Chester Music

This is an updated edition of Francis Poulenc's 1957 work Sonata For Flute And Piano, edited by Carl Schmidt. Featuring the full score and separate Clarinet part, this exclusive edition also includes...

Study Score. Duration c. 9 mins.

Libretto 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.

John Tavener 's Schuon Lieder is a work of 6 songs arranged for Voice and Piano by the composer, with words by Frithjof Schuon. This version was first performed at the Wigmore Hall in London on 28th S...

Per soprano e orchestra. La partitura vocale della scena della pazzia dell'opera A Harlot's Progress di Bell del 2013. Questa scena traccia la discesa mentale ed emotiva di Moll Hackabout che si trova...

Three previously unpublished songs, setting Guillaume Apollinaire's short poems from Le Bestiaire, not included in Poulenc's original set of six from 1918.

Scenes from the Wild is a Song Cycle for Tenor and Chamber Orchestra, based on the book by Dara McAnulty: Diary of a Young Naturalist. The diary, March 2018-19, begins with an echo of Dara's early mem...

Subtitled 'after Clara Schumann Op. 13 No. 2', Helen Grime reinvents the 19th century composer's setting of Heine's text into a striking original style.

Three baritone songs taken from the composer's cantata 'Héloïse and Abelard', and the opera 'The Three Strangers'. Specially arranged for baritone and piano by the composer for Brian Raynor Cook.

The composer writes: 'Simon Littlefield wrote the poem Sun stands still in June 2020. On reading it I could immediately see it working well as a song for treble and piano. I recorded a guide vocal and...

Come Away, Death per tenore e orchestra è un adattamento di un movimento del ciclo di canzoni These Motley Fools di Iain Bell.

La prima opera per palcoscenico di Kaija Saariaho è stata presentata in anteprima all'Accademia Sibelius nel 1981 e non è stata più eseguita fino al 2022, quando il compositore ha ricostruito il lavor...

Libretto for German Version of The Soldier's Tale.

The Phoenix Mass was conceived in 1965, although the Sanctus and Angus Dei were not written down until 1969. As its name implies, it marks a resurgence of creative activity after a fallow period. In t...

The vocal score of Henze's 2010 setting of Franz Werfel's surrealist verse drama Opfergang ('Sacrifice')

This setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis was written by the composer with support from the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. Duration: 5 ½ minut...

Marienhymne is a piece on a smaller scale than Tavener's dramatic cantatas, and is written for unaccompanied choir and semiChorus. Tavener was drawn to writer and philosopher Frithjof Schuon's vision...

For SATB Chorus and Trombone. Commissioned to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Unversity of Cambridge, and first performed on St Cecilia's Day 2009 by The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, with...

Optional Piccolo (or Fife) part for James Whitbourn's Missa Carolae.