992 the Lahti Symphony Orchestra appointed Aho as its composer in residence, and he has written all of his more recent orchestral works for these musicians. In the works which marked his breakthrough (the First Symphony, 1969, and Third String Quartet, 1971) Aho continues in the tradition of Shostakovich; even in these pieces, however, he arrived at a very original formal/dramatic decision. The fragmentary sketches of Scriabin’s last, unfinished work Mysterium inspired him to write this piano quintet dedicated to its commissioner, pianist Izumi Tateno. 9 (Sinfonia Concertante No. In the intense Chamber Symphony No. The song cycle Kiinalaisia lauluja (Chinese Songs, 1997) for soprano and orchestra is a setting of ancient Chinese love poetry. Aho has also completed J. S. Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XIV which exists in versions for string orchestra, organ or saxophone quartet. 01.10.2020 55011-490-6, € 13,40 Buy now, 25.10.2019 Aho, Kalevi Fennica Gehrman, 2020 14,00 € (12,73 € vat 0 %) Kalevi Aho (b. 9 for trombone and orchestra (I Presto), Symphony No. Kalevi Aho in Profile. This G minor quartet was heard the first time only 50 years after it was born, in June 2019. Read more 02.10.2020 News and events. 55011-673-3, € 29,90 Buy now, The Viola Concerto is part of an entire concert, which Kalevi Aho composed for the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland to be premiered in 2007. The large-scale, dramatic Tenth Symphony (1996) is like a tribute to the great Romantic tradition of symphonic music, and is quite different from the Eleventh Symphony for six percussionists and orchestra (1997-98), which is dominated by strong, hypnotic rhythms and by subtle tonal colours. Among many other extremely interesting creatures Kalevi Aho 's Törö is swimming along (see the comments for the sheet music link). Drawing on material from the Insect Life, Aho composed his Seventh Symphony in 1988: a six-movement, cheerful work, the “Insect Symphony” has been described as a post-modern, tragicomic anti-symphony. Törö is Finnish for Gudgeon (Gobio gobio), a species of fish living in fresh-water streams. The lighter Symphony No. Published by Fennica Gehrman. 1969-74) is the three-movement Fourth Symphony (1972-73) with videly varied emotional contrasts. 17 was premiered in 2019 by the Sinfonia Lahti, under the direction of the Aho expert Osmo Vänskä. Publisher's website with audio samples and promotional scores. Osmo Vänskä, sol. 12, “Luosto” (2002-03), designed for outdoor purposes, Symphony No. 7 "Insect SymphonySymphony No. 4 (III Lento)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. Latest publications, Clarinet Concerto (I Tempestoso)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. 13 "Symphonic Characterizations", Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra 'The Bells', Theremin Concerto 'Acht Jahreszeiten'/'Eight Seasons', About the concerto project (Highlights 2/2012), listen to Esa Pietilä's insights about the concerto, listen to the LPO/Colin Currie podcast about the concerto. Emma Gaala Publisher: Fennica Gehrman Publisher's reference: KL78.81 Our Stock Code: 1391534 Media Type: Paperback (5 pages [score]) Call Us: 0 20 8662 8400. These autumnal poems immediately began to sound as music in my mind – the poems have a very beautiful musical ring and rhythm.” Score & parts 55011-675-7, € 49,90 Buy now, 15.12.2020 2), Symphony No. Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Piano. Osmo Vänskä, sol. His most performed concerto is Sieidi (Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, 2010) commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luosto Classic Festival and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and performed by Colin Currie and Martin Grubinger (listen to the LPO/Colin Currie podcast about the concerto). The brochure about Kalevi Aho's orchestral works includes articles about his music, notes of his compositions, a work list as well as a sampler CD (most recent works excluded). 9 (1993-94) is also a concertante symphony: in this work, which contains many different time strata, the solo instrument is the trombone. Christian Lindberg(BIS Records CD-706), Symphony No. The culmination of Aho’s first period (approx. Osmo Vänskä(BIS Records CD-936), Symphony No. Leading composer of the middle generation of Finnish composers * Particularly acclaimed for his symphonies (16 to date) and … Halla (1992) was made as the compulsory piece for a Nordic violin and piano duo competition in Vaasa 1992. Aho has also completed J. S. Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XIV which exists in versions for string orchestra, organ or saxophone quartet. The lighter Symphony No. In the years 1974-1988 he was a lecturer in musicology at Helsinki University; from 1988 until 1993 he was professor of composition at the Sibelius Academy and since the autumn of 1993 he has been a freelance composer. 528 likes. The 30-minute concerto requires great artistry on the part of the performer. 2 for strings (1991-92) we hear, in a sense, the music of the composer’s inner voices. Aho studied the violin and composition at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and continued his studies in Berlin as a pupil of Boris Blacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. At times it is lean and linear, but the work also contains multi-layered, full-toned piano textures and massive rolling octaves. All the four parts of this 8-minute piece are equally important. Foremost among Aho’s many writings are the treatises Finnish Music and the Kalevala and Einojuhani Rautavaara as a Symphonist, the collection of essays The Tasks of an Artist in a Post-Modern Society, Art and Reality as well as the books Music of Finland (in collaboration with E. Salmenhaara, P. Jalkanen and K. Virtamo) and Uuno Klami – Life and Works (in collaboration with Marjo Valkonen, 2000). Kalevi Aho discography at MusicBrainz Latest publications, Scored for piano left hand and string quartet, Mysterium (2019) consists of four movements performed without a break. In 1982 and 1984 The Key was also performed by the Hamburg State Opera. 10Symphony No. News and events, This work is scored for a string orchestra of twenty players. BIS Records’ new Kalevi Aho CD has had a truly enthusiastic reception in the media. Sharon Bezaly(BIS Records CD-1499)Sieidi - Percussion Concerto (extract)London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. John Storgårds(BIS Records SACD-1676), Symphony No. Solo part & piano reduction 55011-615-3, € 43,50 Buy now, 11.06.2020 Kalevi Aho: Symphony No. Latest publications, Clarinet Concerto (I Tempestoso)Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. It tells, in Spanish, about turning points in the lives of Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera, and Lev Trotsky, an exile in Mexico. Latest publications, Kalevi Aho's Second Piano Sonata (2016) is a tribute to the great giant of the piano sonata, Beethoven. Kalevi Aho: Hiljaisuus - Silence (1982). The piece also includes a demanding cadenza. 14 (Rituals) (Incantation III, Mantra of the Ending)Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, cond. Thus, in the four-movement First Symphony, we are gradually drawn ever further away from the “existing reality” of the beginning, ultimately reaching the third movement’s strange, pseudo-baroque style, and finally, in the last movement, we can meet the problems of the “true reality” head on. Among Kalevi Aho’s numerous arrangements are Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death for bass and orchestra and the first act of Klami’s ballet Whirls. Aho's oeuvre also includes two double concertos: for two cellos (commissioned by the BBC and premiered in Manchester in 2004) and for French horn and harp (commissioned by the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in 2015). Osmo Vänskä(BIS Records CD-936), Symphony No. At the same time as Gehrmans acquired the Warner catalogue, Fennica Gehrman took over the Finnish section. Concerto is in a single movement, but it nevertheless contains slower and faster episodes of varying or contrasting character. Study score: 55011-641-2, € 34,50 Buy nowSolo part: 55011-642-9, € 17,90 Buy now, 16.09.2020 Fennica Gehrman is the leading publisher of classical and contemporary music in Finland. 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