Chester Music

This piece for contralto and piano setting a text from Charles Baudelaire was co-commissioned by Oxford Lieder and the Baudelaire Song Project, with the generous support of the Nicholas John Trust, th...

A short work for mezzo-soprano and piano setting the text of former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Andrew Motion

A monodrama encapsulating the compassion, grief, hope and terror of those living through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. The Man With Night Sweats was commissioned by Nigel Foster and the London Song Fe...

For soprano and piano, commissioned by Carolyn Sampson.

Six Songs of Melmoth was commissioned by Oxford Lieder and is a musical matryoshka inspired by Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin and Melmoth by Sarah Perry. The text was written by Sophie Rashbr...

Version for Mezzo-soprano. Composed for the 11th International Chamber Music Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music", On White Meadows is a setting in English of five short verses from Wilhelm M...

Version for Soprano or Tenor. Composed for the 11th International Chamber Music Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music", On White Meadows is a setting in English of five short verses from Wilhel...

Version for Baritone. Composed for the 11th International Chamber Music Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music", On White Meadows is a setting in English of five short verses from Wilhelm Müller...

Version for Bass. Composed for the 11th International Chamber Music Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music", On White Meadows is a setting in English of five short verses from Wilhelm Müller's D...

We Two is a song cycle for Bass-baritone and piano and sets excerpts from Leaves of Grass by great American poet Walt Whitman. The first live performance took place at the New York Festival of Song in...

Vocal score for Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, which was premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021 in a production directed by Simon Stone. Set at a wedding, the drama centres arou...

Vocal score for Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, which was premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021 in a production directed by Simon Stone. Set at a wedding, the drama centres arou...

Five sonnets for high, bel canto tenor and string orchestra, settings words by Richard Barnfield on the epiphanies, anxieties and obsessions of queer love.

Writer John Delaney and composer Oliver Davis collaborated on an operatic project based on the Irish mythological tale of Tir na Nog. This Mortal Man was written from the perspective of the goddess Ni...

Commissioned in 2014 by Welsh National Opera, Ffilm Cymru Wales and The Space as part of WMO's Occupation: Five songs that shook the world, directed by Margaret Constantas.

The original version of Kaija Saariaho’s Saarikoski-laulut for voice and piano (CH88086) was written for the soprano Anu Komsi, to whom the songs are dedicated. The song cycle is based on a collection...

Commissioned by the Oxford Lieder Festival, for baritone and piano, this song sets text by Charles Baudelaire in an English translation by Eleanor Brown. Premiered by Ashley Riches, baritone and Micha...

Everything grows extravagantly was co-commissioned by Oxford Lieder and the Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum, in celebration of the 20th Oxford Lieder Festival and the 400th anniversary of the Oxford...

A two and a half minute piece for voices and piano, commissioned and first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery Choir conducted by Neil Ferris..One Earth sets a text by Di Sherlock for...

A two and a half minute piece for voices and piano, commissioned and first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery Choir conducted by Neil Ferris..One Earth sets a text by Di Sherlock for...

This aphorism after Aristotle - 13 bars plus a lunga pausa - was written for the wedding of Cheryl and the American trumpeter and percussionist, Brant Tilds, 31 August 2013. The three singers on the o...

Small Journeys' for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano was written with support from the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. Each of the five songs represent an inci...

There Will Be a Place is a song for soprano and piano composed by Rachel Portman with text by American poet Dorothy Trogdon. It was premiered by Lucy Crowe and Anna Tilbrook in London in 2024.

The English Language version of The Black Spider (also known as The Mystery of The Black Spider) commissioned by Opera North. Originally written in 1984, this is a very popular opera by Judith Weir. T...