Chester Music

The volumes of this expanding series are devoted to a wide range of sacred renaissance motets with Latin texts, and contain a mixture of well known and unfamiliar pieces, some of which are published f...

Edited by Anthony Petti. A thematic anthology of secular European Madrigals and part-songs from the 16th and early 17th centuries. The settings are mainly for mixed 4-part choir, but there are also wo...

The Chester Books Of Madrigals offer an exciting collection of secular European madrigals, partsongs and rounds from the 16th and ear;y 17th centuries, newly edited from early sources by Anthony G. Pa...

Joplin did for the rag what Chopin did for the mazurka' it almost seems unnecessary to introduce the 'King of Ragtime Writers', Scott Joplin. During his brief career the African-American composer andp...

Full score and parts for these variations composed by Tilo Medek between 1972 and 1973, for Flute, Violin and Cello. Based on Franz Schubert's Rosamunde.

A mixed voice setting of the satirical poem by Sagittarius set in London during a blackout in World War II.

Chester Recorder Series No.3

Premiered by Simon Preston at the 1968 Cheltenham Festival.

Commissioned by the Organ Club for their Golden Jubilee Concert. Premiered in the Royal Festival Hall by Nicholas Kynaston.

Arranged and premiered by Jennifer Bate.

Work dating from 1941.

Contemporary British composer and conductor James Whitbourn, an award-winning creator of Choral music, film and television scores and works for the concert hall, scored this simple, profound poem for...

For SATB choir, percussion and speaker/narrator.

Annelies was conceived by James Whitbourn as a concert-length choral work, with the libretto based on the diary of Anne Franke, a Jewish girl who lived at the time of the holocaust. This version is ar...

Annelies was conceived by James Whitbourn as a concert-length choral work, with the libretto based on the diary of Anne Franke, a Jewish girl who lived at the time of the holocaust. This version is ar...

Luminosity is commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for the Westminster Williamson Voices, the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum, the Blair Academy Singers (co...

Luminosity is commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for the Westminster Williamson Voices, the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum, the Blair Academy Singers (co...

Lux In Tenebris from Luminosity. For SATB choir, Viola, Tanpura, Tam-Tam, and dance theatre. Luminosity is a multi-media work, commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College...

Annelies is the first adaptation of the diary of Annelies 'Anne' Frank into a large-scale Choral work. It brings to life the diary written by Frank between 1942 and 1944 when she and her family lived...

James Whitbourn 's Veni Et Illumina is a work for SATB Choir, SA Choir, Organ, Brass and Percussion. Commissioned by the Cathedral Choral Society and J. Reilly Lewis, Music Director, the work was firs...

James Whitbourn 's Ada is a work for SATB Choir, Violin and Harp, commissioned by Lord Lytton to mark the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who is widely regarded as the first compu...

Primavera is a short virtuosic work for Flute and Coloratura Soprano. It was written in 1971, and premiered by Dorothy Dorow at her concert at the Zagreb Festival of Contemporary Music. It takes its l...