It is particularly in his choral music that Peteris Vasks reveals his strong attachment to his Latvian home country. Nature, customs and traditions and the idea of freedom are the central themes of the texts he sets to music, while carefully using modern techniques of choral singing as well. Alternating with traditional, even archaic singing, the music creates a multi-faceted, immediately effective sound image in the listener's mind.The poem 'Ziles zina' by the contemporary Latvian poet Uldis Berzins (*1944) centres on the themes of man, nature and transience in aphoristic brevity.Vasks wrote a piece of music on this poem which contains downright rewarding tasks for the choir and opens up to the listener a fascinating world of sound. / Choeur De Femmes (SSAA) A Cappella

The inspiring journey of the three kings to Bethlehem is beautifully told through words and music in Peter Maxwell Davies' wonderful setting of George Mackay Brown's text. The piece is arranged for SSAA voices a cappella but aPiano part is provided for rehearsal purposes.

Originally set for mixed voices with piano (HMC2409) this piece has become one of the most popular works in the Hinshaw catalog. It's energy has been a hit for both adult and high school choirs. Here Peter Anglea sets the piece for 4 part treble voices-a wonderful new addition for treble choirs.

Søstrene - Suite Fra 'Den Lille Havfrue' for Girl's Choir SSAA was composed by Bent Sørensen in 2006 for the Danish National Girl's Choir. Text by Peter Asmussen based on 'The Little Mermaid' by H. C. Andersen.

Instrumentation : SSAA a cappella CHORAL VIVACE is a major new choral series by the internationally-acclaimed Australia composer Sandra Milliken. Contact us to receive your free CHORAL VIVACE sampler CD Content : The series consists of a varied collection of choral music for upper and mixed voices and is graded into three levels - easy, intermediate and advanced.

Women in Love by Matthew Harris arranged for Six-Part Women's Chorus A Cappella.

Instrumentation : SSAA (Lat.) Unaccompanied. Vocal Score Content : O bone Jesu SSAA; Adoramus SSAA; Regina Coeli SA Soli, SSAA. Unaccompanied.

Music runs through the story of Arion which begins with a singing competition in Sicily. Arion wins the prize and this puts his life in danger: his newfound wealth excites the greed of the sailors who are supposed to be bringing him back to Corinth and they threaten to kill him. They allow Arion to sing one last song and the power of his singing attracts dolphins to the ship.  At the end of his song he jumps overboard and one of the dolphins carries him to safety.  So Arion’s musical gift gets him into trouble but it is also his salvation.   The idea of being rescued by a music-loving dolphin is very appealing. In Robert Graves’account of the myth the dolphin could not bear to be parted from Arion and accompanied him back to court where “it soon succumbed to a life of luxury.”  However Herodotus says that after his rescue and return to Corinth Arion failed to return the dolphin to the sea and it died there.  Apollo placed the dolphin among the stars and next to it Arion’s lyre in recognition of his musical skill.  This is one of the mythical explanations of the origins of the constellations Delphinus and Lyra. It seems natural to sing a story that has singing at its heart. When I was asked by the Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust to write a choral work for Making Music something that would be within reach of many choirs and involve children this story struck me as ideal: the men of the chorus could be the bloodthirsty sailors and the women could create an atmosphere of mystery for the arrival of the dolphins represented by children’s voices. There would be one solo voice: Arion the marvellous singer. Andrew Fardell the conductor who was advisor to this commission had suggested that I might use the same instrumentation as a popular arrangement of Orff’s Carmina Burana a work that as well as using children’s chorus features a solo countertenor. I thought the magical otherworldly quality of this

Instrumentation: SSATB a cappella Format: Sheet Music Details: 12 madrigals for 5 voices (Italian/German) Contents: Contents: Ch'ami la vita mia; A che tormi il ben mio; Non si levav' ancor; E dicea luna; S'andasse amor a caccia; O com' e gran martire; Ch'io non t'ami; Anima mia perdona; Che se tu se il cor mio; O Mirtillo; Era l'anima mia gia presso; M'e pi' dolce il penar

Born in 1977 in Latvia Eriks Esenvalds is an original and sought-after voice of the Baltic music tradition. Commissioners have included the Latvian Radio Choir and State Choir ‘Latvija’ the Britten Sinfonia Trinity College Choir Cambridge Temple University (USA) the Boston Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. His work is recorded on a number of CDs. Eriks Esenvalds is a former Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College University of Cambridge.