Chester Music

Composed in 1985

The mood of As One Who Has Slept, taken from the great liturgy of St. Basil on Easter Saturday morning, is full of awe, silence and expectation. The atmosphere is deeply solemn as we stand before the...

In this piece for unaccompanied SATB choir, fervent, dance-like music appears side by side with fear and awe, producing a dramatic contrast. The work was commissioned jointly by the Dean and Chapter o...

Henryk Miko aj Górecki (1933-2010) was a Polish composer, who at one point was the most popular living classical composer anywhere in the world. His 1972 work, Euntes Ibant Et Flebant (Op. 32) is one...

Commissioned by the Guildford Philharmonic for the Tallis Scholars. First performance by the Tallis Scholars on 10th March 2000, at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford. Arranged for unaccompanied choir SAT...

A solemn prayer setting by Peter Maxwell Davies of a text from Liber Usualis, for unaccompanied SSATB chorus. The setting was first performed in May 2005 at the St. Magnus Cathedral, Orkney, conducted...

Work for unaccompanied SATB from Tavener's The Veil Of The Temple. The Veil of the Temple was commissioned by the Temple Music Trust. The world premiere took place on 27th June 2003 at the Temple Chu...

Features five songs, also known as St John Of The Cross (Canciones Entre El Alma Y El Esposo). > Where can your hiding be > But have been found again > Of flowers and emeralds sheen > Now, as she lon...

Androcosme is the tenth movement of the wider work Miroir Des Poèmes, a work which sets 22 poems by the French poet and philosopher Jean Biès. This piece is arranged for unaccompanied doubleSATBChoir,...

The antiphon 'O Sapientia' (with a text from the Old Testament Book of Wisdom) bears testimony to Pawel Lukaszewski's genuine artistry and to his fascinating, very individual musical imagination as an...

For unaccompanied SATB choir. This work was written for the Choir of Eton College. Text by King Henry VI, who founded Eton College in 1440.

Ecce Puer is a composition by John Tavener for Unaccompanied SATBB Choir. A setting of one of James Joyce's poems, a full performance lasts around 2 and a half 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...

For AATBarBarB unaccompanied, arranged by Philip Lawson. This arrangement of Leon was commissioned by The King's Singers and Seán Curran Company as part of a collaborative project. It was made possi...

John Tavener's Coplas, composed in 1970, for unaccompanied SATB Choir. ' Coplas is a short anthem for voices and tape. It belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which I have been thinking a...

Pawe?‚ ?ukaszewski 's Daylight Declines for SATB choir unaccompanied. Daylight Declines was commissioned by the Canatrix Choir, the Netherlands, and features a translation of an original text by Andrz...

A work for mixed voices from 2009 as recorded by US ensemble Skylark.

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...

Vagn Holmboe's Domine Non Superbit Op. 61c is part of his fourth collection of Liber Canticorum. The text is taken from the Old Testament, and the music is scored for unaccompanied SATBChoir. Dedicat...

Some of the most exciting and original contemporary composers of sacred music are gathered together in this superb collection. Specially geared towards the choirmaster who is looking for something spe...

This snappy, swinging arrangement of Christmas carol Follow that Star includes finger snapping and a performance note that says, 'slightly stompy'. Follow That Star is a perfect choice for secondary s...

A previously unpublished choral work by Lennox Berkeley, written in 1943, sets words by John Donne for SATB choir unaccompanied.

The setting of a text by St John Of The Cross, written for unaccompanied SATB chorus by Geoffrey Burgon in 2004.

The Drei Sonette (Three Sonnets) were among the last works of Germany's leading post-war composer, Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012), settings of words by theologian and poet Christian Lehnert (b. 1926)...

Composed for the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, this Advent carol by Scottish composer Helen Grime is a setting of an anonymous 16th English text for four-part choir with limited divisi. Lasti...