Judith Weir

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...

A Spanish Liederbooklet is a short song cycle (of about eight minutes' duration) for high soprano and piano written for Eileen Hulse in 1988. Eileen gave the first performance, accompanied by Graham J...

Version for Bass. Composed for the 11th International Chamber Music Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music", On White Meadows is a setting in English of five short verses from Wilhelm Müller's D...

Judith Weir's work is often inspired by narrative, folklore and theatre. This creepy-crawly work was inspired by the novel Die Schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf, a tale about an evil, venomous spid...

For Tenor (or Soprano) and Piano. Scotch Minstrelsy is a song cycle comprising settings of five Scottish ballads whose subject matter is almost exclusively violent happenings which take place against...

Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of romantic storytelling with the libretto for “Blond Eckbert”, Judith Weir’s captivating two-act opera. Based on the celebrated tale by Ludwig Tieck, the work...

This work was commissioned by the BBC Singers in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of Stephen Cleobury. The lyrics are from a Sardinian folk tale.

Judith Weir 's Leaf From Leaf Christ Knows for SATB choir with Organ accompaniment. Leaf From Leaf Christ Knows was commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral. Its first performance took...

For SATB Chorus and Trombone. Commissioned to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Unversity of Cambridge, and first performed on St Cecilia's Day 2009 by The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, with...

Klavier, Gesang & Gitarre (rechte Hand Melodie).

Klavier, Gesang & Gitarre (rechte Hand Melodie).

I Give You The End Of A Golden String was commissioned in 2013, by the Royal Philharmonic Society/Britten-Pears Foundation, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Brittenand the bicentena...