Chester Music

This is the 1954 version for equal voices with accompaniment of four horns and with Russian text in both Cyrillic and transliteration.

Composer's Note When I considered the ensemble of eight cellos, I first thought of matt and dark textures. I also wanted to go back to some ideas on symmetry. While I was pondering all that, I saw sno...

Work for Chamber Ensemble commissioned by the London Sinfonietta.

Work for Contralto, Clarinet, Violin and Cello. Text: Christopher Logue. Premiered in the Wigmore Hall in 1961. Parts available: SOS02044

This work was written between 1987 and 1989, it consists of two movements and the composition takes the form of a presentation of contrasting blocks, they start in their shortest, simplest form and th...

Work for High Voice, Alto Flute, Horn, Harp and Viola. Text: TS Eliot. Quoting Wood: 'I had for many years wanted to set Marina, and the opportunity came to start work on it in mid August 1988. About...

First performance on 20th November 2007, at St George's Hall, Liverpool, by Nicholas Cox (Clarinet) and the Chilingirian Quartet, as part of the Rodewald Concert Series.

Text by Saint-John Perse and Jules Superveille.

Work for Wind Instruments, Horn, Harp and String Trio.

Written for two clarinets and soprano. It was first performed on the BBC's Pebble Mill on 20 November 1992 by Mary Wiegold and members of the composers' ensemble as part of a concert in aid of Childre...

Four songs arranged for high voice and violin. English text.

Vocal Score available: CH61807

Rorate Coeli arranged for SSATB.

SATB work splitting into SSAATTBB later in the score.

SATB work splitting into SSAATTBB later in the score.

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