Judith Weir Sheet Music for Voices

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

Judith Weir's work is often inspired by narrative, folklore and theatre. This creepy-crawly work was inspired by the novel Die Schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf, a tale about an evil, venomous spid...

Grand opera in three acts for unaccompanied solo soprano singing eight roles. This work was commissioned by Jane Manning, and first performed by her 17 May 1979. Duration: c. 10 minutes.

For Tenor (or Soprano) and Piano. Scotch Minstrelsy is a song cycle comprising settings of five Scottish ballads whose subject matter is almost exclusively violent happenings which take place against...

Opera in 3 Acts with libretto by the composer, based on the 13th Century Chinese drama The Chao Family Orphan.

On Buying A Horse is a work for Medium Voice and Piano by Judith Weir. This piece received its first performance on 18th February 1992 in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh by the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts...

For Baritone Voice and Piano. Commissioned by the BBC for an anthology of new songs celebrating the Schubert Bi-centenary. Text: Ludwig Rellstab.