Chester Music

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 is a setting of So sweet love seemed with text by Robert Bridges (1844-1930).

I Sonetti Lussuriosi is a collection of pieces by world-renowned composer Michael Nyman. This work is a setting of 8 pieces of erotic poetry by Italian poet Pietro Aretino. This is the Vocal Score whi...

A beautifully presented, illustrated collection of children's songs from Wales. It is compulsory for all children to learn Welsh up to the age of 16 in Welsh schools, and this book provides a fun wa...

For Solo Voice and Piano. There are various versions of this anonymous ballad that has its own traditional melody. Berkeley provided a folk-like setting in this song for Sophie Wyss (1897- 1983), the...

Nobody Comes was commissioned by NMC for the NMC Songbook (2009). Duration: circa 3½ minutes

Kaija Saariaho's Emilie Suite was a joint commission by Carnegie Hall, New York City, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. It was first per...

Harvest Moon by William Busch for Medium Voice with Piano accompaniment. Words by Sylvia Jones.

Luonnon Kasvot by Kaija Saariaho for high voice and piano.

Tolga Kashif's 2012 piece Ave Maria (As a Mother for her Child), for Voice and Piano.

Raymond Briggs' 'The Snowman' is a charming Christmas story about the adventures of a boy and his snowman who comes to life. A modern children's classic, the tale's popularity has been further enhance...

Eric Whitacre's Goodnight Moon for Soprano and Piano. This is a setting of the text from Margaret Wise Brown's children's bedtime story, which tells of a child saying goodnight to everything around. I...

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Hvolf was composed in 2009 and is arranged for Soprano with Piano accompaniment.

Helen Grime's Bright Travellers for Soprano and Piano accompaniment. Commissioned in 2017 by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Foundation Hoffmann, aSwissgrant-making...

Srebrna Szybka (The Silver Windowpane) by Witold Lutoslawski, for unison voices and piano. Polish language.

Durey's song-cycle (written for violin and piano or thirteen instruments) is made up of 25 individual songs, each to a text by Guillaume Apollinaire and each very short. Most take just a page or two o...

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...

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...