Judith Weir

From an 18, 000 verse Hindu text, the Bhagavata Purana composed about AD900, this extract is about the coming of the yearly monsoon rain. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchsetra on the occasion of the...

For Soprano and Orchestra. Natural History was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was written for the voice of Dawn Upshaw. The first performance was given by these artists, conducted...

Partitura de estudio. Encargo de la Nueva Orquesta de Edimburgo en celebración de Buzzy Murray. Estrenada el 19 de marzo de 2022 por la New Edinburgh Orchestra, dirigida por Tim Paxton. Duración: unos...

Partitura de estudio. Encargo de la Nueva Orquesta de Edimburgo en celebración de Buzzy Murray. Estrenada el 19 de marzo de 2022 por la New Edinburgh Orchestra, dirigida por Tim Paxton. Duración: unos...

Facsimile study score. Full score and orchestral parts available for hire.

A two-minute string quartet by the Master of the Queen's music commissioned by The Royal Society of Musicians and first performed by the Shanghai String Quartet at Wigmore Hall, London, on 1st Februar...

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...

Judith Weir's The Tree of Peace was composed in 2016 for organ. Commissioned in loving memory of Richard Axtell (1952-2015), talented and much-loved organist at the Parish of St. Andrew, West Tarring.

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...

Judith Weir: My Piano Quartet (2000) is part of an extended series of works for piano and strings which I have written over the last twenty years - although I didn't know it was going to be a series w...

Written for the Endellion Quartet in 1990. Duration 13 minutes. Parts available: SOS03190

Short work for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet. Parts available: SOS00832

Short work for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet. Score available: SOS10832

For Baritone Voice and Piano. Commissioned by the BBC for an anthology of new songs celebrating the Schubert Bi-centenary. Text: Ludwig Rellstab.

Full 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.

Work for Soprano, Counter-Tenor, Baritone Soli and Orchestra. Text: Mencius.

Work for Piano and Orchestra commissioned for the Spitafields Festival 1997.

The music for this piece was inspired by a short extract from a traditional melody sung by women cloth-workers in Barra, in the Western Isles of Scotland. The Scottish folk music tradition is one that...

Within much of her work, Judith Weir has tried to portray the sky, stars and planets in her music and the Moon and Star follows the same path. This work based on poetry by Emily Dickinson uses the tex...

Work for Orchestra premiered by the Endymion Ensemble, September 1987.

Work for Two Pianos.

Opera scored for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and 2 Baritone Soli, SSAATTBB Chorus and Orchestra. Text: from Popular Tales of the West Highlands.