Judith Weir

My Guardian Angel is a carol, which celebrates the increased incidence of public appearances by angels at Christmas time. It is a setting of short text by William Blake. The music of the carol is base...

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...

Libretto 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 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...

This work is a free transcription of the aria Wer Bist Du? Frage Dein Gewissen from J. S. Bach's Cantata No 132 Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn. First performed by Nicholas Hodges at the British...

Commissioned by the Scottish International Piano Competition as the test piece for the 2007 Competition. Using the phrase 'I've turned the page' in conversation implies that you've made a new start an...

The composer originally intended to model this new work on her favourite flute piece, Bach's Second Suite, and started to write an Overture. Sensing great energy from this beautiful medium, though, sh...