Fennica Gehrman

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.

Includes classic Christmas songs: 1 Now Stands Yule at the Snowy Gate, 2 Now is Christmas Coming, 3 O'ver Hill and Dale, 4 We Ask for Nothing Rich or Rare, 5 The Shining Snows. Timo Lehtovaara's new a...

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...

Chosen to challenge the level III player. Unaccompanied

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...

Under the heading of opus 1 Sibelius grouped together five Christmas carols for voice and piano, written between 1895 and 1913. Best known of these is Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt (We ask for N...

Jean Sibelius's Beloved Christmas Carols op. 1 Arranged by Teppo Salakka for male choir. In this publication, the lyrics of the songs are in Finnish. Christmas Arrives at the Gate (B-flat major) Greet...

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...