Chester Music

Nocturne is an unusual cyle of four songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, punctuated with five characterful instrumental interludes. The songs are settings of texts by W. H. Auden, Stephen Sp...

For TTBB Choir and Orchestra

Choral, SATB, Recorder, Voice, Organ, Flute, Percussion, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Oboe, Bass Voice, String Instruments, Harpsichord, Alto Flute This massive work for orchestra and four choirs w...

Study score of The Three Kings, A Christmas Cantata for SATB soli, chorus and orchestra. Texts by George Mackay Brown and mediaeval, anonymous. This work was commissioned by the London Symphony Chorus...

Five songs for solo soprano, eight female voices and orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Salzburg Festival 1996. Duration 24 minutes. Conductor's Score, vocal part, and orchestral p...

This work was commissioned by the University of British Columbia through the gift of David Lemon. It was first performed on 11th May 1997 at the Chan Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,...

This work was commissioned by Alistair Grant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the second Jacobite rising (1745-6). It was first performed on 15th October 1997 at the City Halls, Glasgow, conduc...

Ikon of Eros was commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra on the occasion of the Orchestra's Centennial. First performance on 13th November 2002 at the St Paul Cathedral, Minnesota, by Jorja Fleezanis...

A haunting setting of four elegies from the writing of George Mackay Brown, composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Completed in 1998, this powerful and unsettling work is based upon four short verses that...

This is the Study Score for Mary Of Egypt by John Tavener, for Solo Voices, SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Please note that this is the Chamber Version, with lyrics in English. A full performance of this...

Sollemnitas in conceptione immaculata beatae Mariae virginis. Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blesswed Virgin Mary.

Full Score for Henze's 2010 setting of Franz Werfel's surrealist verse drama 'Sacrifice' for voices orchestra and concertante piano.

Full 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.

This work was commissioned in mid 1958 by Hans Oppenheim's Saltire Music Group in Thea Musgrave's native city of Edinburgh.

A dramatic cantata with music by John Tavener and text drawn from The York Cycle Of Mystery plays and the Vulgate. All soloists alternate between being narrator and character. Study Score. Duration c....

A complete musical setting of the Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova's Requiem using the original Russian text, to which some prayers from the Russian Orthodox funeral service have been added by the compo...

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...

Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story of the boy who builds a snowman who comes to life has become a children's classic. Its popularity has been further enhanced by frequent television broadcasts o...

Work for Soprano and Tenor Soloists and Orchestra. Text: John Milton. Commissioned by the BBC for a Henry Wood Promenade Concert, August 1965.