Chester Music

For Mezzo Soprano and Orchestra. Libertto by Amin Maalouf. Adriana Songs was commissioned by the Auftakt Festival, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, Musical Director and t...

Full score for Emilie, opera in 9 scenes by Kaija Saariaho. Kaija Saariaho's Emilie was commissioned by Opéra de Lyon, Barbican Centre, London and Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. It was first p...

This work was commissioned in mid 1958 by Hans Oppenheim's Saltire Music Group in Thea Musgrave's native city of Edinburgh.

A dramatic cantata with music by John Tavener and text drawn from The York Cycle Of Mystery plays and the Vulgate. All soloists alternate between being narrator and character. Study Score. Duration c....

A complete musical setting of the Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova's Requiem using the original Russian text, to which some prayers from the Russian Orthodox funeral service have been added by the compo...

An opera written in 2006. Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone was commissioned jointly by the Vienna Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Barbican London and Lincoln Center New York. It was first...

Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story of the boy who builds a snowman who comes to life has become a children's classic. Its popularity has been further enhanced by frequent television broadcasts o...

Work for Soprano and Tenor Soloists and Orchestra. Text: John Milton. Commissioned by the BBC for a Henry Wood Promenade Concert, August 1965.

Work for Soprano, Counter-Tenor, Baritone Soli and Orchestra. Text: Mencius.

Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1978, this work is scored for Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra.

comissioned by the City of Darmstadt for the Darmstadt State Theatre. Orchestration: 1(pic:afl)01(A.bcl)+asx.1(cbn)/1110/2perc/gtr(bjo.ebgtr)/pf(out of tune upr. pf.cel.Hmorg)/str(mltpl or sgl)/on-stg...

For Soprano and Orchestra. Text: Laurie Lee

Commissioned by the BBC for the 1969 Henry Wood Promenade Concert Season. Premiered by Zara Nelsova and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis.

The Ritual Fire Dance, arr. Halffter, 1942

If Davies's Cello Concerto has already evoked comparisons with Elgar's, that is perhaps an indication not only of its wealth of solo melody (there is hardly a page where the cello is not singing, or i...

The Cello Concerto is in four main sections that are played without a break. As with most of my work, the music throughout is generated from the ideas presented in the fi rst few bars, and these ideas...

Michael Nyman's Double Concerto was commissioned by Mazda Cars (UK) Limited. The work was first performed by John Harle (Saxophone), Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducte...

Michael Nyman's Double Concerto was commissioned by Mazda Cars (UK) Limited. The work was first performed by John Harle (Saxophone), Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducte...

Unusually for him, Davies starts his Bassoon Concerto not with slow music but with speed and brilliance: the opening is a Presto, initiated by the strings, and only at the entry of the soloist does th...

The first in a trilogy of works for chamber orchestra, the Sinfonia Concertante uses its forces very much in concerto fashion - and not least its timpanist, who signals the work to start and has a rea...

The solo flute here is kept in high profile by the absence from the orchestra not only of other flutes, but also of violins and oboes; in addition, the trumpets are used sparingly (they do not, for in...