Judith Weir

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 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...

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.

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.

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

This work was commissioned by the BBC Singers in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of Stephen Cleobury. The lyrics are from a Sardinian folk tale.

Missa del Cid was written in 1988, as part of BBC TV's 'Sound on Film' series, which showed the first performance of the piece in its entirety, together with a documentary about its creation. Subseque...

The Vocal Score for Judith Weir's 'Truly I Tell You', a setting of three different Biblical passages, from Psalms and Mark's gospel. This work was first performed by the Choir of Westminster Abbey at...

His Mercy Endureth For Ever' is a work by Judith Weir for SAATTBB Chorus and Organ Accompaniment. This was commissioned by Her Majesty's Government and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. It was firs...

Judith Weir 's Leaf From Leaf Christ Knows for SATB choir with Organ accompaniment. Leaf From Leaf Christ Knows was commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral. Its first performance took...

This work for mixed voices and organ setting text from the First Epistle of St John and Psalm 107 was commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport for a Service to commemorate...

'By Wisdom' wurde anlässlich des Platinjubiläums der britischen Königin komponiert und bei einem Dankgottesdienst in der St. Paul's Cathedral in London uraufgeführt. Zu den vielen alten Schriften, die...

Composed as a test piece for the 60th St Albans International Organ Festival in 2023. Inspired by the story of Saint Alban, a simple, plainchant-like melody representing the martyr’s cloak gradually c...