Chester Music

A fantastic Cantata by Nigel Hess, based on The Pied Piper Of Hamelin by Robert Browning, Rats! is a new take on the story with original, memorable music and witty lyrics. The rats who plague Hamelin...

Study score for Adriana Mater - the second opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and librettist Amin Maalouf. Written in 2005, the work is Saariaho’s largest in size and duration, and explores them...

Study score for Adriana Mater - the second opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and librettist Amin Maalouf. Written in 2005, the work is Saariaho’s largest in size and duration, and explores them...

Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, was premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021 in a production directed by Simon Stone. Set at a wedding, the drama centres around the repercussions o...

Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, was premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021 in a production directed by Simon Stone. Set at a wedding, the drama centres around the repercussions o...

A symphony derived from Bizet's opera Carmen in twelve movements: Prelude, The Cavalry, Habanera, Seguidilla, Fugato, Interlude 1, Toreador, Interlude 2, Andante cantabile, Interlude 3, The Wedding, G...

The composer's Op. 1 as revised in 1991.

Commissioned and first performed by Sami Junnonen and Male Choir Valkia.

A three-and-a-half-minute work for upper voices commissioned by Peterborough Voices with funding from Arts Council England. Frances-Hoad sets a text by Gregory Warren Wilson, who says of his poem: The...

A previously unpublished choral work by Lennox Berkeley, written in 1943, sets words by John Donne for SATB choir unaccompanied.

The setting of a text by St John Of The Cross, written for unaccompanied SATB chorus by Geoffrey Burgon in 2004.

The Drei Sonette (Three Sonnets) were among the last works of Germany's leading post-war composer, Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012), settings of words by theologian and poet Christian Lehnert (b. 1926)...

Composed for the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, this Advent carol by Scottish composer Helen Grime is a setting of an anonymous 16th English text for four-part choir with limited divisi. Lasti...

Composed for the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, London, on 19 September 2022, Like as the hart is a setting of verses from Psalm 42 for four-part choir with occa...

This six-minute setting of the Evening Canticles by Frances-Hoad is for mixed chorus a cappella. It was written by the composer with support from the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative...

Written for the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, this piece for SATB choir was commissioned by the Master and Fellows of the college. Frances-Hoad sets a text by the French teacher and writer, C...

Work for SATB Choir a cappella, commissioned by Singcircle and composed in 1984.