Chester Music

Composed in 2003, The Kestrel Road was jointly commissioned by forty-seven choirs, all of which are members of Music Making - a national society that links several thousand amateur choirs and orchestr...

Written for SATB chorus and brass ensemble, with a piano reduction. Text by Dylan Thomas.

The English versatile composer, arranger and performer, Harvey Brough, was trained at Coventry Cathedral Choir, the Royal Academy of Music and then at Clare College Cambridge. After leaving college he...

Earthlight was commissioned by Chester Music Festival 2008 and given its premiere at Chester Cathedral on July 25th 2008 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Chester Festival Chorus...

Vocal Score for John Tavener's Three Hymns Of George Herbert for SATB chorus, percussion and strings. Commissioned by the Legatum Institute as part of its 'British and American Notions of Liberty' pro...

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...

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...

James Whitbourn 's Ada is a work for SATB Choir with Piano Accompaniment, commissioned by Lord Lytton to mark the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who is widely regarded as the fir...

Vocal score for this work which was commissioned by the BBC for performance during the 100th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. The first performance of this version was given n September 1995 a...

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Opera in One Act, Three Scenes. For Solo Voices (2 Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Bass), SATB Chorus and Chamber Orchestra. Libretto: Eric Crozier, from the Old Testament.

This work was commissioned by the 1976 Three Choirs Festival and first performed in Hereford Cathedral on 26 August 1976.

The work was designed as a companion piece to Bach's incomparable setting, and uses the same vocal and instrumental resources. It is also constructed in such a way that the Latin Magnificat can be per...

This work for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the National Confederation of Music Societies to celebrate its Jubilee in 1985, with funds made available b...

Work for Solo Soprano with tape loop, Cantor, Narrator, Plainsong Chorus and SATB Chorus. Premiered by Jean Kinibbs and the Syrinx Ensemble, November 1983.

A setting of the text of Thomas Traherne. The work was commissioned for the 1989 Southern Cathedrals Festival by the Dean and Chapter of Chichester.

Vocal score for this ikon in music and dance. The solo parts are for soprano, contralto, bass-baritone and boys' chorus (minimum of 9). Duration c. 90mins. This is a special item which is made to orde...

This work was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The first performance was given on 3rd December 1998 at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, by Lisa Tyrrell (Sopran...

Commissioned for Tenebrae and their director, Nigel Short. John Tavener writes: Mother and Child celebrates the miracle of childbirth. It also celebrates Mary in her universal aspect as mother of all...

Vocal Score for the Opera in Two Acts. Scored for SATB Soli, SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Commissioned by English national Opera with funds from the Arts Council. Text: Judith Weir after Ludwig Tieck.

First performed on 17 October 2000 at the Pieve dell'Assunta, Cavalese, Trentino, Italy by the Mayfield Singers, this is an Italian translation of the text A Hoy Calendar from the poem sequence Fisher...