Classical Music

A Cradle Song by William Blake (1757-1827) depicts a mother's love for her child. In his choral setting, Fredrik Sixten creates a bright-sounding piece full of affection and atmospheric warmth. The pi...

Ilus Hääl was arranged in honor of the 100th anniversary of Estonia, neighbor of Latvia, the home of composer, arranger, and singer Laura Jēkabsone. The two countries are united by their love of song...

The original mixed voice setting of Earth Song (HPC7098) is one of the most popular titles in the entire Hinshaw catalogue. Both high school and collegiate ensembles have found success with the work....

Nineteenth-century German composer Carl Bohm wrote sturdy and dependable music for the voice. John Leavitt brings his scholarship to this beautiful piece full of word painting and packed with emotion.

This work was inspired by the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'. The lilting vocal lines are underpinned by a delicate piano part, and the opening performance direct...

This is an accessible and fresh work for treble choirs on the themes of peace and hope. Approachable vocal lines and a supportive accompaniment make this appropriate for young treble choirs, while the...

December Moon expresses the wonder of waking to a new world, one in which things have changed and shifted while we were sleeping. This is a lovely and more accessible work available for both SSAA and...

Performed by the 2025 National ACDA High School Mixed Honor Choir, Silentium offers a profound and evocative setting of a poem that inspires and empowers the innermost voice. With shimmering harmonies...

This setting of Phineas Fletcher's text is gentle and flowing, with a lilting, descending motif to characterise the 'slow tears'. Archer offers nuanced dynamics and imitative entries in this simple bu...

TaReKiTa is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slides, and captivating melod...

This edition offers a significant earlier version of a section of the fourth motet, rescored passages from the fifth, helpful notes on performance, and supporting online materials. Comprehensive and p...

Do not neglect is a stand-alone movement from Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger, which uses a thought-provoking text from chapter 13 of the Epistle to the Hebrews: ‘Do not neglect to...

This setting of Christina Rossetti's poem Then Shall Ye Shout for unaccompanied double choir was commissioned by Help Musicians UK for its annual St Cecilia's Festival service and first performed by t...

Audio sample: "Harbour" (performed by Regenbogenchor München, dir. Mary Ellen Kitchens)

Repertoire of romantic choral music worth discovering: In his unaccompanied choral songs the expressive melodies of the song composer Schumann combine with a harmonically rich, sometimes even experime...

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...

'Broish McRoish' is a rhythmic piece based on traditional Gaelic sprechgesang - the so-called 'Puirt a beul' (mouth music). The text is meaningless, comparable to scat, and primarily serves to drive t...

Mendelssohn described the work, composed in 1840, to his friend Klingemann: "a symphony for choir and orchestra ... First 3 symphonic movements, followed by 12 choral and solo movements; the words fro...

The text is by Ralph Waldo Emerson and it gives thanks for creation, for life, and for the beginning of a new day. The melody captures the gratitude like a gentle breeze over a meadow. This is an anth...

Set to a popular text by Walter de la Mare, this secular work is an expressive homage to J. S. Bach, combining lyrical vocal lines with a contrapuntal accompaniment.