Chester Music

John Tavener 's Pluies is a work for Solo Mezzo-Soprano, SATB Chorus and String Quartet. The piece was first performed on 31st January 2015 and lasts around 5 minutes. This is the set of String Quarte...

Chant For Columbanus was composed by Irish pianist and conductor Barry Douglas. It is arranged for Quintet: Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano, and this item features the Score and Parts. Having st...

Richard Reed Parry's Heart And Breath Sextet for Piano Six-hands, Violin, Viola and Violoncello. Heart And Breath Sextet was commissioned by the 2011 MusicNOW Festival for yMusic. ' This piece is base...

Commissioned by Freunde und Förderer der Musikalischen Akademie des Bayerischen Staatsorchesters. First performance 20 July 2015 at Haus der Kunst as part of the Munich Opera Festival 2015 with T...

The original version of Bryce Dessner's To The Sea was premiered on 2nd November 2011 during the 'Monstrance' installation, in collaboration with Matthew Ritchie, at L & M Arts Los Angeles. This versi...

This is a gorgeous piece for piano and percussion in 3 movements. The percussion part calls for orchestra bells, vibraphone, maracas, woodblock, ratchet, guiro, and whip. Includes biographical note on...

With "Portbou", Chester Music presents an extraordinary and atmospheric solo work for classical guitar composed by Bryce Dessner, the celebrated guitarist of the indie rock band "The National" and ren...

Performance score for Tavener's 1992 work for soprano solo and cello, with text by Mother Thekla.

Tavener's 1960 work for tenor solo, SATB chorus, brass ensemble and organ. Large (A3) score. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further informat...

Work for Soprano and String Quartet commissioned by the Nash Ensemble.

Three songs and scenes linked by instrumental transitions make up this exciting story about a robbery with a car chase! Scope for a large group of children to be involved. The copiable parts book cont...

The story concerns a space-struck child who sets out on a journey through time and space. Topical links with science, environment, language, movement and dance. The flexible orchestra of classroom ins...

Peter Maxwell Davies. Sent on a shopping errand by Mum and Dad, Pat encounters both wickedness and kindness. The events can inspire ideas for topic work including animals, families, shopping, witches...

Peter Maxwell Davies. Six lively songs for group and solo singing with photocopiable parts for percussion and recorders. Colourful tunes and lyrics explore different moods and musical ideas and stimul...

Butterflies' scored for Voice and Harp.

Composed in homage to William Glock, this single movement has something of the character of a slow fugue, on a theme deeply imbued with minor thirds. The woodwinds and strings are considered as pairs,...

So we'll go no more a-roving (Byron) A Widow bird sate mourning (Shelley) The knot there's no un-tying (Thomas Campbell)

A Mediterranean, erotic postlude to a time when Davies had been much occupied with setting the Orkney poetry of George Mackay Brown. The voice, though, is the same. The mezzo part is wide-ranging and...

This work was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and was first performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in June 1972. James Bowman and Kevin Smith were the soloists with members of the Londo...

John Tavener's 1997 work for tenor solo, 3 flutes (doubling alto flutes) and percussion. Large (A3) score. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for fu...