Alex Freeman: Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem for mixed choir
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Alex Freeman: Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem for mixed choir

Freeman’s Requiem (2018) was commissioned by the Helsinki Chamber Choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Finnish civil war in 1918. Structured around the Latin liturgy of the mass for the dead, the work has a duration of more than an hour and incorporates poems in Finnish, Swedish and English, reflecting both the specific…

Mixed, Descant & Male choir works (PDF)

Mixed, Descant & Male choir works (PDF)

These choir classics from Fazer’s and Westerlund’s collections now available as downloadable PDF editions MIXED CHOIR:J.S. Bach: Unser Leben ist ein Schatten (Elo täällä on vain varjo, SSATTB-ATB) Buy nowTaneli Kuusisto: Oi Herrani, Jeesukseni (O Jesus Krist, mitt hopp förvisst, SSAATB) Buy now DESCANT CHOIR:Väinö Pesola: Talvi on (SSAA) Buy now

Kalevi Aho: Concerto for horn and chamber orchestra
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Kalevi Aho: Concerto for horn and chamber orchestra

Among the ambitious composition projects by Aho has been to write a concerto for each of the main instruments in the Romantic symphony orchestra. In 2011 the Horn Concerto was completed. The speciality of the work is that the soloist moves around the concert hall during the course of the work. Duration 27 minutes.Solo horn…

Matthew Whittall: Northlands – Concertino for horn and strings
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Matthew Whittall: Northlands – Concertino for horn and strings

Northlands (album for horn and string orchestra) is a concertante work for horn and strings. Whittall tells that it was influenced by his brief experience with Iceland, its epic landscapes and otherworldly light, which had had an immediate and powerful impact both on the composer and the concept for the piece. Duration 23 minutes. Solo…

Yrjö Kilpinen: Sonata for violin and piano
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Yrjö Kilpinen: Sonata for violin and piano

Yrjö Kilpinen is most known for his hundreds of lieds and song cycles. Large-scale Sonata for violin and piano is dated in 1935, but the work was never finished. In 2015 violinist Frida Backman commissioned a completion of the Sonata from composer Walter Wolff, the present publication is the first publication of the Sonata.