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'Water Night' Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3

Eric Whitacre is an American composer best known for his choral music. He has also written a large number of wind band compositions and some electronic music. In addition, he has composed works for orchestra and an opera, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. 

His style is quite approachable and features trademark chords (sevenths and ninths, sometimes heard against a background of sustained seconds and fourths), unexpected chord progressions, aleatoric elements, finger snapping by choral singers, and a host of other typically recognizable characteristics. 

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, Argerich HQ COMPLETE

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An artist is never so magnificent as when she shares to enrich many with music that expresses nearly everything which the imagination is capable of conceiving, that enables us to awaken that which lies dormant now within our soul, re-ignite the flame of your consciousness, and measure the strength of our conviction....