Classical Music

This beautiful text by Canadian poet Bliss Carman speaks to themes of peace, thankfulness and humility. The texture is mostly homophonic with brief sections of divisi to illuminate colors and images i...

The final track on Jacob Collier's four-part, genre-bending, award-winning and world-conquering Djesse album series, this seven minute choral opus was recorded in partnership with Jason Max Ferdinand...

The final track on Jacob Collier's four-part, genre-bending, award-winning and world-conquering Djesse album series, this seven minute choral opus was recorded in partnership with Jason Max Ferdinand...

Puisque tout passe - [Since all is passing] is one of six songs for mixed choir from 1939. It is one of the most natural and spontaneous pieces among Hindemith's a cappella choral works. This work is...

Peteris Vasks komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an die Landschaft seines Heimatlandes Litauen: W...

Peteris Vasks komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an sein Vaterland Litauen. Durch die Aussprachhi...

Daybreak by Christi Jones, with contributions from her teenage son Carson Jones, is a powerful a cappella piece for developing mixed choir featuring body percussion. The music begins in a haunting min...

This SATB work, originally commissioned for women's choir,  is an energetic reimagining of timeless text and tune from the 12th century poet, composer, and philosopher Hildegard of Bingen. The marriag...

Narverud's done it again with Cantate, a powerful, well-crafted concert opener. His SATB a cappella, heart-pounding, canonic work contains driving rhythms and cluster chords. A  must sing!

The joyful, cascading introduction begins from a unison note, setting the tone for Narverud's canonic-like setting of the famous Teasdale poem Life has loveliness to sell.   Like a heartbeat, the rhyt...

Motet for five voices (SATBB) for Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1994, for the 500th anniversary of the University of Aberdeen, Judith Weir wrote two settings of 17th century English verse and choir, entitles Two Human Hymns. In 1997, Weir arranged the first of...

The enormous range of publications for mixed choir is published in the Choir Library in volumes for secular and sacred repertoire, respectively. The secular repertoire is divided into two volumes of u...

The hymn from the tone poem Finlandia op. 26 for orchestra, one of the best-known works of Jean Sibelius, became the unofficial national anthem of Finland with the text of Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1...

The fact that Miklós Rózsa wrote choral works in addition to film scores, orchestral works and chamber music is only known to a few people today. The best known is the motet "To Everything There Is a...

The motet "The Vanities of Life" op. 30 was written by Miklós Rózsa in 1964 as a commission for the Pacific Lutheran University Choir in Tacoma, Washington. The choir performed the work for the first...

Swiss up your choir! The choral collection Swiss Choral Music is a real treasure trove of recent choral music from Switzerland. As diverse as the country itself, this volume of approximately 30 choral...

The Mendelssohn family cultivated a very special form of house music in their garden cottage on the family estate: the so-called Sonntagsmusiken (Sunday musicales). Perhaps this inspired Fanny Hensel...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

During his stay in Rome in 1841 and 1842, Hiller and his family were the center of the German artists' colony in the "eternal city". The versatile composer studied Roman vocal polyphony after Giovanni...