Chester Music

Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story of the boy who builds a snowman who comes to life has become a children's classic. Its popularity has been further enhanced by frequent television broadcasts o...

Work for Soprano and Tenor Soloists and Orchestra. Text: John Milton. Commissioned by the BBC for a Henry Wood Promenade Concert, August 1965.

Work for Soprano, Counter-Tenor, Baritone Soli and Orchestra. Text: Mencius.

Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1978, this work is scored for Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra.

comissioned by the City of Darmstadt for the Darmstadt State Theatre. Orchestration: 1(pic:afl)01(A.bcl)+asx.1(cbn)/1110/2perc/gtr(bjo.ebgtr)/pf(out of tune upr. pf.cel.Hmorg)/str(mltpl or sgl)/on-stg...

For Soprano and Orchestra. Text: Laurie Lee

If Davies's Cello Concerto has already evoked comparisons with Elgar's, that is perhaps an indication not only of its wealth of solo melody (there is hardly a page where the cello is not singing, or i...

The Cello Concerto is in four main sections that are played without a break. As with most of my work, the music throughout is generated from the ideas presented in the fi rst few bars, and these ideas...

Michael Nyman's Double Concerto was commissioned by Mazda Cars (UK) Limited. The work was first performed by John Harle (Saxophone), Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducte...

Michael Nyman's Double Concerto was commissioned by Mazda Cars (UK) Limited. The work was first performed by John Harle (Saxophone), Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducte...

Unusually for him, Davies starts his Bassoon Concerto not with slow music but with speed and brilliance: the opening is a Presto, initiated by the strings, and only at the entry of the soloist does th...

The first in a trilogy of works for chamber orchestra, the Sinfonia Concertante uses its forces very much in concerto fashion - and not least its timpanist, who signals the work to start and has a rea...

The solo flute here is kept in high profile by the absence from the orchestra not only of other flutes, but also of violins and oboes; in addition, the trumpets are used sparingly (they do not, for in...

The Study Score for Simon Holt 's Morpheus Wakes, a concerto for Flute or Alto Flute and Orchestra. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3, this work was first performed at the BBC Proms on 27th July 2014 at the...

A beautiful Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by Finiish composer Kaija Saariaho. This piece was first performed at the Flanders Festival in Brussels on the 12th October, 2001. This is the Solo Flute...

Davies's feeling for the potency and bravura of the clarinet goes back to works of the 1960s; his concerto for the instrument is predictably a big, ranging piece, in two linked movements. The first, f...

Solo Clarinet part for Rolf Wallin's Concerto for B Flat Clarinet and Orchestra.

Rhapsody in F Sharp for Piano and Orchestra was commissioned by the BBC Proms and first performed in the Royal Albert Hall on August 19th, 1943. Written with the wartime audience in mind, it isunasham...

Solo piano part for Lutoslawski's 1941 work for piano and orchestra (orchestrated in 1978).

Commissioned by the Salzburg Festival. First performed in August 1988 by the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, with Krystian Zimerman. Duration c. 27 mins. Full score and o...