Judith Weir

The score and parts for Judith Weir 's O Viridissima, scored for Violin, Cello and Piano. The work lasts around 4 minutes, and was written as a gift for the Late Music Concert Series, being first perf...

This is the score for Judith Weir 's Praise Him With Trumpets, a work for 2 Trumpets, SATB Choir and Organ. Commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces in collaboration with The Choral Foundation, the piec...

Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of Andre Hoffmann, president of the Foundation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. First performance on 29th March 2016 at the Wigmore Hall, Londo...

Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of Andre Hoffmann, president of the Foundation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. First performance on 29th March 2016 at the Wigmore Hall, Londo...

The Sweet Primroses is a work by Judith Weir for Mezzo-Soprano Voice and Viola. Commissioned by the University of Birmingham for the CrossCurrents Festival 2016, the first performance was in February...

A Few Words Of Thanks is a work by Judith Weir for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Viola and Cello. This is the Score/Parts, and a full performance lasts around 1. 5 minutes.

Composed for the Schubert Ensemble's farewell tour and modelled on 'Abschied' from Schubert's Schwanengesang, this four-minute piece gives each player a brief solo before the work's close. A light-hea...

Composed for the Schubert Ensemble's farewell tour and modelled on 'Abschied' from Schubert's Schwanengesang, this four-minute piece gives each player a brief solo before the work's close. A light-hea...

A setting of four poems by Wallace Stevens, Kathleen Jamie, Norman MacCaig and Emily Dickinson for soprano, cello and piano. commissioned by Kings Place, and first performed there on 24th October 2019...

Commissioned by the Lontano Ensemble, and first performed by them on 21st January 1981. In this piece, one instrument per movement is given musical prominence over the other two. Duration: c. 15 minu...

Work for Wind Quintet and Piano.

Work for Chamber Ensemble commissioned for the Fires of London by the St Magnus Festival Society with funds from the Scottish Arts Council.

A3 Size Score of the Opera in 3 Acts with libretto by the composer, based on the 13th Century Chinese drama The Chao Family Orphan.

Work for Solo Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Text: Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Clarissa Pinkola Estes. The piece was first performed by Jessye Norman and the Orchest...

Winter Song is a 17-minute continuous movement for a small orchestra consisting of 12 winds and aminimum of 24 strings, in which every player is a soloist. This glorious piece was beautifully composed...

For Clarinet and Piano. These pieces were inspired by the life of James Reid, a bagpiper in Prince Charlie's Jacobite army, who was captured by the English in 1746 and executed, after a Judge had clas...

For Various different sizes of Clarinet and Piano.

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...

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...

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...