Chester Music

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

The composer made this arrangement of the Third String Quartet for string orchestra in March 2003. The first performance was given by the Eos Orchestra, New York, conducted by Ken Selden in the Concer...

The Harvest Of Sorrow was fifth in a collection of six songs for Piano and solo Voice, published in 1893 as Rachmaninoff's opus 4. Also known as Song For My Cornfield, it sets a poem byTolstoyin the s...

John Ireland, Three Songs set to words by Arthur Symons for medium voice and piano. English text.

Suite of Songs for Female Voice accompanied by three clarinets. Traditional Russian Texts translated into French by C. F. Ramuz. This reduction for Voice and Piano was made by the Composer. Miniature...

For Medium Voice and Piano. The first two songs, in addition to the Russian and French texts, all so offer an English alternative.

Manuel de Falla's music perfectly reflects the full-blooded passion and intellectual aspirations of early 20th century Spanish culture. His personal life seemed to echo the spirit of his times and the...

Pulcinella is a Ballet commissioned by Diaghilev and first performed in 1920. It was based around themes and melodies from Pergolesi, but with modern harmonies and rhythms, and marked the start of the...

Piano and Vocal Score

This short opera (duration of 50 minutes), aptly designed for children to perform with modest resources, is a version of the familiar tale, though with certain adaptations. Cinderella is an au pair gi...

Selected and graded especially for use by singing teachers, students and amateur performers by Shirley Leah. Includes works by Armstrong-Gibbs, Arne, Dvorak, le Flemming, Handel, Lully, Rosa, Rosseter...

Selected and graded especially for use by singing teachers, students, and amateur performers by Shirley Leah. Includes works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Dowland, Faure, Greig, Handel, Mendelssohn, Moeran,...

Selected and graded especially for use by singing teachers, students, and amateur performers by Shirley Leah. Includes works by Falla, Faure, Giordiani, Greig, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Munro, Nielse...

For High Voice and Piano. Text: WH Auden. Commissioned by and dedicated to Alice Esty.

Songs from the Exotic were commissioned by Josephine Nendick, who gave the first performance with Michael Finnissy on 7th October 1987 in Cambridge. These four songs were inspired by folk traditions o...

A Spanish Liederbooklet is a short song cycle (of about eight minutes' duration) for high soprano and piano written for Eileen Hulse in 1988. Eileen gave the first performance, accompanied by Graham J...

Work for Solo Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Text: Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The piece was first performed by Jessye Norman and the Orchest...

This was originally written for soprano, counter tenor and baritone soloists and chamber orchestra. This version scored for soprano, counter tenor and piano, was composed in 1997 for a concert given b...

Classic music from the top-selling album 'Voices', including some of the world's finest vocal music as performed by Louis Armstrong, Russell Watson and Placido Domingo. Arranged for piano with separat...

Facing Goya, Nyman's first full-length opera, is written in four acts on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. Following it's first performance in 2000, it was revised in 2002 and again in 2014. In its origi...

All the songs in The Voice of Desire are conversations between humans and birds. In each case, the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint that their human hearers. One of the highlights is...