Chester Music

A Wedding Bouquet was the idea of Lord Berners, who wanted Frederick Ashton to make a ballet pantomime out of one of Gertrude Stein's plays and who both wrote the music and designed the 'decor' and co...

When composer Francis Poulenc visited some cousins in 1940, he sketched out this musical background for Jean de Brunhoff's classic story about Babar the Elephant. Poulenc returned to the score in 1945...

Henze's Fünf Botschafen Für Die Königin Von Saba was commissioned by Radio France. It received its première on 3rd February 2005 at the Thé tre Des Champs-Élysées, Paris by the Orchestre National de F...

Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze's penultimate opera, and this item...

The music for this piece was inspired by a short extract from a traditional melody sung by women cloth-workers in Barra, in the Western Isles of Scotland. The Scottish folk music tradition is one that...

Within much of her work, Judith Weir has tried to portray the sky, stars and planets in her music and the Moon and Star follows the same path. This work based on poetry by Emily Dickinson uses the tex...

The variants of this piece chart the experience of the composer's musical journey from childhood as well as citing influences from other composers, including Brahms, the piece also draws connections b...

Arranged by Gian Francesco Malipiero

The composer writes 'MGV (Musique à Grand Vitesse - High-Speed Music) was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North-European line and was first performed by the Micha...

Solo Part available: SOS00627

Orchestral work commissioned by the BBC for the Promenade Concerts 1990.

Work for Orchestra premiered by the Endymion Ensemble, September 1987.

Orchestral work premiered by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Commissioned by the BBC for the 1984 Promenade Concerts.

Orchestral work written in 1955 and revised in 1986.

Orchestral Work commissioned by the BBC for the European Music Year.