Einojuhani Rautavara

The Hampstead and Highgate Festival in London performed several of Rautavaara's orchestral and chamber works in summer 1999. To include a premiere in the programme, festival director Barry Milligan co...

Commencé en avril 1970, le manuscrit inachevé de cette oeuvre fut égaré pendant de nombreuses années. Après sa redécouverte accidentelle, le compositeur décida de compléter l'oeuvre, ce qu'il fit en a...

All of these landscapes are full of memories and atmospheres, visual as well as auditive views - for me they are musical life-themes. The opportunity to develop these themes arose when the deeply admi...

This edition (reduction for 2 pianos) for Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No. 3 Gift of Dreams is now available for the first time. The work was composed for Vladimir Ashkenazy and it is a masterpiece of...

As if in homage to choral history, Rautavaara's Credo from 1972 departs from chant-like beginnings, passing through homophony and polyphony towards a modern synthesis of all its elements. It is equall...