Chester Music

Vocalise was written for The Purcell Composition Prize 1994 and first performed by Sheherazade - Verona Chard (soprano), Denise Dance (flute) and Fiona Clifton-Welker (harp) at the Purcell Room, Londo...

Diaries of Hope is a five-movement work for voices, strings and piano, inspired by the diaries and poems of Polish children who were victims of the Holocaust.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s concerto for saxophone, composed for alto saxophone, percussion and strings, inspired by various cutting edge mathematical principles which Frances-Hoad’s friend Professor Yang-H...

Commissioned by Music at Malling and first performed on 23 April 2022 in Malling Abbey, Kent, by Chamber Domaine, conducted by Thomas Kemp.

Salonen's Fog, written for friend and architect Frank Gehry, is a fantasy around the Bach E major Prelude from Partita in E (BWV 1006), whose harmonic and melodic structure is almost omnipresent, some...

Salonen's Fog, written for friend and architect Frank Gehry, is a fantasy around the Bach E major Prelude from Partita in E (BWV 1006), whose harmonic and melodic structure is almost omnipresent, some...

The flute concerto Aile du Songe was first composed in 2001, commissioned by the Flanders Festival, the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This 2022 arrangement is...

The Seven Heavens explores the life of C. S. Lewis in the planets of the Middle Ages. Arranged for SATB and chamber ensemble.

The Light Within for ensemble is a companion piece to The Light That Fills the World, the harmonic colours of this new piece are more complex and mercurial than those of its outward-looking predecesso...

Study score for Weir’s orchestral work commissioned by Britten Pears Arts for the Aldeburgh Festival 2024 where Weir was Composer in Residence. PLANET is a set of three short orchestral pieces inspire...

Throughout 2022 the Royal Academy of Music celebrated its bicentenary on a colossal scale by commissioning 200 composers to write works for solo instruments. Porphyry by Joby Talbot was one of these 2...

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate its 40th birthday. The first performance took place in June 1986 at St. Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall, as part of the tenth St...

Commissioned by the Salzburg Festival. First performance given by the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, with Krystian Zimerman on piano.

Score. The title of the work relates to its form, which consists of two structurally independent strands. Sections within each strand begin and end at different times. Chain 2 is in 4 movements: AD L...

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki's career spans more than 40 years, dating from the post-Stalinist era of the mid 1950s and embracing a catalogue of more than 70 acknowledged works. It was not, however, until t...

This piece was first performed in April 1977. This is the Chester Music edition but the original publishers were Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne.

Full study score of ' Cinq Reflets De L'Amour De Loin ' by Kaija Saariaho, for Soprano, Baritone and Orchestra. Cinq Reflets was commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philarmonic Orchestra - Stockholm C...

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis is a small work written for the project that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra created around The Planets of Holst. It is based on Toutatis, the asteroid whose...

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis is a small work written for the project that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra created around The Planets of Holst. It is based on Toutatis, the asteroid whose...