New choral music spring 2025
New works for advanced choirs! Thrilling new scores by Nana Forte, Daniel Möller, Carl Unander-Scharin, Oskar Österling and Staffan Storm.
In her setting of Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells for the World Youth Choir 2023, Nana Forte has used Poe's intense and varied text about the bells that ring for the different stages of life as a starting point. Up-tempo, exciting and challenging. SMzATBB a cappella. Listen on YouTube .
Daniel Möller reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Nothing will die on two different levels; partly as a description of the changing seasons, partly as a depiction of our inner life. A varied work in three parts, premiered by Sofia Vokalensemble and Bengt Ollén. For SMzATBarB a cappella.
Oskar Österling talks about his setting of Oscar Wilde's words in De profundis : "Like the opening stanza of the psalm, the music rises from the depths, from bass and tenors in a low tessitura. The music then gradually increases in both volume and register, to a great climax on the text "but nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike...", and then sinks into the depths again at the end, down to a B flat, if the basses are brave." For SATB div. a cappella. Also available as digital sheet music .
Carl Unander-Scharin has adapted songs from Piae Cantiones from 1582 in his Salve flos et decor ecclesiae , dedicated to the Västerås Cathedral motet choir, conductor Johan Hammarström and organist Stephen Cleobury. Carl's adaptation and newly composed music opens up a musical universe of its own with medieval inspiration. For SATB double choir and organ.
Awake, O north wind by Malmö composer Staffan Storm was written for a summer tour on the theme of Höga visan with Vokalharmonin and Fredrik Malmberg. Beautiful and virtuoso music with challenging passages for all voices, with fast sequences and runs. For SATB a cappella.