Chester Music

Vocal 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...

Cinq Reflets was commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philarmonic Orchestra - Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation and features texts by Amin Maalouf and Jaufré Rudel. The first performance took place on...

With a libretto written by Weir herself, based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der Blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group ra...

Words adapted from an English folk song, and written for the NMC Songbook.

The vocal score for The Hidden Place, a work for solo soprano and orchestra, written for Diana Damrau. The work sets to music a collection of poems that depict the intimate moments shared by two lover...

Miss Fortune, by British composer Judith Weir, is a contemporary re-telling of a Sicilian folk story. Tina's wealthy family lose all their possessions overnight and she is thrown into a life of povert...

Meet Me In The Green Glen is a cycle of five unaccompanied songs to poems by John Clare, composed by Brian Elias. The songs can be performed individually or as a set and by any voice. The total durati...

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for high voice with piano accompaniment in F. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for low voice with piano accompaniment in C. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries...

Judith Weir's Good Morning, Midnight was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and was first performed on 6th June 2015 at the Wigmore Hall in London. The work is arranged for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensembl...

Generations of Englishmen have been attracted to Greece, the land and its people. These are poems about various aspects of Greek life, but only two come from Greek writers. Seferis, under his birthnam...

John Tavener 's 1984 work A Mini Song-Cycle For Gina for Soprano and Piano was written for Gina Cowen, who gave the first performance along with Judith Ginsburg at St John's Church, Ladbroke Grove, Lo...

The Undying Splendour is a work by Iain Bell for Tenor Voice and Piano Accompaniment. The work was premiered in the UK at Wigmore Hall in London. The work sets three poems by First World War soldier J...

This work was commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of the New Generation Artists Scheme and was first performed at The Venue, Leeds College of Music, 20th Nov...

This song is from a projected musical film created by director/writer Margaret Constantas. On the Wentloog Levels near Cardiff, two artisan shoemakers, husband and wife, have fallen on hard times. The...

Iain Bell’s "Aurora" is a concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It premiered at the BBC Proms in 2018 with soprano...

A short setting of Shakespeare's sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, for baritone and piano, first performed in Smithfield in July 2017.

25 popular works for soprano voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performance notes b...

24 popular works for tenor voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performance notes by...

25 popular works for baritone or bass voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performanc...

A short work for tenor and piano setting the text of Laura Mucha. The work was commissioned by the Prince Consort and premiered by Andy Staples and Alisdair Hogarth at St. Swithin's, Bath, UK as part...

The vocal score for Bell’s 2019 opera, Stonewall. Commissioned by New York City Opera, and with a libretto by Mark Campbell, the opera was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stone...

Ludovico Einaudi’s first opera Winter Journey premiered in Palermo in 2019. It takes as its subject the refugee crisis in Europe and features a libretto by award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

Commissioned by John Turner for Gordon Crosse's 80th Birthday concert at The Martin Harris Centre, Manchester University, 22nd October 2017. Premiered by Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano) and John Turner (...