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Mikko
Heiniö
MIKKO HEINIÖ’S MUSIC
– vitality, positive energy and rhythmic drive
An element of the unexpected, and a physical sense of
rhythm are fundamental features of the music of Mikko
Heiniö, as are the playful and absurd, the gleeful feet-off-theground feeling. In composing his music, he wishes to emulate
the way in which Federico Fellini the film director and Antoni Gaudí the architect approached their art. “Their work
has tremendous humanity, fantasy, humour and playfulness. I
couldn’t work with a frown any more than they could.”
M
ikko Heiniö (b. 1948) has been a freelance composer since
vacating the chair in musicology at the University of Turku
a few years ago. As a researcher he is aware of the different
types of music abroad in the world, and his widespread interest can
be detected in his compositions on the topic of the human race and
culture. He does not engage in playful irony with stylistic borrowings
or dismiss them as ‘seen them all’. Instead, he cultivates an exultant
but carefully-contrived brand of hybridism, vitality, positive energy
and rhythmic drive. “I have a strong liking for characterised rhythm
rooted in the spine and the pelvis. Rather than the mathematical abstraction of serial music, I must have a physical sense of rhythm.”
Heiniö wrote his first opera, The Knight and the Dragon (Riddaren
och draken, 1999–2000) for performance in a multi-dimensional,
echoing church. Though by nature a static mystery play, it has an intensive pulse that generates a strong experience of spirituality. Then
came The Hour of the Serpent (Käärmeen hetki, 2002–05), a character
drama for a conventional opera stage. His third opera is about King
Eric XIV of Sweden and Karin Månsdotter.
His symphonies so far number two. Possible Worlds (1987) in postmodern style is marked by pluralism, reflection on tradition, borrowings and stylistic adaptations. The music is a combination of the unexpected and the inevitable, leading the listener ever onwards to a
new experience. The result is a unique story that spirals back to its
point of departure.
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The second symphony, Songs of Night and Love
(Yön ja rakkauden lauluja, 1997) has a baritone soloist. Heiniö describes it as a symphony with a programme that is sung. The orchestra has plenty of independent things to say, and the baritone is only one
voice among many. The work covers a broad span,
from the nocturnal world of longing to the ecstaticrhythm procession music of the finale.
Tendency towards rhythmic drive
Heiniö was using ethnic influences to give his works
extra life before there was ever any talk of world music. “I don’t know how it originally came about. At
school, I played rhythm music in a rock band. My
teacher during my year in Berlin in 1975 was Witold
Szalonek, who was interested in ethnic cultures. I
chose my records and concerts on two grounds: ethnic and contemporary.”
The rhythm emanating from the pelvis really goes
to town in On the Rocks (1998) for orchestra.
The orchestral song cycle Vuelo de alambre (1983)
is based on poems by anonymous Chilean prisoners. Despite their
grim background, the texts also express memories and longing. The
hidden melodies of the Andies, the marching songs and Latin-American rhythms sometimes find themselves on a collision course, but the
emergent eloquence finally radiates sympathy, tenderness and optimism.
“I have a tendency towards rhythms of African origin, even if they
have travelled via South America and the Caribbean. But I avoid
stuck-on effects, because they lead to postcard folklorism. I examine
the deep structures from a European, analytical perspective to see
what I can build on them. Pentatonicism, for example, has somehow
to be chromaticised, and the overall sound ends up as European.”
Vuelo de alambre uses a 12-note row from which two pentatonic
scales gradually become distinguishable as the work proceeds. Expressive chromaticism and folk music overlap, join and part.
Heiniö liberally bends types of music with a strong rhythm to suit
his purpose: tango, boogie, rhythm & blues and jazz. The time he
spent in Benin in West Africa is reflected in the part for five percussionists in his piano concerto Khora.
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Hybrids and singability
In composing his music, Heiniö wishes to emulate the way in which
Federico Fellini the film director and Antoni Gaudí the architect approached their art. “Their work has tremendous humanity, fantasy,
humour and playfulness. I couldn’t work with a frown any more than
they could.”
Hybrids – unexpected and often crossover formats – are a fundamental feature of Heiniö the composer. The sixth piano concerto,
Hermes (1994), and the seventh, Khora (2001), are both dance works
although they can also be performed as concert versions. In the sixth
the solo piano is offset by a string orchestra and soprano, in the seventh by five percussionists. Envelope (2002) for solo trumpet and orchestra was composed round the Haydn Trumpet Concerto, and to
be performed without a break between the movements. The Haydn
orchestra plays up on the platform, but the other instruments ‘envelop’
the audience. The soloist moves from place to place.
As a young man, Heiniö dreamt of a career as a writer and philologist but in the end chose music. In many of his songs and choral
works he has subjected the linguistic parameters of his texts to almost
systematic treatment. At one extreme are the works whose texts are
broken down into their basic phonetic units devoid of any semantic
content. Representing the other extreme are the vocal works in which
the meaning is all-important.
In Non-Stop (1995) for mixed choir the nonsense words
provide flexible substance for timbres and rhythms lent impact by consonants. The rolling beat unfolds over a pliable
harmonic background.
The dialect of Western Finland also supplies
colour and laid-back rhythms in the setting
of poems by Heli Laaksonen in the
five-movement Pikavuaro Turkku
(Turku Express, 2001) for mixed
choir. Heiniö gives
the poems an
airily tonal,
folk song-like
ambience overlaid with discreet
layers of polyphonic rhythm.
Wind Pictures (1991) for choir
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and orchestra is in one sense a Requiem for Hei­niö’s daughter, who
died when still very young, but it also expands into a broad wind metaphor the harmony of which is fecundated by a 10-note chord discovered in some sketches by Skryabin. Also in the fourth movement,
Tuuli Maria, is a Heiniö lullaby he sang to his daughter.
Heiniö has admirably solved the problem of singability in modern
music. In the Sextet (2000, for baritone and Schönbergian “Pierrot ensemble”) there are no awkward interval jumps. Diatonic cells can be
detected, and there are no bulky chromatic blocks in the melodic flow.
Embraced in the light, bright sound of the seven-movement work is an
awareness of disappointment wounded by love, detached and numb.
The falsetto singing in the skittish scherzo creates some ironic, comic
dimensions.
Playfulness and drama in chamber music
The musicians performing Heiniö’s works are also offered a touch of
physical drama, as in the Piano Quintet (1993), where they are expected to speak and hum text by Lewis Carroll. The resonances of
the human body serve as a physical timbral extension that also has the
ingredients for a hybrid. The playful and absurd, the gleeful feet-offthe-ground feeling are features of this composer.
Wood is present in the piano quartet The Voice of the Tree (Puun
ääni, 2006) inspired by the poetry of Eira Stenberg, in a very concrete
manner; its feel is part of the physical aspect of the music. In addition to being played in the normal way, the strings are dampened,
plucked, struck, tapped and rubbed to bring out the intrinsic sound of
the wood, the soulfulness of which is far from mere dry woodworking. The string trio and piano together constitute a vision in which the
listener may similarly detect the tree swaying in the wind, the movements of the branches and details of the foliage.
Mikko Heiniö has long been a focal figure on the Finnish musical
scene and continues to be so as Chairman of the Society of Finnish
Composers and Vice-Chairman of Teosto, the Finnish Composers’
Copyright Society. He has been composer-in-residence of the Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra for more than a decade, and he was the author of the volume on contemporary music in the History of Finnish
Music that won the nation’s most prestigious prize for non-fiction, the
Tieto-Finlandia.
Jukka Isopuro
Translation: Susan Sinisalo
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CURRICULUM VITAE
M
ikko Heiniö (born on 18 May 1948) studied piano with
Liisa Pohjola and composition with Joonas Kokkonen at
the Sibelius Academy from 1971 to 1975. The two years
1975–77 were spent with the Polish teacher Witold Szalonek in Berlin. Heiniö also studied musicology at the University of Helsinki, finishing his doctoral thesis in 1984 and working as Professor of Musicology at the University of Turku from 1985 to 2005.
Heiniö´s repertoire contains over 80 works. The main pieces of his
music are his orchestral works such as eight piano concertos, Vuelo de
Alambre (cycle for voice and orchestra, 1983), two symphonies (Possible Worlds, 1987 and Songs of Night and Love, 1997), Wind Pictures
for choir and orchestra (1991), On the Rocks (1998), trumpet concerto Envelope (2002) and Alla Madre for violin
and orchestra (2006). Among his main chamber
music works are Framtidens Skugga for soprano
and brass band (1980), Piano Trio (1988), Piano
Quintet (1993), Treno Della Notte (2000) and
Café au Lait (2006). Of his choral works, one
could mention Three Folk Songs (1977), Luceat (1992), Non-Stop (1995) and Pikavuaro
Turkku (Turku Express, 2002).
Especially in his piano concertos Heiniö has
combined different musical genres and types
of expression: his fourth piano concerto Genom
Kvällen (Through the Evening, 1986) features a
choir and a string orchestra with the soloist; in the
sixth (Hermes, 1994) there is a soprano and a string orchestra
as well, and his eight, Månkonsert (The Moon Concerto, 2008) introduces a mezzo-soprano and a large orchestra. Hermes and his seventh
piano concerto Khora were planned together with choreographer Tiina Lindfors for the dance theatre ERI. Lindfors has also three other
choreographies on her account made for Heiniö´s music.
In recent years, Heiniö has been gearing towards musical theatre. He composed a church opera, The Knight and the Dragon (Riddaren och Draken, 2000) for Turku Cathedral´s 700th anniversary
and Käärmeen hetki (The Hour of the Serpent, 2002–2005), an opera
premiered by the Finnish National Opera. His third opera about the
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King Eric XIV of Sweden and his
wife Karin Månsdotter was commissioned for Turku’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2011.
In addition to composing, Mikko Heiniö is one of Finland’s leading musicologists. His doctoral
dissertation entitled “The idea of
innovation and tradition” (1984)
dealt with the musical philosophy
of contemporary Finnish composers. Articles by him on 20th century Finnish music, neoclassicism,
dodecaphony, serialism and postmodernism are to be found in The
History of Finnish Music (Volume 4, Contemporary Music). Heiniö
has also had a number of articles published in the Finnish Music
Quarterly. The total amount of his musicological articles reaches over
two hundred overall. He has been granted a number of awards such
as Tieto-Finlandia (1997) together with Erkki Salmenhaara and Fabian Dahlström, and Suomi-palkinto (the Finland Award, 2006) by
the Cultural Ministry of Finland.
Heiniö is a member of the Board of Teosto (the Finnish Composers’ Copyright Bureau) and Luses (the Foundation for the Promotion
of Finnish Music). He has been the Chairman of the Society of Finnish Composers since 1992. He has also been elected as a member of
the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in May 2004.
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LIST OF WORKS
Stage Works
Hermes (Piano Concerto No. 6) (1994)
Dance Pictures for Piano, Soprano and Strings
See: Works for Soloist(s) and Orchestra
Khora (Piano Concerto No. 7) (2001)
Dance Images for Piano and
Five Percussionists
See: Works for Soloist(s) and Orchestra
The Hour of the Serpent /
Käärmeen hetki (2002–2005)
Opera in Two Acts
Libretto by Juha Siltanen (in Finnish)
3 sopranos, 1 mezzo-soprano, 1 alto,
1 tenor, 1 baritone, 1 bass-baritone, 1 bass,
mixed choir, orchestra: 3333/4331/13/1,
piano, strings
Duration: ca. 2 h 30 min
Commissioned by the Finnish National
Opera
Fp: cond. Hannu Lintu, dir. Erik Söderblom,
Finnish National Opera,
September 15, 2006
The Knight and the Dragon / Riddaren och draken (1999–2000)
Church Opera
Libretto by Bo Carpelan (in Swedish)
2 sopranos, 1 mezzo-soprano, 1 alto, 1 tenor, 1 bass-baritone, 1 bass, 2 female
choirs, 2 male choirs, orchestra: 2222/4331/13/0, organ, strings
Intrada – Act I – Intermezzo – Act II – Coda
Duration: ca. 1 h 15 min
Commissioned by the City of Turku and its congregations, Turku University and
Opera Society for the 700th anniversary of Turku Cathedral
Fp: Turku City Orchestra, cond. Ulf Söderblom,
Turku Cathedral, November 9, 2000
Appeal to the eye, the ear and the mind
One of the most impressive operas written over
the past few years … The music depicting light,
in particular, generates a sense of dazzling beauty …
A successful appeal to the eye,
the ear and the mind.
Helsingin Sanomat 2000
Ground-breaking modern opera
…An example of the most ambitious and
most ground-breaking modern opera
drama ever staged in Finland.
Turun Sanomat 2006
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Päivi Nisula in Heiniö’s opera The Hour of the Serpent
Works for Orchestra
Concerto grosso (1975)
string orchestra and harpsichord
Duration: 21’
Commissioned by the Oslo
Kammerorkester
Fp: Oslo Kammerorkester, cond. Ornulf
Boye Hansen, Oslo, April 22, 1977
manuscript
Tredicia (1976)
3333/4331/13/0, strings
Duration: 13’
Fp: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
cond. Leif Segerstam, Helsinki,
December 13, 1978
manuscript
Concerto for Orchestra (1982)
3333/4331/13/1, piano, strings
Duration: 28’
Commissioned by the Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra
Fp: Turku PO, cond. Pertti Pekkanen,
Turku, November 11, 1982
manuscript
Drone (1982)
(third movement of Concerto for
Orchestra)
Duration: 6’
manuscript
Possible Worlds (1987)
A Symphony
3333/4331/13/1, piano, strings
Duration: 34’
Commissioned by the Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra
Fp: Turku PO, cond. Igor Bezrodnyi,
Turku, December 10, 1987
Fp (with choreography): Dance Theatre
ERI, Tiina Lindfors, choreography, Turku
PO, cond. Hannu Lintu, Turku,
September 16, 1999
Commissioned by the University of
Turku for its 75th anniversary
Fp: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, cond.
Janne Haapanen, Turku, May 26, 1995
Minne (1996)
string orchestra
Duration: 18’
Commissioned by the Korsholm Festival
Fp: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra,
cond. Juha Kangas, Korsholm Music
Festival, June 27, 1997
Symphony No. 2 ”Songs of Night
and Love” (“Yön ja rakkauden
lauluja”) (1997)
See: Works for Soloist(s) and Orchestra
On the Rocks (1998)
3333/4331/13, piano (doubling celesta),
strings
Duration: 13’
Commissioned by the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Fp: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
cond. Sakari Oramo, Helsinki,
November 13, 1998
Enjoyable opening number
I didn’t expect On the Rocks to be so
fine, quite a masterpiece in fact. …
I enjoyed it purely as music,
eagerly drinking in its gentle
harmonies, its graceful melodies
and magnificent timbres.
Etelä-Suomen Sanomat 2004
Sonata da chiesa (2005)
Four Serpent Scenes in the Old
Testament
brass, celesta and percussion (4 French
horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba,
celesta, timpani, 3 percussionists)
1. The Serpent in Eden
(Käärme Paratiisissa)
2. Moses Turns the Staff into a Snake
(Mooses muuttaa sauvan
käärmeeksi)
3. The Bronze Snake (Pronssikäärme)
4. Leviathan (Leviatan)
Duration: ca. 16’
Commissioned by the Turku and
Kaarina Parish Union
Fp: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra,
cond. Markus Lehtinen, Katedraali soi!
festival, Turku, February 9, 2006
Sensual timbres and swing!
Heiniö has an ear for sensual timbres,
but equally marked in this new work is
his liking for rhythmic romping. For the
second movement of the Church Sonata
is a real boogie with a swing that sets one
wondering what sort of music Heiniö
would write for big band.
Turun Sanomat 2006
Maestoso, Variations on a Theme by
Erik XIV (2008)
3333/4331/13/1, strings
Duration: 8’
Dall’ ombra all’ombra (1992)
Seven Variations, Theme and Coda for
Orchestra and Synthesizer
2222/4330/13/0, synthesizer, strings
Duration: 13’
Commissioned by the Turku
Conservatory
Fp: Turku Conservatory
Symphony Orchestra, cond. Janne
Haapanen, Turku, November 28, 1992
Trias (1995)
de “O quam mundum” (Piae Cantiones
1582: LXXI)
2222/4631/13/0, strings
Duration: 10’
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Works for Soloist(s) and Orchestra
Khora (Piano Concerto No. 7) (2001)
Dance Images for Piano and Five Percussionists
solo piano+percussion group (5 players)
Introduction (Johdanto) [in the scene version only]
1. Khora I
2. The Mirror (Peili)
3. Oidipus
4. Eros & Thanatos
5. Khora II
Duration: 45’ (concert version 35’)
Commissioned by the Dance Theatre ERI with support of the
Madetoja Foundation
Fp: Juhani Laukola, piano, Kroustikon Percussion Ensemble,
cond. Risto Pulkkinen, Dance Theatre ERI with choreography
by Tiina Lindfors, Turku, November 8, 2001
Happy combination of rhythm and sound
…A magnificent, innovative and sonorous piece for small
ensemble. …The fact that Heiniö scored it almost exclusively
for percussion well supports the message and gives it a touch
of originality.
Åbo underrättelser 2001
A thundering text that beautifully balances the choreography.
The timpani and other percussion nuances combined with the
clear voice of the piano are sublime.
Hufvudstadsbladet 2001
Tiina Lindfors and Alexander Zilbermann as Eros
and Thanatos in Heiniö’s Khora
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Khora
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Khora (Piano Concerto No. 7)
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Khora
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Neljä yölaulua / Four Night Songs
(1972)
baritone or contralto and orchestra:
2222/4230/11/0, celesta, piano, strings
(also available as a version for voice and
piano)
Text: Mikko Heiniö (in Finnish)
Duration: 10’
Fp: Olavi Hautsalo, baritone, Pentti
Koskimies, piano, Helsinki, May 10, 1973
manuscript
Concerto for French Horn and
Orchestra (1978)
solo horn+2222/0230/12/0, piano,
strings
Duration: 26’
Fp: Esa-Pekka Salonen, horn, Pori City
Orchestra, cond. Atso Almila, Pori,
March 5, 1980
manuscript
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
No. 3 (1981)
solo piano+2222/4330/13/0, celesta,
strings
Duration: 28’
Fp: Liisa Pohjola, piano, Tampere
Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Atso
Almila, Tampere, February 23, 1984
Genom kvällen (Concerto for Piano
and Orchestra No. 4) (1986)
See: Choral Works
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
No. 5 (1989)
solo piano+2222/4330/12/0, strings
Duration: 25’
Commissioned by the Association of
Finnish Symphony Orchestras
Fp: Ralf Gothóni, piano, Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Pertti
Pekkanen, Turku, April 5, 1990
Hermes (Piano Concerto No. 6)
(1994)
Dance Pictures for Piano, Soprano and
Strings
Duration: 52’–55’
Commissioned by the Dance Theatre ERI
and Turku Music Festival
Fp: Juhani Lagerspetz, piano, Camilla
Nylund, soprano, Ostrobothnian
Chamber Orchestra, cond. Juha Kangas,
Dance Theatre ERI with choreography
by Tiina Lindfors, Turku Music Festival,
August 11, 1995
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It is high time…
My pal Guy Rickards astutely
soprano and orchestra: 3333/4331/13/1, described Vuelo de Alambre and
celesta and piano (1 player), strings
Possible Worlds as ‘like serial VillaTexts: anonymous Chilean prisoners
Lobos’; Hermes is pulsing with
(in Spanish)
energetic life; and now an opera,
1. Prelude
The Knight and the Dragon, which
2. Tengo (I Have)
is a phenomenal achievement. It’s
3. Electra
high time we started paying a lot
4. Fué anoche (It Happened Last Night) more attention to Heiniö.
5. Tres Alamos
Toccata Press 2001 (Martin
6. Postlude
Anderson)
Vuelo de alambre
(Barbed-wire Flight) (1983)
Duration: 28’
Commissioned by the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Fp: Eija Orpana-Martin, soprano, Finnish
Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond.
Jorma Panula, Helsinki, April 3, 1985
Fué anoche
It Happened Last Night
Fué anoche
allá en el sur,
entre la última primavera
acumulada,
que llegaron tus manos
como un suave golpe de aqua.
No hablaste,
estabas ahí.
It happened last night,
down there in the south,
when spring was
at its height,
our hands came,
like a gentle shower of water.
You did not speak,
You just were there.
El sol, mientras tanto,
proponía a los árboles
su estatura de sombras.
The sun, meanwhile,
offered the trees its shade,
the whole way down.
Y en el silenzio de la luz
y de los patios,
trotaban mis hijos
con pasitos de esquina y mariposa.
And in the silence of the light
and the courtyards,
ran my children
with steps as light as a butterfly.
Y entre tu sombra
y la mía
volantines transitorios
levantaron hacia el norte
su vuelo de alambre.
And between your shadow
and mine
the passing kites
rose towards the north
on their barbed-wire flight.
En la tarde,
organizada en la distancia
la intranquilidad de los espacios,
mi retorno,
como la lluvia,
como tus manos.
In the afternoon,
at an organized distance
the restlessness of space,
my return,
like rain,
like our hands.
Chacabuco, February 7, 1974
Symphony No. 2
”Songs of Night and Love”
(“Yön ja rakkauden lauluja”) (1997)
baritone and orchestra: 3333/4331/13/1,
celesta and piano (1 player), strings
Text: Lassi Nummi (in Finnish)
1. Haluan sinua, haluan sinut
(I Want You, All of You)
2. Meren hiljaisuus (Silence of the Sea)
3. Sydänyöllä (At Dead of Night)
4. Juhla, unen aalto
(Celebration, a Wave of Sleep)
Duration: 37’
Commissioned by the Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra
Fp: Tommi Hakala, baritone,
Turku PO, cond. Ilpo Mansnerus, Turku,
May 14, 1998
Sensual music – Heiniö’s “Tristan”
The second symphony is Mikko Heiniö’s
“Tristan”, so much Wagnerian semidarkness and mood does it contain. …
Heiniö has written sensual music, a long
orchestral ballad…
Hufvudstadsbladet 2001
Envelope (2002)
for Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in Eb
solo trumpet+3333/4331/13/1, piano,
strings
Duration: pre Haydn 12’30”, post Haydn
7’30”
(the work is played without breaks
before and after the Haydn Concerto;
it includes also a cadenza and two
sections linking the separate concerto
movements together)
Commissioned by the Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra
Fp: Ole Edvard Antonsen, trumpet,
Turku PO, cond. Rudolf Werthen, Turku,
September 19, 2002
Alla madre (2007)
solo violin+3333/4331/13, harp, strings
1. Arrivo (Allegretto pesante – Agitato)
2. Aura (Andante – Allegro)
3. Carezza (Cadenza – Cantabile)
Duration: 30’
Commissioned by the Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra
Fp: Kurt Nikkanen, violin, Turku PO,
cond. Petri Sakari, Turku, May 15, 2008
A fantasy journey
…An instrumental adventure and
a fantasy journey. It is obviously
challenging and fun to do for soloist and
orchestra alike and keeps the audience’s
interest awake every moment.
Helsingin Sanomat 2008
Syyskesän laulu / Late Summer
Song (2008)
bass and chamber orchestra:
2222/2200/1, strings
(also available a version for bass and
piano)
Text: Lassi Nummi (in Finnish)
Duration: 17’
1. Suuri valo (The Great Light)
2. Kun saavumme tähän hetkeen
(When We Reach this Moment)
3. Tämä outo seutu (This Strange
Region)
4. Virran partaalla (By the Stream)
5. Välimeri (The Mediterranean)
6. Taivaalla kuu (The Moon in the Sky)
7. Syyskesä (Late Summer)
Commissioned by the Turku and Kaarina
Parish Union
Moon Concerto / Månkonsert
(Piano Concerto No. 8) (2007–08)
Reflections and Variations on Themes by
John Dowland and Hugo Ingelius
mezzo-soprano, piano and orchestra:
3333/4331/13/1, celesta, strings
Text: Edith Södergran, Carl Snoilsky
(in Swedish)
1. Nocturne
2. Rosso
3. Finale
Duration: 38’
Commissioned by the Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Fp: Heini Kärkkäinen, piano, Monica
Groop, mezzo-soprano, Finnish RSO,
Helsinki, September 23, 2009
Rhythmic riot from Heiniö
The wildest torrent of sound was
unleashed in Mikko Heiniö’s Envelope.
In this riot of postmodern timbres,
tumult and rhythm the composer has
“enveloped” the Trumpet Concerto by
Joseph Haydn.
Helsingin Sanomat 2008
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Symphony No. 2 “Songs of Night and Love”
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Symphony No. 2
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CHAMBER WORKS
Suite for Flute and Two Guitars
(1974)
Minimba 1 (1982)
Canon for 4 (or 3) Guitars
Duration: 7’30’’
Fp: Pekka Vesanen, Kari Äikäs, Juan
Antonio Muro, Ilmari Hytönen, guitars,
Espoo, May 3, 1984
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber
Music Festival
Fp: New Helsinki Quartet (Jan
Söderblom, I violin, Petri Aarnio, II violin,
Ilari Angervo, viola, Jan-Erik Gustafsson,
cello), Heini Kärkkäinen, piano, Kuhmo
Chamber Music Festival, July 20, 1994
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and
Harpsichord (1976)
“...in spe” (1984)
ReLay (1998)
Duration: 15’
Fp: Ilari Lehtinen, flute, Rolf Holmberg
and Pekka Vesanen, guitars, Helsinki,
May 10, 1974
manuscript
Duration: 15’
Fp: Aale Lindgren, oboe, Matti
Tossavainen, bassoon, Kari Jussila,
harpsichord, Helsinki, July 29, 1976
Akasa (1977)
6 trombones
Duration: 11’
Fp: Trombone course of the Jyväskylä
Arts Festival, cond. Mikko Heiniö,
Jyväskylä, July 7, 1977
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Four Finnish Folktunes /
Neljä kansansävelmää (1977)
(arr.)
4 trombones
Duration: 6’30’’
Notturno di fiordo (1978)
flute/piccolo and harp
Duration: 17’
Commissioned by NOMUS
Fbp: Ilari Lehtinen, flute, Marjatta Haahti,
harp, Finnish Broadcasting Company,
1979
Publisher: Society of Finnish Composers
Diaphony for Saxophone and Marimba/
Vibraphone
Duration: 7’30’’
Fbp: Pekka Savijoki, saxophone, Tim
Ferchen, marimba/vibraphone, Finnish
Broadcasting Company, 1985
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Piano Trio (1988)
7.2.1949 (1998)
Duration: 13’
Commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber
Music Festival
Fp: Fontenay Trio (Wolf Harden, piano,
Michael Mucke, violin, Niklas Schmidt,
cello), Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival,
July 19, 1989
50 Measures and Coda for Seppo
Kimanen for his 50th Anniversary Day
clarinet, cello and piano
Duration: 1’40’’
Fp: Kari Kriikku, clarinet, Jan-Erik
Gustafsson, cello, Juhani Lagerspetz,
piano, Helsinki, February 7, 1999
manuscript
In G (1988)
Espresso (1999)
cello and piano
Duration: 7’
Commissioned by the Musical Society
of Turku for the Turku Cello Competition
1990
Fp: Participants in the Turku Cello
Competition (2nd round), January
16–17, 1990
violin, cello and piano
Duration: 3’
Commissioned by the Juvenalia
Chamber Music Competition
Fp: Juvenalia Chamber Music
Competition, February 2001
Publisher: Modus Music
Aurora (1989)
clarinet, cello and piano
Duration: 18’
Commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber
Music Festival
Fp: Tuulia Ylönen, clarinet, Marko Ylönen,
cello, Heini Kärkkäinen, piano, Kuhmo
Chamber Music Festival, July 29, 2001
Fanfare for Brass
Brass Mass (1979)
4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba
4 trumpets, 4 trombones and tuba (ad lib.) Duration: 1’
Duration: 16’
Fp: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, cond.
Fp: Finnish Brass Ensemble, cond. Mikko
Jacques Mercier, Turku, May 9, 1990
Heiniö, Helsinki, April 15, 1980
2nd prize in the competition of the
350th Anniversary of the University of
Duo for Violin and Piano / Duo per
Helsinki
violino e pianoforte (1979)
manuscript
Duration: 16’30’’
Commissioned by the Finnish
Wintertime (1990)
Broadcasting Company
Seven Fragments for Vibraphone/
Fbp: Erkki Palola, violin, Risto Kyrö,
Marimba and Harp
piano, Finnish Broadcasting Company,
Duration: 9’
May 5, 1980
Fp: Risto Pulkkinen, vibraphone/
marimba, Mikko Leistola, harp,
Champignons à l´herméneutique
Stockholm, November 8, 1991
(1979)
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Divertimento for Flute and Guitar
Duration: 16’30’’
Piano Quintet (1993)
Fp: Liisa Ruoho, flute, Pekka Vesanen,
2 violins, viola, cello, piano
guitar, Helsinki, December 16, 1980
Text: Lewis Carroll (in English)
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Duration: 15’
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violin and cello
Duration: 13’
Commissioned by the Turku Music
Festival
Fp: Per Enoksson, violin, Martti Rousi,
cello, Turku, August 7, 1998
Treno della notte (2000)
Tremendous drive
Treno della notte is a simply splendid
work. It has tremendous drive from
beginning to end. …The syncopated beat
with traces of jazz and Klezmer sets feet
tapping.
Helsingin Sanomat 2001
Café au lait (2006)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
1. Le matin – Timporata
2. Mami Wata
3. Tipinti et Abalacodje – La nuit
Duration: 16’
Commissioned by the Turku Music
Festival
Fp: Anne Eirola, flute, Karin Dornbusch,
clarinet, Cecilia Zilliacus, violin, Erkki
Lahesmaa, cello, Henri Sigfridsson, piano,
Turku, August 19, 2006
A living Ravel
Café au lait was fragrant and throbbing
with snappy rhythms and timbres in
a way that Ravel, had he been alive
today, could, without any problem, have
embraced…
Hufvudstadsbladet 2006
Canzona (2006)
per trio d’archi
violin, viola and cello
1. Il grembo del vento estivo
(Dolce arioso) –
2. Il mattino fiero dell’autunno
(Deciso) –
3. Lo splendore immobile dell’inverno
(Maestoso e luminoso) –
4. Il blu e il verde della primavera
(Animato)
Duration: ca. 13’
Commissioned by the Nauvo Music
Festival
Fp: Tuomas Rousi, violin, Jussi Aalto,
viola, Roi Ruottinen, cello, Nauvo,
July 5, 2007
Piano Quartet “The Voice of
the Tree” (“Puun ääni”) (2006)
violin, viola, cello and piano
1. Questione (Andante recitativo e
pesante – Doppio movimento) –
2. Scherzo (Sciolto) –
3. Interno (Allegretto tranquillo)
Duration: 16’40”
Commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber
Music Festival
Fp: Philippe Graffin, violin, Eriikka
Nylund, viola, Marko Ylönen, cello, Heini
Kärkkäinen, piano, Kuhmo, July 19, 2007
Deductions I (1979)
Inspiring bull’s-eye
The Voice of the Tree proved to be an
inspiring bull’s-eye. …Playfulness and
absurdity, and having a merry fling
belong to the image of Heiniö the
composer.
Helsingin Sanomat 2008
Heiniö picks up where Debussy
and­Ravel left off
It is roundly astonishing how Mikko
Heiniö – a serialist twenty years ago –
can now write music which picks up
where Debussy and Ravel left off … if
you like Jeux d’Eaux, you’ll be at home
with his piano suite Deductions, which is
a major addition to the repertoire.
Finnish Music Quarterly 2007
WORKS FOR SOLO
INSTRUMENT
Lindgreniana (1975)
oboe
Duration: 10’
Fp: Aale Lindgren, Helsinki,
March 10, 1980
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Suite for Bassoon (1976)
Duration: 10’
Fbp: Matti Tossavainen, Finnish
Broadcasting Company, 1977
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Three Repetitive Dreams /
Kolme repetitiivistä unta (1982)
piano
Duration: 9’
Fp: Matti Raekallio, Jyväskylä,
July 4, 1983
Publisher: Modus Music
piano
Duration: 17’
Fp: Annikka Konttori, Helsinki,
November 23, 1979
Into Sleep / Uneen (1986)
piano
Duration: 2’
Commissioned by Jasemusiikki
Fbp: Annikka Konttori, Finnish
Broadcasting Company, 1988
Publisher: Jasemusiikki
Ritornelli (1991)
piano
Duration: 8’
Fp: Liisa Pohjola, Helsinki, April 28, 1992
The High Sky /
Den höga himlen (2007)
organ
Duration: 9’30”
Commissioned by Ville Urponen with
the support of Madetoja Foundation
Fp: Ville Urponen, Turku,
October 25, 2008
A recital of chamber music by Heiniö was held in Beijing in 2008
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Piano Quartet “The Voice of the Tree”
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Piano Quartet
Mikko Heiniö 21
CHORAL WORKS
Drei finnische Volkslieder /
Kolme kansanlaulua (1977)
double mixed choir
Text in Finnish and in German,
translation by the composer
1. Tirlil
2. Sommernacht / Kesäyönä
3. Der Spielmann / Pelimanni
Duration: 8’
Fp: Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, cond.
Harald Andersén, Rovaniemi, 1977
Kinerva (1978)
tenor and male choir
Text: Finnish folk poetry (in Finnish)
Duration: 7’
Commissioned by the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Fp: Helsinki University Chorus (YL), cond.
Matti Hyökki, Helsinki, May 14, 1980
manuscript
Landet som icke är
(The Land That Is Not) (1980)
children’s or female choir and piano
Text: Edith Södergran (in Swedish, with a
Finnish translation by the composer)
Duration: 19’
Commissioned by the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Fp: Finnish Radio Children’s Choir, Pertti
Eerola, piano, cond. Heinz Hofmann,
Helsinki, May 12, 1981
Mannerkantaatti
(Continent Cantata) (1985)
soprano, baritone, mixed choir and
orchestra
2222/4331/12/0, piano, strings
Text: Lassi Nummi (in Finnish)
Duration: 60’
Fp: Satu Vihavainen, soprano,
Pertti Lehtinen, baritone, Helsinki
Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Pertti
Pekkanen, Helsinki Festival,
August 21, 1992
manuscript
I den ljusa natten
(In the Light Night) (1985)
male choir
Text: Bo Carpelan (in Swedish)
Duration: 8’
Fp: Akademiska Sångföreningen, cond.
Tom Eklundh, Helsinki, March 7, 1988
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Genom kvällen
(Through the Evening) (1986)
(Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4)
piano, mixed choir and string orchestra
Text: Bo Carpelan (in Swedish)
Duration: 26’
Commissioned by the City of Espoo
Fp: Liisa Pohjola, piano, Tapiola Chamber
Choir, Tapiola Sinfonietta, cond. Juhani
Lamminmäki, Espoo, May 21, 1989
Minimba 2 (1988)
male choir
Duration: 5’
Commissioned by Muntra Musikanter
Fp: Muntra Musikanter, cond. Markus
Westerlund, Helsinki, March 26, 1993
manuscript
Wind Pictures (Tuulenkuvia) (1991)
2222/4331/03/1, synthesizer, strings,
mixed choir
Texts: L. F. Kämtz, Bible (Psalm 103),
Eduard Mörike, Francesco Petrarca
(in German, Latin and Italian)
Duration: 35’
Commissioned by the Chorus
Cathedralis Aboensis
Fp: Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Jacques
Mercier, Turku, November 26, 1992
Luceat (1992)
mixed choir
Text: Fragments from Requiem text
(in Latin)
Duration: 10’
Commissioned by the Jubilate Choir
Fp: Jubilate Choir, cond. Astrid Riska,
Helsinki, December 6, 1992
Skålbordun (1993)
male choir
Text: Folk songs (in Swedish)
Duration: 5’
Commissioned by the Helsinki
University Chorus (YL)
Fp: Helsinki University Chorus, cond.
Matti Hyökki, Mikkeli, March 18, 1994
Non-Stop (1995)
mixed choir
Duration: 11’30”
Commissioned by the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Fp: Finnish Radio Chamber Choir,
cond. Heikki Liimola, Helsinki,
October 13, 1995
Juhlamarssi hiljaisille miehille
(Festive March for Quiet Men) (1996)
male choir
Duration: 5’
Fp: Polytech Choir, cond. Tapani Länsiö,
Turku, May 10, 1997
Pikavuaro Turkku
(Turku Express) (2002)
mixed choir
Text: Heli Laaksonen (in Finnish)
1. Aurink kunnas
2. Stari
3. Kaukka kaunis
4. Kiittämättömi
5. Lehm ja koiv
Duration: 14’30’’
Commissioned by the Turku University
Student Choir (TYY), dedicated to
the memory of Jaakko Fredman
Fp: TYY, cond. Tapani Saarinen, Turku,
May 10, 2002
Tomumieli (Mind of Dust) (2003)
male choir and two djembe drums
Text: Lassi Nummi (in Finnish)
Duration: 6’30’’
Commissioned by the Helsinki University
Chorus
Fp: Helsinki University Chorus, cond.
Matti Hyökki, Helsinki, April 5, 2003
Splendid setting
The programme concludes with one
of the strongest items: Mind of Dust,
Mikko Heiniö’s splendid setting of Lasse
Nummi’s evocation of the terracotta
warriors at Xian for male choir and two
West African Drums.
Nordic Sounds 2005
The Bishop’s Spring Dream (2005)
five male voices (5 or 15 singers)
Text: Juha Siltanen (in English)
Duration: 6’30”
Commissioned by Talla for the
Northlights Project with the support of
the Madetoja Foundation
Fp: Lamentabile Consort, Quattro
stagioni and Talla, Tampere Vocal Music
Festival, Tampere, June 9, 2005
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Vocal Works
Neljä yölaulua (Four Night Songs)
(1972)
baritone or contralto and piano
(also available as a version for orchestra)
Text: Mikko Heiniö (in Finnish)
Duration: 10’
Fp: Olavi Hautsalo, baritone, Pentti
Koskimies, piano, Helsinki, May 10, 1973
manuscript
Tre böner (Three Prayers) (1976)
baritone and piano
Text: Elmer Diktonius (in Swedish)
Duration: 9’
Fbp: Olavi Hautsalo, baritone, Mikko
Heiniö, piano, Finnish Broadcasting
Company, 1978
manuscript
Halllieder (1977)
soprano and piano
Text: Constanze Hall (in German)
Duration: 10’
Fp: Anette Hall, soprano, Mikko Heiniö,
piano, West Berlin, May 21, 1977
manuscript
The Shadow of the Future /
Framtidens skugga (1980)
soprano, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones and
tuba
Text: Edith Södergran (in Swedish,
with an English translation by Jeremy
Parsons)
Duration: 22’
Fp: Rita Bergman, soprano, Finnish Brass
Ensemble, cond. Mikko Heiniö, Helsinki,
March 14, 1981
La (1985)
Quintet for Piano and Four Voices
(soprano, mezzo-soprano/contralto,
tenor, baritone)
Duration: 10’
Commissioned by the Association of
Finnish Soloists
Fp: Gustav Djupsjöbacka, piano, Merja
Wirkkala, soprano, Eeva-Liisa Saarinen,
mezzo-soprano, Risto Saarman, tenor,
Sauli Tiilikainen, baritone, Helsinki,
March 9, 1986
Three Morning Songs (2003)
baritone and piano
Text: Juha Siltanen (in English)
Sextet (2000)
baritone, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Texts: fragments from Ultime lettere by Ugo Foscolo (in Italian); letters by
John Keats (in English) and Franz Kafka (in German)
1. Ritornello I (attacca)
2. Aria I
3. Ritornello II
4. Scherzo (attacca)
5. Ritornello III (attacca subito)
6. Aria II
7. Ritornello IV
Duration: 18’
Commissioned by Tommi Hakala
Fp: Tommi Hakala, baritone, Focus Ensemble (Esa-Veli Riuttamäki, flute,
Mikko Kauppinen, clarinet, Liisi Nuora, violin, Juha Malmivaara, cello,
Katariina Liimatainen, piano), Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, July 8, 2000
Modern music that sings
The most impressive piece on the disc is Mikko Heiniö’s Sextet. …Heiniö has
done a fine job solving the problem of writing modern music that sings.
Helsingin Sanomat 2003
1. The End
2. Aubade
3. Jazz
Duration: 13’
Commissioned by Tommi Hakala with
support of the Foundation for the
Promotion of Finnish Music LUSES
Professori Huldénin aika-aaria
(Professor Huldén’s Aria) (2006)
from the opera Käärmeen hetki
voice and piano
Text: Juha Siltanen (in Finnish)
Syyskesän laulu
(Late Summer Song) (2008)
bass and piano (also available a version
for chamber orchestra)
Text: Lassi Nummi (in Finnish)
Duration: 17’
1. Suuri valo (The Great Light)
2. Kun saavumme tähän hetkeen
(When We Reach this Moment)
3. Tämä outo seutu (This Strange
Region)
4. Virran partaalla (By the Stream)
5. Välimeri (The Mediterranean)
6. Taivaalla kuu (The Moon in the Sky)
7. Syyskesä (Late Summer)
Commissioned by the Turku and Kaarina
Parish Union
Publisher: Fennica Gehrman unless otherwise mentioned • Fp: First performance • Fbp: First broadcast performance
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Discography
Genom kvällen
Finlandia 1576-53378-2 (FACD 378) (1989)
Liisa Pohjola, piano, Tapiola Chamber
Choir, Espoo Chamber Orchestra, cond.
Juhani Lamminmäki
Vuelo de alambre, Possible Worlds –
A Symphony
Finlandia 1576-54408-2 (FACD 408) (1991)
Karita Mattila, soprano, Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Jacques
Mercier
Suite for flute and two guitars
Nikolauscommunity NCD 2 (1991)
Rainer Risberg, flute, Jorma Salmela,
Hannu Siiskonen, guitars
Kolme kansanlaulua (Drei Finnische
Volkslieder)
Ondine ODE 796-2 (1992)
Tapiola Chamber Choir, cond. Eric-Olof
Söderström
Minimba 1
Finngospel FGCD 1074 (1993)
Jam Quartet (Matts Kulvik, Paul Pajarinen,
Juho-Pekka Putkonen, Kari Rantanen,
guitars)
Ritornelli
Sibelius Academy SACD-4 (1994)
Liisa Pohjola, piano
Duo for Violin and Piano
MILS 9439 (1994)
Sakari Tepponen, violin, Liisa Pohjola,
piano
Tuulenkuvia (Wind Pictures)
Finlandia 1576-54452-2 (FACD 544522)
(1994)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus
Cathedralis Aboensis, cond. Jacques
Mercier
Vuelo de alambre
Finlandia 4509-99403-2 (1995)
Karita Mattila, soprano, Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Jacques
Mercier
Piano Quintet
Skålbordun
Finlandia 4509-98993-2 (1995)
Helsinki University Chorus (YL), cond.
Matti Hyökki
Hermes, In G
Ondine ODE 870-2 (1996)
Juhani Lagerspetz, piano, Camilla
Nylund, soprano, Ostrobothnian
Chamber Orchestra, cond. Juha Kangas,
Tuija Rantamäki, cello
Piano Trio
Fifty Fifty Records FFCD-1014 (1996)
Simo Vuoristo, violin, Jukka Perksalo,
cello, Jukka Juvonen, piano
Lindgreniana
Suomen oboe- ja fagottiseura FUGA
9102 (1998)
Tommi Mentu, oboe
Vuelo de alambre, Possible Worlds
– A Symphony, Wind Pictures,
Genom kvällen, Skålbordun
Finlandia 3984-23404-2 (2 CD; 1999)
“Meet the Composer”
various performers (previously released
material)
Juhlamarssi hiljaisille miehille
(Festive March for Quiet Men)
Polyteknikkojen Kuoro PKCD16 (1999)
“Matkalla / Male Voice Voyage”
Polytech Choir, cond. Tapani Länsiö
Piano Trio
Tritonus TRICD-001 (2000) “Poike”
Jukka Juvonen, piano, Simo Vuoristo,
violin, Jukka Perksalo, cello
Landet som icke är
LYRANCD-2 (2001) “Lust”
Akademiska Damkören Lyran,
cond. Kari Turunen
The Knight and the Dragon
(Riddaren och draken)
Sextet
JaseCD0040 (2003)
Tommi Hakala, baritone, Focus Ensemble
(Katariina Liimatainen, piano, Liisi
Nuora-Kapanen, violin, Juha Malmivaara,
cello, Mikko Raasakka, clarinet, Esa-Veli
Riuttamäki, flute)
Tomumieli (Mind of Dust)
Ondine ODE 1045-2 (2004)
Helsinki University Chorus (YL), cond.
Matti Hyökki
Pikavuaro Turkku (Turku Express)
TYYK 004 (2004)
Turku University Student Choir (TYY),
cond. Tapani Saarinen
Minimba I
Fuga 9194 (2004)
Kari Äikäs, Ilmari Hytönen, Juan Antonio
Muro, Pekka Vesanen, guitars
Deductions
JaseCD 0045 (2007) “PianoHorizons”
Tuomas Mali, piano
Symphony No. 2 “Songs of Night
and Love”, Alla madre
Sony BMG (2009)
Tommi Hakala, baritone, Kurt Nikkanen,
violin, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra,
cond. Petri Sakari
BIS-CD-1246 (2001)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra,
Turku Opera Chorus and soloists,
cond. Ulf Söderblom
Ondine ODE 865-2 (1995)
Avanti! Quartet (John Storgårds, violin,
Anna Hohti, II violin, Tuula Riisalo, viola,
Lea Pekkala, cello), Jaana Kärkkäinen,
piano
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Sextet
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Sextet
Mikko Heiniö 27
CD sampler
1. Possible Worlds
3rd movement Placidamente – Appassionato (excerpt)
Turku PO / Jacques Mercier
Finlandia CD 3984-23404-2
3:36
2. Vuelo de alambre (Barbed-wire Flight)
4th movement Fué anoche (It Happened Last Night)
Turku PO / Jacques Mercier, sol. Karita Mattila
Finlandia CD 3984-23404-2
5:53
3. Symphony No. 2 Songs of Night and Love
2nd movement Meren hiljaisuus
(The Silence of the Night) (excerpt)
Finnish RSO/Hannu Lintu, sol. Tommi Hakala
Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)
6:25
4. Wind Pictures
4th movement Tuuli Maria
Turku PO/Jacques Mercier, Chorus Cathedralis
Aboensis /Juha Kuivanen
Finlandia CD 3984-23404-2
7:06
5.– 6. Riddaren och draken (The Knight and the Dragon)
Act 1, scenes 4&5
Turku PO / Ulf Söderblom, Turku Opera Chorus
and soloists
BIS-CD-1246
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12:55
7. On the Rocks
(excerpt)
Finnish RSO / Sakari Oramo
YLE
3:35 8. Khora, Piano Concerto No. 7
5th movement Khora II (excerpt)
Kroustikon Percussion Ensemble / Risto Pulkkinen,
sol. Jussi Laukola
4:31
9. Hermes, Piano Concerto No. 6
8th movement Finale (excerpt)
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra / Juha Kangas,
sol. Juhani Lagerspetz, Camilla Nylund
Ondine ODE 870-2
3:45
10. Sextet
4th movement Scherzo
Focus Ensemble, sol. Tommi Hakala
JaseCD 0040
3:13
11. Piano Quintet (excerpt)
Avanti! Quartet & Jaana Kärkkäinen
Ondine ODE 865-2
5:50
12. Piano Quartet The Voice of the Tree (Puun ääni)
3rd movement Interno (excerpt)
Philippe Graffin (vl), Eriikka Nylund (vla),
Marko Ylönen (vc), Heini Kärkkäinen (pf )
YLE
3:09
13. Non Stop
(excerpt)
Radio Chamber Choir / Heikki Liimola
YLE
3:13
14. Pikavuaro Turkku (Turku Express)
4th movement Kiittämättömi Turku University Student Choir (TYY) / Tapani Saarinen
TYYK 004
2:21
Editor: Henna Salmela
Design: Pirkko Huttunen
CV text and work list: © Fimic
Photos: Society of Finnish Composers / Annu Mikkonen (cover photo),
Finnish National Opera / Stefan Bremer, Fimic / Maarit Kytöharju, Robert Seger,
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra / Seilo Ristimäki, ERI Dance Theatre / Jari Laurikko
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