Classical Music

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...

Commissioned for Stile Antico by the Stile Antico Foundation. 3 minutes for trenor solo and mixed voices. I was delighted to be asked by Stile Antico to write a new piece for their ‘The Prince of Musi...

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...

With his Hebrew Choral Songbook, Ohad Stolarz presents a new collection of classics of the musical repertoire in Hebrew, arranged by him for mixed choir a cappella. Many of these pieces are published...

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...

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...

Great art in small forms – Bruckner's smaller sacred works reveal a more personal side to the master symphonist and creator of large-scale orchestral masses. Throughout his life, Bruckner’s deep faith...

Hugo Distler's Weihnachtsgeschichte op. 10 is in a deeply heartfelt style, and his Christmas motets, written at various points in his life, sound just as vivid in their expression. With madrigalian en...

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...

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...

With Soloists. Contents: I. Nicollette - II. Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis (3 lovely birds from Paradise) - III. Ronde (Roundelay).

Poem by Paul Painlevé. Text in French and English. Includes Soprano and Baritone solos.

Midwintersong is written for the winter solstice and is intended to be sung by as many as possible. The song originated around bonfires as a teachable singalong and has been formalized into the choral...

A work that will move both the performer and the listeners, the text explores the extreme conditions of the Holocaust and the impact on its victims, for advanced choirs.