"Art should be able to stir us, to wake us from our dreaming and our torpor, so that we should be forced to take a stand...

America had Bing Crosby, Britain Al Bowlly, France Maurice Chevalier. In the pre-war years, every country had a charming gentleman singer who entertained us on records,...

Each generation of composers, every single composer, has, either deliberately or intuitively, been forced to solve the problems of how to combine the vertical elements of...

Jukka Tiensuu – composer, harpsichordist, pianist and musician: “I feel equally at home with music of all periods, and with different musical genres. If you want...

Eversince I became familiar with Stockhausen's tempered tempo scales and the organization of time in his 1950s pieces, the rhythmic element has been assuming an increasingly...

In his article from 1987 Markku Kilpiö takes a look at Finnish choral singing.

“. . . seule la métaphore est exacte ... “ (Roland Barthes) Eero Tarasti, successor to Erik Tawaststjerna as professor of music at the University of Helsinki,...

Magnus Lindberg, 28, is among the most internationally successful of young Finnish composers. This year his orchestral work KRAFT took 1st prize in the Unesco International...

Although still only 28, Esa-Pekka Salonen probably needs little introduction for anyone with even a moderate interest in classical music, since he has already gained what...