Terhi Dostal, the pianist on this album, composed her Sonatina for piano in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, which cancelled her concerts.
Ilmari Hannikainen's early compositions, including the Two Ballads on this album, were written when he was a teenager.
Helvi Leiviskä was the first Finnish female composer to write several large-scale orchestral works, including three symphonies.
Terhi Dostal, the Finnish pianist, launched her career as a soloist with the Kirov Orchestra of St. Petersburg under Valery Gergiev.
Jean Sibelius, a renowned Finnish composer, wrote many piano compositions, often due to financial difficulties to support his large family.
This album features the first recordings and printed sheet music of the corrected versions of Ilmari Hannikainen's ballads.
Ilmari Hannikainen, a Finnish pianist and composer, was the first professor of piano at the Sibelius Academy.
