Aho's completion of Bach's Contrapunctus XIV. This edition is suitable for wind ensemble of four or more players. Parts for C-instruments, B-flat-instrument and E-flat-instruments are provided.
This work reveals Aho the sensual lyricist. The texts are Chinese love songs by three poets (in Finnish). According to Aho this work aspires to the intolerable lighness of life and existence - a phras...
This album has been compiled as a tribute to Henry Purcell in the 300th anniversary year of his death. Purcell did not write a great deal of organ music, so Bryan Hesford has taken works from varied s...
'One of the most ambitious of Kalevi Aho's composition projects has been to write a concerto for each of the main instruments in the Romantic symphony orchestra. In 2011, with the Horn Concerto (the e...
Kalevi Aho's Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra (2018) is in seven movements performed without a break and each using the guitar in a different way. The fairly slow introduction-like movement i...
Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker remains one of today's favorite ballets, with its magical theme and varying movements of different moods and tempi. 'Waltz of the Flowers' is one of Tchaikovsky's b...
Kalevi Aho's percussion concerto 'Sieidi' is one of the most often performed percussion concertos of our time. The Sieidi concerto is in one movement but divided into several sections both faster and...