Barbershop Sheet Music for Mixed Voices

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...

These vibrant preces and responses are a refreshing addition to the repertoire for choral evensong. The composer approached the text as prayers, sometimes highlighting exultation, sometimes vulnerabil...

This simple, four-part setting of the introit 'Rorate Caeli' captures both the hope and the intimacy traditionally associated with Advent. With its haunting, cascading phrases, it is a valuable additi...

This piece is inspired by a personal interpretation of the relationship with our divine origin. This work is characterized by the use of modal scales, secundal harmony, hemiolas, and 5/8 and 7/8 time...

Hear Us is an introspective piece that uses poem XXIII from John Donne's Litany. One of the most beloved English poets of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Donne's poem is both repentant and tho...

At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners: An Anthem for All Saints is a brisk piece for a cappella choir that sets John Donne's Holy Sonnet Number Seven for unaccompanied choir as an anthem for All Saint...