Album for Male Voices, op.30

Grieg's Album for Mandssang (Album for Male Voices), op.30, is acknowledged to be one of his best works and indeed the high point of the whole of the Norwegian male-voice choir repertoire. Percy Grainger, in the introduction to his own translations of the songs, ¹ writes that Grieg considered this album ‘the most important of his choral compositions’. In terms of male-voice choir music, this is undoubtedly true. However, in terms of music for mixed choir, it is the Four Psalms, op.74, that must take the crown.