Einojuhani Rautavara

Rautavaara wrote this short work in 1999 for Seppo Kimanen's birthday. It was premiered by Yoshiko Arai, violin and Martti Rousi, cello, in Helsinki on 7 February 1999.

CD : Marko Ylönen (violoncelle), Orchestre Philharmonique d'Helsinki, dir. Max Pommer ODE 819-2

J'ai composé le concerto pour flûte 'Dances with the Winds' en 1974 pour la flûtiste suédoise Gunilla von Bahr, qui s'était spécialisée dans toute la famille des flûtes. C'est pourquoi une flûte ordin...

According to Rautavaara it was a pity to leave the melancholy, moonlit songs of his opera Rasputin to languish within the confines of the opera. He therefore arranged the set of unabashedly sentimenta...

1. Personalia - 2. Temporalia - 3. Qualitativa - 4. Quantitativa [GCh] 1960 3' SATB(Sprechchor). UA Zürich, 1958.

The pieces in this book are prescribed for use in the Piano Accordion Examination of the Tara Examination Board of Irish Music. Contains these

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...