Fennica Gehrman

The lyric Tuule, tuuli leppeämmin now available as a separate edition for descant chorus. It has earlier been available only as a part of a larger collection.

Frauenchor (Kinderchor) (SSAA)

Sibelius composed Den 25 Oktober 1902 for mixed choir as a birthday gift to a friend, Thérèse Hahl (1842-1911) who enjoyed a position of high esteem in Helsinki concert life and was a sought-after ora...

Mysterious yet lyrical, Lars Karlsson's setting for mixed choir to Paula Hiekkala's poem Mare crisium (1990) is a beautiful journey from stormy sea towards radiant peace.

Julinatt på ön (A July Night on an Island, 1974/2022) for mixed choir by Lars Karlsson is set to Arvid Mörne's text in Swedish. A peaceful and atmospheric song lasts about 2 minutes.

Alex Freeman's Under the arching heavens: A Requiem (2018) was commissioned by Nils Schweckendiek and the Helsinki Chamber Choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Finnish civil war. Str...

Alex Freeman's A Wilderness of Sea (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) draws from four of Shakespeare's most famous works. It emphasizes a common thread among those works that addresses two of the most universal aspec...

Matthew Whittall's large-scale choral song cycle Songs of Travel (2020-2021) is set to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), compiled and adapted by the composer. The opening song, Home no more...

Johanna Almark - singer, orchestra and choral conductor, composer, arranger and violinist - is one of Finland's most versatile musicians. "The rain it raineth every day" is a swinging 21st century mad...

New edition (2024)! Joonas Kokkonen's (1921-1996) Laudate Domini (1966) for mixed chorus and soprano is the most important of Kokkonen's works for choir. In these five movements the composer demonstra...

Zibuokle Martinaityté's Ululation (2023) for mixed choir developes entirely from the ululating gesture. The composer tells: The idea of ululations as an audible, ritualistic expression of mourning bec...

A commission by the Koiton Laulu choir and set on Kai Nieminen's poems, the work is an allegory of love. Kortekangas's music is expressive and supports the story of the poems.

This anthology of 17 Estonian folk songs were arranged for mixed choir by Veljo Tormis in 1988 ( revised in 1993). Original songs are from folk song collection Eesti rahvalaule viisidega (volume 2). T...

A work in one movement, Timo-Juhani Kyllönen's Contemplation in Blue for alto flute (1999) concentrates on the contemplation of shades of blue and also contains elements of blues.

Juha is a three-act opera by Aarre Merikanto (1893-1958), with a Finnish libretto by Aino Ackté-Jalander based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Juhani Aho. Although completed by 1922, it was only...

Three Songs to Texts by Mawlana Rumi by Kalevi Aho have texts in Finnish translations.

Suite for mixed choir to texts by Hannele Huovi (in Finnish).

Finnish conductor and composer Nils-Eric Fougstedt composed some of the warmest and most enchanting choral songs in the Swedish language. His harmonic language and choice of texts, from nature and the...

Finnish conductor and composer Nils-Eric Fougstedt composed some of the warmest and most enchanting choral songs in the Swedish language. His harmonic language and choice of texts, from nature and the...

Finnish conductor and composer Nils-Eric Fougstedt composed some of the warmest and most enchanting choral songs in the Swedish language. His harmonic language and choice of texts, from nature and the...