Chester Music

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...

Annelies is the first adaptation of the diary of Annelies 'Anne' Frank into a large-scale Choral work. It brings to life the diary written by Frank between 1942 and 1944 when she and her family lived...

James Whitbourn 's Veni Et Illumina is a work for SATB Choir, SA Choir, Organ, Brass and Percussion. Commissioned by the Cathedral Choral Society and J. Reilly Lewis, Music Director, the work was firs...

James Whitbourn 's Ada is a work for SATB Choir, Violin and Harp, commissioned by Lord Lytton to mark the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who is widely regarded as the first compu...

Primavera is a short virtuosic work for Flute and Coloratura Soprano. It was written in 1971, and premiered by Dorothy Dorow at her concert at the Zagreb Festival of Contemporary Music. It takes its l...

Chamber Concerto No 1 was written in the winter of 1961-62. It is scored for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola and cello. It is dedicated to Robin and Margaret Orr and wa...

Kaija Saariaho is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers, having won a number of international compositions, and has become best known for her works which exploit electronics. The inspi...

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

The set of parts 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 score for t...

Score and parts for Saariaho's Cendres, arranged for Alto Flute, Cello and Piano. Quoting Saariaho: While writing Cendres, I was mainly concentrating on the interpretation of particular musical ideas...

This score edition of Saariaho's , New Gates is arranged for flute, viola (cello), and harp. It was commissioned by the Sabbath Trio and composed in 1996. Duration: 12 minutes.

Six Japanese Gardens is another wonderful example of contemporary programmatic composition by Kaija Saariaho for percussion and electronics. It was composed in the summer of 1993, when Saariaho took i...

Saariaho 'Mirrors' arranged for flute and cello.

Score edition of Die Aussicht. Arranged for Soprano, Flute, Cello and Piano.

Caliban's Dream was written as a 50th birthday tribute to Brian Ferneyhough in 1993. Arranged for baritone voice, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp and double bass. This edition includes the parts only...

Caliban's Dream was written as a 50th birthday tribute to Brian Ferneyhough in 1993. Arranged for baritone voice, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp and double bass. Score edition only. Separate parts a...

Hypnotic Ciel Étoilé it means 'starry sky' in French uses the bass as a dark night of sound dotted with pointillist percussive sounds from the cymbals and crotales. The work is written in thirty-six b...

This is the first section of the five-part Tempest Songbook. Ariel's Lament is a luminous and beguiling rendering of the air sprite Ariel's greeting to his master Prospero, with deft instrumentation i...

This version is arranged for bass voice, alto flute, harpsichord and cello. Score edition only. Separate parts are also available on sale.

Work for Soprano and Violin. The piece has been written for Edna Michell's Compassion project. In the composition I follow the idea of a dialogue, suggested by the text I have chosen. The intimate nat...

This setting of a text from Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest is written for Baritone soloist with a small chamber ensemble. Characterised by Saariaho's unusual and progressive instrumental writing, th...

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...