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  • Moiré

    Moiré is a concerto for natural horn and Baroque orchestra with orchestral natural horn obligato. Moiré was commissioned by Tommi Hyytinen and premiered by Tommi Hyytinen and Finnish Baroque Orchestra FiBO (under Tomas Djupsjöbacka) in Musica nova Helsinki 2021 festival,…
    January 28, 2021

  • Hämäläisten jumalat

    The Finnish language belongs to the languages, which were formally standardized through the Reformation-driven need to translate religious texts from Latin to vernacular. The early Finnish biblical translations laid the foundations of standard Finnish, and the translation work was accomplished…
    August 7, 2018

  • Ambrosian Delights

    Ambrosian Delights, a concerto for Knifonium and Baroque orchestra (2013) is a crossover work that combines the subtle Baroque period instruments with the grooving new retro tube analogue synthesizer, Knifonium. The 27-minute work consists of four attacca movements. The piece…
    July 29, 2018

  • Fantasia “Liberazione”

    Fantasia ”Liberazione” is a solo work for harpsichord in the traditional 1/4 comma meantone temperament (from Eb to G#). The piece begins as a chromatic chaconne with descending bass line, gradually starting to fall apart both rhythmically and harmonically and…
    August 7, 2018

  • Meren päällä ohuempaa

    ”Meren päällä ohuempaa is a three-movement work for Renaissance recoder quartet. During the compositional process I was simultaniously writing music for Yle Radio Theathre audio drama Urian kirje (Letter to Uriah). I used the Bravade recorder quartet as a performer…
    July 29, 2018

  • In nomine ´Shivering´

    In nomine ‘Shivering’ is Virtaperko’s second contribution to the polyphonic In nomine viol consort tradition, which flourished in England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In nomine settings were built around the cantus firmus Gloria Tibi Trinitas (from…
    August 4, 2018

  • Puumala-sarja

    ”Puumala-sarja (Puumala Suite) is named after the municipality of Puumala, located in Southern Savonia region by the vast Lake Saimaa. Since 2007 we have spent summer holidays in one of the rental cottages of Reposen lomamökit in Lietvesi (Hurissalo, Puumala),…
    September 22, 2018

  • Maatiaissarja

    ”Homebrew Suite (original Finnish title Maatiaissarja) is chronologically my second suite for solo treble viol. Similarily to Kansanmusiikkigambaa (2013) ja Puumala-sarja (2015) the Homebrew Suite combines the aesthetics of folk music and early music in instrumentally idiomatic way.The opening movement…
    February 10, 2019

  • In nomine revised

    In nomine revised connects to the English polyphonic In nomine viol consort tradition of the 16th century, where the plainchant melody Gloria Tibi Trinitas (from John Taverner’s six-voice mass from 1530) was used as a cantus firmus (often played by…
    August 5, 2018

  • Folk Suite for Treble Viol

    Written in 2013, Folk Suite for Treble Viol consists of five short movements that reflect Virtaperko’s recent, growing interest in the Nordic folk traditions. ”I wrote ‘Folk Suite’ primarily for my own amusement and use during the Summer holiday of…
    August 7, 2018