Chester Music

Full Score of Saariaho L'amour De Loin. Opera In Five Parts. L, armour De Loin was premiered in Salzburg in August 2000 with additional productions being staged at the theatreBern in Switzerland. The...

For Children's voices and Orchestra. Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Proms. First performance in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen on 19th July 2006, in the Royal Albert Hall, London, by the B...

Written for SATB choir and orchestra. Commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and first performed on Saturday 6 May 2006 by the Festival Chorus and Academy of Ancient Music conducted by John...

Elogium Musicum amatissimi amici nunc remoti (A Musical Eulogy in praise of a best beloved now far away) was commissioned by the Leipzig Gewandhaus. The premiere took place on 2 October 2008 in the ma...

Lyric opera in two acts. Libretto by David Pountney. Commissioned jointly by the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK and The Juilliard School, New York, USA. UK premiere: 18th March 2011 - Royal...

Iain Bell's A Harlot's Progress is an Opera in six scenes, featuring a libretto by Peter Ackroyd based upon William Hogarth's 1730 etchings of the same name. This is a full score for Soprano, Mezzo-So...

An Epithalamion, Or Mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentine's Day is a work by Hugh Wood that sets the poem by John Donne. For Chorus and Orchestra, the w...

A revised SATB/orchestra version of Tavener's Requiem For Father Malachy. Full score. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

First performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in April 1978 by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer. Duration c. 15 mins.

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1979 work for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra, commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra, who gave the first performance in May 1992 at the Royal Festival Hall, with Simon...

Elias: I first came across Irina Ratushinskaya's poetry when the collection 'No, I'm Not Afraid' was published in England in early May 1986. The poems, the various circumstances in which they were wri...

Song cycle for soprano and orchestra with poems by Robert Desnos. First performed at the BBC Proms in August 1991 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, with Solveig Kringleborn. Dur...

A balletic pantomime in two tableaux.

A ballet in two acts, written between 1917 and 1919. Words by G. Martinez Sierra after a story by D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Edited by Yvan Nommick.

The fifteenth full Opera from the prolific Hans Werner Henze, and the first to feature a self-penned libretto. After the poems he wrote for his Songs from the Arabian, Henze has produced this unusal t...

Rapsodie Nègre is the work with which Poulenc made his compositional début in Paris. It utilizes an unusual grouping of instruments and draws on African/Oriental exoticism and pentatonic melodies, cou...

Quatre Instants for Soprano and Orchestra is an arrangement of the composer's own Quatre Instants for Soprano and Piano, and was commissioned by the Finnish Chamber Orchestra Association and the Leipz...

A score with orchestration for two Flutes, two Oboes, Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Percussion and Strings. Rodrigo's Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios was written for the soprano Lola Rodriguez Aragon, who gave...

A score with orchestration for two Flutes, two Oboes, Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Percussion and Strings. Rodrigo's Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios was written for the soprano Lola Rodriguez Aragon, who gave...

Kaija Saariaho's Leino Songs were commissioned by the Osaka International Festival, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Casa da Musica, Porto. First performances: 5 April 2008 at Festival Hall in Os...

The Love Duet From Krishna is a work by John Tavener for Soprano, Tenor and Orchestra. Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the work was first performed on 7th July 2013 at Bridgewater H...

Jocelyn Pook's Hearing Voices was commissioned by BBC3 for the BBC Concert Orchestra, who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 3 December 2012, with Melanie Pappenheim, m...

Kaija Saariaho's True Fire for Baritone Solo and Orchestra was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre national de France....

A short piece for soprano solo and orchestra, written in 1937.