Judith Weir

A short work for Violin and Viola commissioned as a birthday present for Lady Susan Hussey and first performed at a Musical Evening in Kennington, London on Sunday 15th September 2019 by Eloisa-Fleur...

Poco después de terminar mi Segundo Cuarteto, me di cuenta de que todas sus características formales me recordaban a momentos de los cuartetos de Beethoven. Una apertura nerviosa y conversacional, seg...

These three pieces form a very short instrumental opera, based on the life of James Reid, a bagpiper in Prince Charlie's Jacobite army, who was captured by the English in 1746, and executed after a ju...

COMPOSER'S NOTES The music of these violin duos has been influenced by the centuries-long flow of traditional music from the British Isles to North America and back again. The compositions are dedicat...

Work for Violin and Piano commissioned with funds from the Greater London Arts association.

Judith Weir's The Wild Reeds for Organ. ' The Wild Reeds is a ten-minute partita, made up of an original theme followed by six variations, which are played continuously. The theme was partly inspired...

Work for Organ premiered by Michael Bonaventure, August 1985.

Work for Organ, premiered by Michael Bonaventure, September 1982.

Written for the Endellion Quartet in 1990. Duration 13 minutes. Score available: SOS03075

First performed by Ulli Heinen on 28th May 1999 at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham. Duration 15 minutes.

On Buying A Horse is a work for Medium Voice and Piano by Judith Weir. This piece received its first performance on 18th February 1992 in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh by the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts...

Encargo de Gill Graham para el 60 cumpleaños de su querido amigo Chris Butler. Cuatro piezas cortas para clavicordio (o clave, o pianoforte). Duración: c. 4½minutos

Vocal Score for the Opera in Two Acts. Scored for SATB Soli, SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Commissioned by English national Opera with funds from the Arts Council. Text: Judith Weir after Ludwig Tieck.

This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cu...

Vocal Score available: CH61807

Work for SSAATTBB Chorus, 2 Pianos and 8 Dancers. Text: The composer after The Sandman by E. T. A Hoffman.

This work was commissioned by William Howard with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain, and was first performed in the Wigmore Hall, 31 May 1983. Duration: c. 10 minutes.

This work was commissioned by the Master and Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge, to mark the 500th anniversary of the founding of the College. The Magnificat was first performed by Andrew Nethsin...

Commissioned in memory of Edmund Bridges for the choir of Eton College, and in Oxford for the choirs of Magdalen College, and Christ Church Cathedral. First performed by an ad hoc choir conducted by A...

Composed for the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, London, on 19 September 2022, Like as the hart is a setting of verses from Psalm 42 for four-part choir with occa...