Chester Music

Telaranas' (the Spanish for cobwebs) is a duo for Violin and Cello written for and dedicated to Jakob Kullberg and Jack Liebeck. Much of the music is taken from other parts of a cycle of string piece...

To see the summer sky for Violin and Viola falls into four movements. The first movement opens with the two instruments sounding almost as one playing very high, glassy harmonics. Gradually, an expres...

Piccola Musica is written for string trio and consists of five short movements, independent of each other, apart from the 'tie-up' between numbers I and V. The texture is in the main contrapuntal, tho...

Premiered by Frederick Ginke, Watson Forbes and James Phillips in the Wigmore Hall in August 1944. Score available: CH00259

An eight minute ensemble composition for Violin, Viola and Cello, premiered in january 2001 by Marcia Crayford at the St. Columbus Church in London. The piece is based on a Greek byzantine hymn and fe...

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including t...

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including t...

Cloud Trio was commissioned by the Bastad Kammermusikfestival (artistic Director Karin Dornbusch), Musik i Syd, the festival Music Around and Arcana Festival für Neue Musik. It was first performed at...

Helen Grime 's Aviary Sketches is a composition for String Trio. This is the full score and parts for this wonderful work which lasts around 13 minutes. Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the suppor...

Reflections was written for Nordic Affect. The first performance was given on 30 September 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Arranged for Violin, Viola and Cello. Duration: 8 minutes. Anna Thorvaldsdottir f...

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Spectra for Violin, Viola and Cello. Duration: 9 minutes

Homunculus is a short (circa 12 minutes) work for string quartet, which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet. He wanted to compose a piece that would be very co...

Commissioned by Kronos Quartet for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. Premiere 12th March 2009 at the MusicNOW Festival and 18th July 2009 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Bryce Dessner is a composer/guitar...

Score and parts of the second string quartet, written in A major, from Joseph Jongen, Op. 50.

This work was written in 1958. It was commissioned by the University of Glasgow under the terms of the McEwen Bequest.

Premiered at the 1978 Bath Festival by the Lindsay Quartet. Parts available: SOS01004