All music below are composed or arranged by me and are free to download. Click on the titles to open pdf files with the sheet music and click on LISTEN to hear the pieces.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Persson, Thomas / Affettuoso from Sonata for solo soprano saxophone (Dedicated to Anders Paulsson) LISTEN (Live from Sofia kyrka)
Affettuoso was premiered 3 December 2022 in Sofia kyrka in Stockholm by the soprano saxophone player Anders Paulsson. The piece is included in his project Solitary Poems.
MIXED CHOIR
Boye, Karin / Om detta livet är det enda LISTEN
Lyrics by one of Sweden’s greatest poets, Karin Boye (1900 – 1941). The text is about how short life is and that you have to take care of every moment.
Boye, Karin / Sommardag LISTEN
Meditative depiction of nature when time stand still on a summer’s day.
A person looks to the sky and admire the swallows flying skills.
Lilla Kören & Pelle Olofson perform my Dowland Suite live in Uppenbarelsekyrkan LISTEN
Dowland, John / Come Away, Come Sweet Love LISTEN
The renaissance composer John Dowland (1562/63 – 1626), is one of my favorits. I just love his music for solo lute and his lute songs. I’ve taken the lyrics from four of Dowland’s lute songs and written new music.
Dowland, John / Come, Heavy Sleep LISTEN
Dowland, John / Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled LISTEN
Dowland, John / Wilt Thou, Unkind, Thus Reave Me LISTEN
Fletcher, Phineas / Drop, Drop, Slow Tears LISTEN
Many composers has put music to the lyrics Drop, Drop, Slow Tears. This is my version.
Shakespeare Suite
Premiered by Lilla kören & Pelle Olofson 22 October 2022, Sofia kyrka
Shakespeare, William / 1. Sonnet 97, How like a winter hath my absence been LISTEN (Live from Sofia kyrka)
Shakespeare, William / 2. Sonnet 47, Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took LISTEN (Live from Sofia kyrka)
Shakespeare, William / 3. Sonnet 98, From you have I been absent in the spring LISTEN (Live from Sofia kyrka)
Shakespeare, William / 4. Sonnet 75, So are you to my thoughts as food to life LISTEN (Live from Sofia kyrka)
Stagnelius, E J / Näcken LISTEN
Näcken is a mysterious creature who plays violin naked by the creek.
Swedish Folk Tune / Eklundapolskan LISTEN
Fast Swedish polska with a lot of energy.
Swedish Folk Tune / Polska från Medelpad LISTEN
This polska was made famous through the Swedish jazz pianist
Jan Johansson’s recording Jazz på svenska.
Swedish Folk Tune / Vi sålde våra hemman LISTEN
Sad lyrics about people who left Sweden between 1851 och 1910 to seek a better life in North America.
Södergran, Edith / Ett liv LISTEN
Edith Södergran (1892 – 1923) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet.
Ett liv (One life) is mysterious and hard to grasp, but that makes the text even more interesting.
Södergran, Edith / Nocturne LISTEN
Sensitive lyrics about moonlight evening in nature.
MALE CHOIR
Carl Michael Bellman (1740 – 1795) is one of the greatest in the Swedish song tradition.
Bellman, C M / Bort allt vad oro gör LISTEN
Premiered by Stockholms Studentsångare (Stockholm Academic Male Chorus) & Pelle Olofson
Bellman, C M / Glimmande nymf LISTEN
Glimmande nymf is one of Bellman’s most intimate songs.
Bellman, C M / Käraste bröder, systrar och vänner LISTEN
Premiered by Stockholms Studentsångare (Stockholm Academic Male Chorus) & Pelle Olofson
Dear brothers, sisters and friends. Tune the fiddle and play, it’s partytime!
Bellman, C M / Lilla Charles, sov sött i frid LISTEN
This song is about Bellman’s little son who died at a very young age.
Bellman, C M / Är jag född, så vill jag leva LISTEN
Cheerful song. Sing, dance and enjoy as long as you live!
Children’s Song / Bockarna Bruse LISTEN
The little, the middle and the big goat meets a dangerous hobgoblin when they try to pass a bridge.
Children’s Song / Elva Dromedarer LISTEN
Eleven dromedaries are on their way to the town to get some treats.
Children’s Song / Imse Vimse Spindel LISTEN
Itsy Bitsy Spider with a jazzy groove.
Linnros, Oskar / Psalm för skolgårdar LISTEN
Psalm for Schoolyards, very beautiful ballad by the Swedish singer/songwriter Oskar Linnros. Arrangement for male choir and alto soloist.
THOMAS PERSSON - Composer 