Intermediate Sheet Music from Chester Music

At every turn Nyman has proved eminently practical. Not for him the ivory tower anguish of a tormented composer grappling with abstract systems. Rather he has consistently displayed an openness to col...

Written for violin and piano.

The three works for violin and piano were written over a period of almost two years during 1943 and 1944. Away from the bustle of London, where Busch had lived before ill-health began to plague him, h...

A new trinlingual edition (2003) of the puppet opera composed between 1919 and 1923.

Written for soprano voice and piano. Words by William Blake.

De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat (El Sombrero De Tres Picos) is a fantastic ballet, which includes the well-known Miller's Dance. Available here is the vocal score, containing the Mezzo-Soprano part (or...

Six songs for Soprano and Small Orchestra, here with piano reduction.

In this small-scale song cycle, Taverner coloured his melodic Soprano lines with Eastern European and Slavic flavour. At some points the composer interplayed the Piano line with the sung melody and at...

Clandestiny is scored for soprano and organ and lasts approximately 20 minutes. It is a collection of ten poems or quotations from the American poet Emily Dickinson. The movements vary in length from...

Written for soprano and piano with text taken from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Measure for measure and Othello.

Hymn of Dawn was commissioned jointly by the Ulster Orchestra and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. First performance on 7th November 2004 during the Belfast Festival at Queen's, at the Waterfront Hall,...

Conductor, composer and pianist, André Previn continues to redefine the possibilities in his extraordinary career, already one of the most distinguished musicians of our time. This work with original...

Written for SATB choir and orchestra. Commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and first performed on Saturday 6 May 2006 by the Festival Chorus and Academy of Ancient Music conducted by John...

Rapsodie Nègre is the work with which Poulenc made his compositional début in Paris. It utilizes an unusual grouping of instruments and draws on African/Oriental exoticism and pentatonic melodies, cou...

The première of Leo Brouwer's Concierto de Benicassim took place at the Certamen Internacional de Guitarra 'Francisco Tárrega' in Benicassim, Spain on 31st August 2002 to mark the 150th anniversary of...

This piece was written for guitar solo and orchestra in 1999. It is also known as Concierto No. 8-Concierto Cantata de Perugia.

First performed on 14th September 1997, at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki by John Storgårds, violin, the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, conductor.

The Concerto is dedicated to Dennis Russell Davies and Paul Zukofzky, who present the first performance. The orchestral accompaniment consists of two flutes (one doubling as piccolo), two oboes, E-fla...

Composer's Notes: This piece, written during the winter months of 2000-2001, consists of one movement, Allegro con fuoco, in which an old score is revisited, raided and ravished by its composer. The e...

Tides was commissioned by Kroumata Percussion Ensemble with fundings from NOMUS and Det Norske Komponisfond.

The piece was commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra. It was premiered by the orchestra, conducted by Franz Weltzer-Möst on 4 March 2004 in Severance Hall, Cleveland, USA.

Different Voices received its first performance on 9 April 2007 given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Debbie Wiseman, soprano soloist: HayleyWestenra and narration of the story by Ste...