Chester Music

Mixed Bag. This highly acclaimed series provides a real opportunity for woodwind players of mixed ability to play together. It will work with as few or as many players as you like! Each arrangement wi...

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 2nd May 2000 at the Barbican Centre, London by Richard Watkins. Peter Maxwell Davies: The horn writing is extr...

Work for Solo Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Text: Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Clarissa Pinkola Estes. The piece was first performed by Jessye Norman and the Orchest...

Commissioned by Music at Malling and first performed on 23 April 2022 in Malling Abbey, Kent, by Chamber Domaine, conducted by Thomas Kemp.

Salonen's Fog, written for friend and architect Frank Gehry, is a fantasy around the Bach E major Prelude from Partita in E (BWV 1006), whose harmonic and melodic structure is almost omnipresent, some...

Salonen's Fog, written for friend and architect Frank Gehry, is a fantasy around the Bach E major Prelude from Partita in E (BWV 1006), whose harmonic and melodic structure is almost omnipresent, some...

The flute concerto Aile du Songe was first composed in 2001, commissioned by the Flanders Festival, the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This 2022 arrangement is...

The Seven Heavens explores the life of C. S. Lewis in the planets of the Middle Ages. Arranged for SATB and chamber ensemble.

The Light Within for ensemble is a companion piece to The Light That Fills the World, the harmonic colours of this new piece are more complex and mercurial than those of its outward-looking predecesso...

Partitura de estudio para la obra orquestal de Weir encargada por Britten Pears Arts para el Festival de Aldeburgh 2024, en el que Weir fue compositor residente. PLANET es un conjunto de tres piezas o...

Dance Preludes, for Clarinet and Piano, is an impressive chamber work by Witold Lutoslawski. The five movements which form this work are based on folk songs from North Poland, providing a variety of c...

Szalowski's Sonatina for clarinet and piano, was composed in 1936, the year he became president of the Association of Young Polish Musicians in Paris.

Edited by Colin Bradbury.   Two works for the clarinet by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) are well known; the concerto Op. 80 of 1902, and the sonata Op. 129 of 1918. By the time he wrote...

Camille Saint-Saens' Sonata For Clarinet And Piano Op. 167, as edited by Paul Harvey. The solo clarinet part is also included on a separate insert.

Mozart's Divertimento No. 3 K. 439b is in 5 short and delightful movements, edited and arranged for Clarinet with Piano Accompaniment by Georgina Dobree. Dobree has taken this splendidly mature work,...

Edited by James Brown. Includes music by Rossini, Danzi, Staie and Thurner.

Throughout 2022 the Royal Academy of Music celebrated its bicentenary on a colossal scale by commissioning 200 composers to write works for solo instruments. Porphyry by Joby Talbot was one of these 2...

This version of Partita was orchestrated by the composer in 1988 for Anne-Sophie Mutter. The first performance was given in January 1990 by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by...

With a libretto written by Judith herself, based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group rathe...

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...

In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C, it became clear that there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. S...

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...