Chester Music

Scenes from the Wild is a Song Cycle for Tenor and Chamber Orchestra, based on the book by Dara McAnulty: Diary of a Young Naturalist. The diary, March 2018-19, begins with an echo of Dara's early mem...

Subtitled 'after Clara Schumann Op. 13 No. 2', Helen Grime reinvents the 19th century composer's setting of Heine's text into a striking original style.

Three baritone songs taken from the composer's cantata 'Héloïse and Abelard', and the opera 'The Three Strangers'. Specially arranged for baritone and piano by the composer for Brian Raynor Cook.

The composer writes: 'Simon Littlefield wrote the poem Sun stands still in June 2020. On reading it I could immediately see it working well as a song for treble and piano. I recorded a guide vocal and...

Come Away, Death para tenor y orquesta es una adaptación de un movimiento del ciclo de canciones de Iain Bell These Motley Fools.

Kaija Saariaho’s first work for stage was premiered at the Sibelius Academy in 1981 and not performed again until 2022 when the composer reconstructed the work, including the original tape part which...

Libretto for German Version of The Soldier's Tale.

Composer's Notes: When I was asked to write a piece to celebrate the restoration of Michelangelo's Mosè, I returned to the paper written by Sigmund Freud on the sculpture which I had discovered by cha...

The Phoenix Mass was conceived in 1965, although the Sanctus and Angus Dei were not written down until 1969. As its name implies, it marks a resurgence of creative activity after a fallow period. In t...

Easy choral arrangements of 20 gospels and spirituals, with piano accompaniment and chord symbols by Peter Skellern. Suitable for solo voice or choir. Includes Amazing Grace, Go Down Moses, Deep River...

Un Petit Jazz' arranged for Flute and Guitar or Descant/Treble Recorder and Guitar.

Autumn by Witold Lutoslawski is a children's song cycle for unison Voices and Piano. Arranged and translated by Richard Steinitz.

The fifth variation in Britten's third opus, the Corpus Christi Carol, finds words in a hymn first found in the early 16th century, music was later added by Peter Warlock, and then in 1933, by Benjami...

Dwellers By The Sea is the second movement of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's cycle 'Five Choruses For Male Voice'. The cycle of five choruses is set to Lithuanian folk texts translated by Frantisek L...

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.

The vocal score of Henze's 2010 setting of Franz Werfel's surrealist verse drama Opfergang ('Sacrifice')

Here are 27 easy-intermediate arrangements of familiar melodies in classical, folk and jazz styles. Each tune is presented as a trio, but these ingenious arrangements work equally well as solos or due...

For SSA chorus and Piano. Commissioned by the Farnham Youth Choir and the Farnham Festival for the 50th anniversary of the Farnham Festival in 2011. First performed on the 26th March 2011 at Farnham...

John Tavener's popular setting of 'The Lord's Prayer' is arranged here for Upper Voices and Piano or Organ by Barry Rose. 'The Lord's Prayer' was originally commissioned by the Guildford Philharmonic...

This setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis was written by the composer with support from the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. Duration: 5 ½ minut...