Chester Music

The solo group consists of a sextet of the woodwind instruments which are normally doubled with more regular members of the orchestra: these six strangers, now brought to the fore, are piccolo and alt...

Premiered by Simon Preston at the 1968 Cheltenham Festival.

For SATB choir, percussion and speaker/narrator.

Annelies was conceived by James Whitbourn as a concert-length choral work, with the libretto based on the diary of Anne Franke, a Jewish girl who lived at the time of the holocaust. This version is ar...

Luminosity is commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for the Westminster Williamson Voices, the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum, the Blair Academy Singers (co...

Lux In Tenebris from Luminosity. For SATB choir, Viola, Tanpura, Tam-Tam, and dance theatre. Luminosity is a multi-media work, commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College...

Soprano Saxophone Part for James Whitbourn's 'Son Of God Mass'.

For Soprano Saxophone, choir (SATB) and reader. Commissioned by the B. B. C. to commemorate the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Requiem canticorum is a five-movement work of 12 - 14 minutes' duration. Its title means 'a Requiem of song' or 'a Requiem of canticles' indicating that it is a commemorative piece which sets texts as...

The Voices Stilled (Agnus Dei) by James Whitbourn was commissioned by John Snelling and the Shipley Arts Festival (director Andrew Bernardi), and first performed on 14 July 2013 in Lancing College Cha...

The Wounds was expertly composed by British composer James Whitbourn, for SATB chorus, Speaker, Violin, Cello, and Organ. This selection include Cello, Organ and Violin parts. James ' international re...

This piece provides a compositional challenge to find a balance between 2 wind instruments and piano, the general structure of the piece is evolved so that different balances between the 3 instruments...

Composed in 1961

This work was commissioned by the Anglo-Austrian Music Society and was written in the last six months of 1966. It is dedicated to Nadia Boulanger for her 80th birthday - 16 September 1967.

The score for the original version of Miranda's Lament. Composed in 1997, the piece is part of 'The Tempest Songbook' and was dedicated as a birthday present for Paavo Heininen. The set of parts for t...

Terrestre' was commissioned by Eleanor Eisenmenger in honour of Kaija Saariaho's 50th birthday. It is based on the second movement of the composer's Flute concert 'Aile du Songe', of which the she say...

Kaija Saariaho's Frises for Violin and Electronics. This work was commissioned by Borusan Culture and Arts, Istanbul. The world premiere took place on 2 November 2012 at Borusan Music House, Istanbul,...

Changing Light, arranged for soprano and flute, was first performed by Valérie Gabail (soprano) and Camilla Hoitenga (flute) on 20 May 2005 as part of the Festival 'Les Musiques' in Marseille, France....

Amers is the title of a book of poems by Saint-John Perse, dedicated to the sea. It is also the title chosen by Kaija Saariaho, born in Finland in 1952, for a work completed in the studios of IRCAM in...

The separate Cello part for the 1992 work by the Finnish spectral composer Kaija Saariaho; an intense and complex piece for solo Cello and electronics. The music is derived from preliminary recordings...

For Flute, Violin, Guitar, Cello and Soprano. Score and parts.

Written for three female voices (or female choir), crotale, violin and cello.

This work was commissioned by Court Circuit Ensemble SCORING > Alto flute (doubling piccolo) > Percussion (1 player): triangle, tamtam, crotales, bass drum > Harp > Mezzo-soprano > Violin > Viola > Ce...