Territory code: A05

Teachers return to Ešenvalds's Only in Sleep and Salutation most frequently; both work well for advanced choirs seeking repertoire with harmonic depth and emotional nuance. O salutaris hostia and Amazing Grace offer sacred options that work equally well in liturgical and concert settings. The recently published Legend of the Walled-in Woman and The First Tears, An Inuit Legend show Ešenvalds continuing to expand his range into narrative and cultural storytelling.

Rihards Dubra's Hail, Queen of Heaven, published in April 2026, offers another strong sacred option in SSAATTBB voicing. Ešenvalds released both Legend of the Walled-in Woman and a new selected songs collection for mixed choir last year. Jekabs Jancevskis contributed No Bird Sings as Sweetly for upper voices, published in October 2025.

Eriks Ešenvalds dominates this collection with works spanning sacred, secular, and folk traditions. His pieces consistently engage singers with sophisticated harmony, careful text setting, and voicings that range from SSATBB to fully expanded octets, making him essential repertoire for choirs at the intermediate level and above.

Rihards Dubra brings a complementary sensibility to sacred choral music, evident in works like Oculus non vidit and the newly released Hail, Queen of Heaven. His settings tend toward liturgical clarity without sacrificing harmonic interest.

Jekabs Jancevskis and Maija Einfelde round out the core group of Latvian composers here, each bringing distinct approaches to folk material and poetic texts. Jancevskis's Trees and Einfelde's Tumsa gul vel sila (Darkness Still Lies in the Forest) are favorites among teachers seeking pieces with cultural depth and singable, rewarding vocal lines.