Partituras medio de Chester Music

Hymn of Dawn was commissioned jointly by the Ulster Orchestra and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. First performance on 7th November 2004 during the Belfast Festival at Queen's, at the Waterfront Hall,...

Conductor, composer and pianist, André Previn continues to redefine the possibilities in his extraordinary career, already one of the most distinguished musicians of our time. This work with original...

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...

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...

The première of Leo Brouwer's Concierto de Benicassim took place at the Certamen Internacional de Guitarra 'Francisco Tárrega' in Benicassim, Spain on 31st August 2002 to mark the 150th anniversary of...

This piece was written for guitar solo and orchestra in 1999. It is also known as Concierto No. 8-Concierto Cantata de Perugia.

First performed on 14th September 1997, at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki by John Storgårds, violin, the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, conductor.

The Concerto is dedicated to Dennis Russell Davies and Paul Zukofzky, who present the first performance. The orchestral accompaniment consists of two flutes (one doubling as piccolo), two oboes, E-fla...

Composer's Notes: This piece, written during the winter months of 2000-2001, consists of one movement, Allegro con fuoco, in which an old score is revisited, raided and ravished by its composer. The e...

Tides was commissioned by Kroumata Percussion Ensemble with fundings from NOMUS and Det Norske Komponisfond.

The piece was commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra. It was premiered by the orchestra, conducted by Franz Weltzer-Möst on 4 March 2004 in Severance Hall, Cleveland, USA.

The Safri Duo asked Wallin to compose a short opening piece for their concerts and after their first inspiring interpretation of his previous work for them he obliged with FRAP which is an anglificati...

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years, Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style, reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melo...

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years, Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style, reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melo...

Lambert's settings of three poems by Chinese writer Li-Po, featuring some unusual melodic and harmonic flavours for the medium voice soloist.

This was written for Barbara Bonney who had told Previn that she might be related to Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney). Previn discovered a collection of memories of Billy the Kid by women who had lov...

An opera written in 2006. Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone was commissioned jointly by the Vienna Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Barbican London and Lincoln Center New York. It was first...

Kaija Saariaho's Emilie Suite was a joint commission by Carnegie Hall, New York City, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. It was first per...

This work was commissioned by the Cheshire County Council for the 900th anniversary of Chester Cathedral, for performance at the Chester Summer Music festival 1992. The opening melody on the solo cell...

Palestrina is one of the towering figures of late Renaissance church music whose polyphonic compositions remain actively performed in the Choral repertoire. He composed more than 250 motets. This one,...

Motet for Five Voices (SATBB) for Lent and Passiontide. English alternative provided.

Edited by Collins.

Motet for five voices (SSATB) for the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord.