Chester Music

Graham Lyons. Carefully graded pieces for guitarists and recorder players. Ideal for use in group teaching, the course is progressive and gradually introduces new notes and challenges for the pupil. V...

Everybody's favourite nursery rhymes especially arranged for children to play on recorder, with fun pictures to colour in. Any child who has learnt the notes of the recorder will be able to enjoy thes...

The Wizard has created some simple magical accompaniments for Piano, Guitar and classroom percussion to include your friends in your first ever recital! Written to accompany the Recorder Wizard Recita...

Ten melodies for Treble Recorder by Tilo Medek, completed in 1976.

The Chester String Series has been providing high quality musical works for developing String Players for over 60 years. Viola Book 1 contains eight graded pieces in the 1stposition, including works b...

For Viola and Piano, this is the composer's first opused work. Premiered at the Wigmore Hall in July 1959 by Cecil Aronowitz and Margaret Kitchen. Wood: In 1957 I knew I had newly discovered the music...

Richard Reed Parry's Duet For Heart And Breath Treble Clef version for Viola (or other instrument of suitable range) and Piano (or other polyphonic instrument). The performers wear stethoscopes positi...

Esa-Pekka Salonen's Pentatonic Etude for solo viola written in 2008 and revised in 2014.

Commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam for Cross-Linx 2015. Supported by the AMMODO Foundation.

Composed in 1960 and revised in 1994, this wonderfully lyrical solo Sonata offers a substantial challenge to the performing Cellist. The piece has a three-part structure, with a lively and playful cen...

Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story about the adventures of a boy and the snowman that comes to life is a modern children's classic. The tales popularity has been further enhanced by frequent tel...

Commissioned by the Park Lane Group and premiered in the Purcell Room in 1972.

Pibroch, which literally means 'piping' in Scots Gaelic, has been traditionally played on the bagpipes for several centuries. But there is an earlier tradition of pibroch having been performed on the...

The bass-clef version of two pleasant and pastoral movements by Christopher Le Fleming for the Cello with a full Piano accompaniment. A treble-clef edition is available with eitheer the Oboe, Violin o...

Written for Stephen Isserlis, Tavener's 1989 masterpiece, The Protecting Veil for cello and strings, is now available for solo with rehearsal piano reduction.

Arranged by Anssi Karttunen and Magnus Lindberg.

A series of short pieces dedicated to renowned cellist Anssi Karttunen, presented during a concert in celebration of his fiftieth birthday in Helsinki in 2010. The concert was based around the Mystery...

Esa-Pekka Salonen's YTA III for solo Cello. This work was written for Anssi Karttunen, who gave the first performance at the Musiikin aika Festival, Viitasaari, Finland, on 23rd July 1987. ' I began t...