Chester Music

John Tavener's The Lamb, is a setting for unaccompanied choir of words by William Blake, and was first performed by the choir of King's College, Cambridge on 24th December 1982, as part of A Festival...

John Tavener's Mother Of God Here I Stand, taken from Veil of the Temple and arranged for String Orchestra. ommissioned by the Temple Music Trustfor Premiere in The Temple Church, London. This versi...

Prayer for Jerusalem was written for the Israel Camerata. First performance on 22nd October 2006, at the Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem, by the Israel Camerata and Chorus Musicus Köln, conducted by Chris...

The string orchestra and organ version of this piece was composed for the East London Chorus and their conductor, Murray Stewart and first performed by them with the London Pro Arte Orchestra on 7th J...

For solo Cello, Timpani, and Strings. Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould, founding patron and commissioner, and Meet the Composer, project manager. It was fir...

Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to 'Dido and Aeneas' is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Qu...

First performance on 11th August 2012 at the Cadogan Hall, London, by Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais) and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Clark Rundell, as part of the B...

Britten's Two Portraits for strings - the composer himself called them 'Sketches' - were composed in August and September 1930, during the summer holidays preceding the sixteen-year-old composer's fir...

Bryce Dessner's Réponse Lutos awski was c o-commissioned by the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland and the Mexico National Orchestra and first performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orc...

Bryce Dessner's Lachrimae was commissioned by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Scottish Ensemble, and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Composer's Note: Lachrimae is a direct reference to John Dowland's...

This work for two sopranos and string orchestra was commissioned by the Academy of London, and consists of musical settings of Sappho's classic poetry. Full score. This is a special item which is made...

Arranged and edited by Eve Barsham and Philip Jones. Includes music by Byrd, Farnaby, Hooper and Bull.

Elgar Howarth's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra has been arranged for Trumpet with Piano accompaniment by Martin Harvey. The new Piano reduction cleverly compensates for the extended passages of un...

A short piece for solo trumpet written for Alan Thomas, commissioned to be performed outdoors during the world's recovery from COVID-19.

This five minute piece for trumpet and piano was commissioned by the trumpeter Brant Tilds and premiered by Brant and Cheryl Frances-Hoad at the Bear Club, Luton, 20th June 2017.

Written for the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, for Christmas 2021, with special thanks to Sir Andrew Wiles. This work was written by the composer with support from the 2021 Visiting Res...

Esta obra para trompeta solista se extrajo del concierto para trompeta de Rolf Wallin, Fisher King, tras una estrecha colaboración con Håkan Hardenberger, para quien se escribió originalmente el conci...

Suite Populaire Espagnole by Manuel de Falla, for violin and piano, transcribed for the violin by Paul Kochanski.

Arranged for Violin and Piano by Watson Forbes.

Arranged for Violin and Piano by Peggy Radmall.

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate its 40th birthday, and was written for Isaac Stern. The first performance took place in June 1986 at St. Magnus' Cathedral,...

Gorecki Sonata for two violins, composed 1961. Duration 17 minutes. Suitable for advanced players. Score format.