Chester Music

This is an updated edition of Francis Poulenc's 1962 work Sonata For Oboe And Piano, edited by Millan Sachania. Featuring the full score and a separate Oboe part, this exclusive edition also includes...

Five North-Eastern Scenes for oboe and piano was commissioned by the Kunstförderverein Kreis Düren e. V. for the 2016 Spannungen chamber music festival in Heimbach, Germany. 'The piece is in five sho...

15 popular works for Oboe with Piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes pull-out part, and performance notes by Ni...

This short piece for oboe and piano was inspired by the music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Lasting around six minutes, a laid-back blues-infected introduction gives way to a more rhythmic central...

Two Birthday Fragments was composed for the 60th birthday of oboist Nicholas Daniel. The two-minute piece comprises a rhapsodic opening and a sharply contrasting second movement subtitled 'After Ferna...

This version of Partita was orchestrated by the composer in 1988 for Anne-Sophie Mutter. The first performance was given in January 1990 by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by...

Work for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra. Judith Weir: Much of my non-operatic work for solo voice occupies an area between folk music and cabaret. In 1990 I began a personal project, which is still going...

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts fr...

Concerto For Flute And Orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Flanders Festival in Brussels 12th October 2001. Composer's Notes: I have been very familiar with the flute since my earli...

Esa-Pekka Salonen's first large scale orchestral work is this Concerto for saxophone and orchestra ('...auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen...') which dates from 1980-81 when he was undertaking an...

With a libretto written by Judith 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 rathe...

From an 18, 000 verse Hindu text, the Bhagavata Purana composed about AD900, this extract is about the coming of the yearly monsoon rain. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchsetra on the occasion of the...

Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on to the next piece. This was particularly the...

The first broadcast of the incidental music for D. G. Bridson's radio drama, King Arthur was given on 23rd April (St. George's Day) 1937. The first performance of this Suite for Orchestra was given on...

This concert version has been prepared by Donald Mitchell for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone soloists, 1 or 2 speakers, SATB choir and Orchestra. The text has been compiled by R. Ellis Roberts. Th...

In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C, it became clear that there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. S...

For Soprano and Orchestra. Natural History was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was written for the voice of Dawn Upshaw. The first performance was given by these artists, conducted...

Kevin Volans ' Piano Concerto No. 4 was commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with financial assistance from Arts for All and many individuals through BCMG's Sound Investment Scheme. Th...

Kaija Saariaho’s Song for Betty is an arrangement of the last movement from her opera L’amour de loin and was an 80th birthday gift for Betty Freeman, who very generously supported the commission of t...

Philip Glass' Piano Concerto No 2 was composed in 2004 and has a duration of approximately 34 minutes. Commissioned by the Nebraska Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, Board of Regents of the Uni...

Kevin Volans 'Abhaya' for four percussionists. This work was commissioned by Hamiruge, the Louisiana State University School of Music's percussion group. Abhaya 's first performance took place at the...

Ellen Reid’s Fear - Release for four percussionists was commissioned by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet to be recorded for Sono Luminus in surround sound. According to the composer, the piece is ab...