Chester Music

For soprano and piano, commissioned by Carolyn Sampson.

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...

Three previously unpublished songs, setting Guillaume Apollinaire's short poems from Le Bestiaire, not included in Poulenc's original set of six from 1918.

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.

Commissioned by the Oxford Lieder Festival, for baritone and piano, this song sets text by Charles Baudelaire in an English translation by Eleanor Brown. Premiered by Ashley Riches, baritone and Micha...

A two and a half minute piece for voices and piano, commissioned and first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery Choir conducted by Neil Ferris..One Earth sets a text by Di Sherlock for...

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...

Immerse yourself in Igor Stravinsky's captivating masterpiece: "The Soldier's Tale" (Die Geschichte vom Soldaten) tells the gripping, timeless story of a humble soldier who enters into a fateful pact...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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')