Chester Music

This work was commissioned in mid 1958 by Hans Oppenheim's Saltire Music Group in Thea Musgrave's native city of Edinburgh.

A dramatic cantata with music by John Tavener and text drawn from The York Cycle Of Mystery plays and the Vulgate. All soloists alternate between being narrator and character. Study Score. Duration c....

A complete musical setting of the Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova's Requiem using the original Russian text, to which some prayers from the Russian Orthodox funeral service have been added by the compo...

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...

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.