"Satellite Stories have already gained notable international attention for some years. Their merits include sold-out clubs in London, tracks with millions of listens on Spotify, and...

"The microphones are going to take some time to catch up with the astonishing flood of Finnish instrumental concertos since the turn of the 21st century,...

"Like moths to a flame, music lovers have flocked towards the work of Helsinki-based songwriter Manna ever since the mid-Noughties. Four releases down the road and...

"In 2015, JPP is still alive and kicking, and playing with as high quality as ever. They don’t play too often, but when they do there...

"Saxophonist and composer Eero Koivistoinen is one of the best-known Finnish jazz musicians. For fifteen years he also has composed music for the Juvenalia Choir."

"The Émilie Suite is a half-hour condensation, to a 2011 commission, of Saariaho’s monologue opera Émilie of 2007–8, reduced to three vocal numbers separated by two...

"It is a well-known fact that music was made and performed in great quantities in Finland during the 17th and 18th centuries. Nevertheless, Baroque music from...

"For some years jazz fusion (broadly defined) has seen something of a revival in Finland. Drummer and composer Mikko Hassinen’s new band and album Elektro GT...

"As an all-round survey, Tiikkaja’s biography earns its place as a solid basic treatise on the life and music of Einojuhani Rautavaara."