Chester Music

This concerto is one continuous movement that is clearly divided into 3 main sections. The first movement is moderately fast and rhapsodic in charachter followed by a second section with an accompanie...

A short study for solo trumpet based on musical material from sketches for the composer’s Trumpet Concerto ‘night-sky-blue’. Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, London, in celebration of its b...

A fanfare for three trumpets written for and performed at the ceremony to formally admit Professor Irene Tracey, CBE as the 273rd Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

Riflesso della sua imperscrutabile attenzione ai dettagli e della sua raffinata sensibilità musicale, HUSH è l’ultimo concerto di Saariaho, scritto per il trombettista Verneri Pohjola nel 2023 e che r...

One of the few modern concertos to have already gained its place in the repertoire. Attention grabbing and thought provoking.

Odysseus weeps, a five-minute work for violin and piano, was written very instinctively in reaction to Book 8 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus is brought to tears by the tales of the blind bard Demodocu...

Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze's penultimate opera, and this item...

Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. First performance in September 1983, conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Duration c. 28 mins. Full score and orchestral parts available on hire from the publi...

The original version of this work, scored for chamber orchestra, was written in 1950 in response to a commission from Warsaw Radio. In the following year the composer revised and slightly extended the...

Symphony No. 4 was commissioned by the Sydney Youth Orchestra Association with assistance form the Music Board of the Australia Council. My fourth symphony follows a line of progression through the pr...

La compositrice Rachel Portman, vincitrice del premio Oscar, ha scritto un nuovo canto, The Darkling Thrush, commissionato per il King's College A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Il servizio ha a...

Gould's version of this traditional Christmas tune is arranged for a solo soprano with SATB chorus.