Spartiti medio di Chester Music

Rapsodie Nègre is the work with which Poulenc made his compositional début in Paris. It utilizes an unusual grouping of instruments and draws on African/Oriental exoticism and pentatonic melodies, cou...

The première of Leo Brouwer's Concierto de Benicassim took place at the Certamen Internacional de Guitarra 'Francisco Tárrega' in Benicassim, Spain on 31st August 2002 to mark the 150th anniversary of...

First performed on 14th September 1997, at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki by John Storgårds, violin, the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, conductor.

The Concerto is dedicated to Dennis Russell Davies and Paul Zukofzky, who present the first performance. The orchestral accompaniment consists of two flutes (one doubling as piccolo), two oboes, E-fla...

Composer's Notes: This piece, written during the winter months of 2000-2001, consists of one movement, Allegro con fuoco, in which an old score is revisited, raided and ravished by its composer. The e...

Tides was commissioned by Kroumata Percussion Ensemble with fundings from NOMUS and Det Norske Komponisfond.

The piece was commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra. It was premiered by the orchestra, conducted by Franz Weltzer-Möst on 4 March 2004 in Severance Hall, Cleveland, USA.

Different Voices received its first performance on 9 April 2007 given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Debbie Wiseman, soprano soloist: HayleyWestenra and narration of the story by Ste...

The Safri Duo asked Wallin to compose a short opening piece for their concerts and after their first inspiring interpretation of his previous work for them he obliged with FRAP which is an anglificati...

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years, Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style, reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melo...

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years, Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style, reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melo...

Lambert's settings of three poems by Chinese writer Li-Po, featuring some unusual melodic and harmonic flavours for the medium voice soloist.

This was written for Barbara Bonney who had told Previn that she might be related to Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney). Previn discovered a collection of memories of Billy the Kid by women who had lov...

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...

This work was commissioned by the Cheshire County Council for the 900th anniversary of Chester Cathedral, for performance at the Chester Summer Music festival 1992. The opening melody on the solo cell...

Motet for Five Voices (SATBB) for Lent and Passiontide. English alternative provided.

Edited by Collins.

Motet for five voices (SSATB) for the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord.

Memento Creatoris, an anthem for SATB choir was comissioned by the BBC Transcription Service for the Aldeburgh Festival in 1967.

Palestrina is one of the towering figures of late Renaissance church music whose polyphonic compositions remain actively performed in the Choral repertoire. He composed more than 250 motets. This one,...

Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin for five voices. Edited by Anthony G. Petti.

This work was commissioned by the Chester Summer Music Festival for Stephen Wilkinson and the BBC Northern Singers. The first performance was given as part of a concert at Chester Town Hall on 23 July...