This new anthology of Part's choral works replaces the earlier one published in 1999. It is even more representative of Part's work, not only because of the recent additions, but because of the very welcome decision to include two selections from his major a cappella work, Kanon Pokajanen. The revised selection is also carefully geared towards the music represented on three CDs, all of which were recorded in consultation with the composer. introduced by Paul Hillier.

Songlist: Arvo Part, Observation on the Performance of Arvo Part's choral music, Bemerkungen zur Auffuhrungspraxis der Chorwerke Arvo Parts, Remarques sur l'interpretation des oeuvres chorales d'Arvo Part, Werkvezeichnis- List of Works- Catalogue des oeuvres, An den Wassen zu Babel saben wir und weinten, Beatus Petronius, Cantate Domino canticum novum, Da Pacem, Domine, De profundis, Dopo la vittoria, Gebet nach dem Kanon, I Am the True Vine, Littlemore Tractus, Magnificat, Memento (Ode VII), Missa syllabica (a cappella), Most Holy Mother of God, Nunc dimittis, Salve Regina, Sieben Magnificat- Anthiphonen, Solfeggio, Statuit ei Dominus, Triodion, Veni creator, Which Was the Son of ..., Zwei slawische Psalmen

The Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds is a most sought-after choral composers working today, with a busy commission schedule and performances of his music heard on every continent.

Songlist: Who Is He?, Lielupe, O Salutaris Hostia, A Drop in the Ocean, Evening, This is my Father's World

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.

Songlist: Northern Lights, Stars, Ubi Caritas Et Amor, Benedictus Es, O Salutaris Hostia, Spring, The Sweet Spring, Who Can Sail Without The Wind, Gaujas Meita Rotataja

Commissioned by Classical Movements and premiered by the Latvian Voices at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, July 2017. An atmospheric 5-minute piece for upper voices with text written by pilot John Gillespie Magee Jr. experiencing a euphoric flight

Voicing: SSSAAA | Performed by Latvian Voices | 4576b | Songbook | $4.50 | A Cappella

Acclaimed Finnish composer creates a fascinating piece based on the Inuit Legend of The First Tear about a seal hunter who was so upset about his failure to catch a seal that he shed the very first tear.

Voicing: SATB | 4578b | Songbook | $15.50

The ecstatic collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere known as the 'aurora borealis' is the subject of Northern Lights, commissioned in 2012 by the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Named in 1621 by the French astronomer Pierre Gassendi

Songlist: Christ is Come with O Come All Ye Faithful, Light of the World, Heaven and Nature Sang, Angels Sing Gloria, The Wonder of it All, Noel! Noel!

The ecstatic collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere known as the 'aurora borealis' is the subject of Northern Lights, commissioned in 2012 by the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Named in 1621 by the French astronomer Pierre Gassendi

A second collection of choral works by Latvian composer Eriks Eoenvalds, in association with Musica Baltica.

Songlist: Amazing Grace, Stars, Only in Sleep, In my Little Picture Frame, Long Road

Born in 1977 in Latvia, Eriks Eoenvalds 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 Eoenvalds is a former Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. This choral anthology contains 8 pieces for Choir

Songlist: Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Northern Lights, Rivers of Light, The Heavens' Flock, The New Moon, The Earthly Rose, Psalm 67

Latvian Voices consider their main mission to be the introduction of Latvian culture and especially the musical heritage. Through songs and staging they introduce the listener to Latvian mentality and world-view that is deeply rooted in the mutual relationship between humans and nature. The repertoire of Latvian Voices is wide: Latvian folk songs and original compositions with lyrics from Latvian traditional folklore, examples of Classical music in inventive transcriptions. Includes pronunciation guide.

Songlist: Dindaru Dandaru, I Climbed Up The Hill, The Fisherman Invited Me, Rise, O Sun, Early in the Morning, Sun, Go Soon To God, Sing, Girls, In the Evening, Lullaby for Ancitis, The Moon Rode at Night, The Nightingale Sings Sweetly, I Visit with a Song

Voicing: SSAAA | Performed by Latvian Voices | 4550b | Songbook | $9.95 | A Cappella

Peteris Vasks' strong attachment to his Latvian home country shows particularly in his choral music. Nature, customs and traditions as well as 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. These six songs for female choir centre on the themes of man, nature and transience, and home in aphoristic brevity. Vasks wrote music on these folk poems which contains rewarding tasks for the choir and opens up a fascinating world of sound to the listener.

Songlist: The Sad Mother, Small, Warm Holiday, Sunmmer

Vasks compositions incorporate archaic, folklore elements from Latvian music and place them within a dynamic and challenging relationship with the language of contemporary music. The works are frequently given programmatic titles based on natural processes. Vasks' intentions are however not so much a purely poetic praise of nature or showy tone painting, but rather the pursuit of themes such as the complex interaction between man and nature and the beauty of life on the one hand but also the imminent ecological and moral destruction of the world which he expresses in musical language.

Central to Vask's work are human beings and nature. The beauty of nature versus the threat of it, and the human role in it. His human and cultural image is therefore not very optimistic. However, in his work Vasks expresswes wonder and beauty. Especially in his early compositions. The choral work Mate Saule (Mother Sun) from 1975 is one such work. It seems nothing but an evocation of a sun with sparse melodies that break away from the sound as halos and sun breaking through the clouds. Meanwhile, this work is also a piece that is exemplary for the later choral works of Vasks. Although the piece is almost entirely diatonic, drop the instrumental notation for the votes and nice dissonant textures right on. These are things that Vasks in his later work refined and enriched.

For mixed choir (SATB) and piano, based on a text by Mother Teresa. Text in English.

Text in Latvian.

A collection of choral works by Latvian composer Rihards Dubra, in association with Musica Baltica

The second anthology of choral works by Latvian composer Rihards Dubra, in association with Musica Baltica.

A striking setting of the Mass by Latvian composer which has been recorded by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.

English and Latvian text. Composers: Leons Amolins, Pauls Dambis, Rihards Dubra, Maija Einfelde, Eriks Esenvalds, Romualds Jermaks, Alberts Jerums, Selga Mence, Peteris Plakidis, Juris Vaivods, Ruta Vintule.

Songlist: Sun Behind the Clouds, A Cowherd's Life is Hard, A Spring Song, Song of the Flax Breakers, Two Songs of Ophelia, The Little Rain Man, Laudate, Gloria Patri, Kyrie Eleison, O Salutaris Hostia, Ave Maria

English and Latvian text. Composers: Leons Amolins, Pauls Dambis, Rihards Dubra, Maija Einfelde, Eriks Esenvalds, Romualds Jermaks, Alberts Jerums, Selga Mence, Peteris Plakidis, Juris Vaivods, Ruta Vintule.

Songlist: Stars, At Christmas, My Song, Adoramus Te, Laudate, Hodie Christus Est, Verbum Caro, Nunc Dimittis, Five c Songs, Te Lucis Ante Terminum, Mirdzi Ka Zvaigznw

English and Latvian text. Composers: Austrina , Ilze Arne, Peteris Barisons, Rihards Dubra, Jekabs Graubi s, Romualds Jermaks, Andris Kontauts, Emils Melngailis, Selga Mence, Helmers Pavasars, Andris Sejans, Bruno Skulte, Valdis Zilveris

Songlist: Handsome is My Brother's Homestead, Joyfully I Weave My Song, Dievin's House Has Long Tables, In The Evening When the Sun Sets, Mother Of The Sea, Mother Of The Wind, Little Oak Tree, A Dancing Song, Chase Me Though The Forest, Melodies, Fairy Tale, Lullaby, In The Clock Workshop, A Prayer, Laudate Dominum, Benigna Domina