Chester Music

Motet for the Feast of the Holy Name for five voices (SAATB). Edited by Anthony Petti.

Vocal Score. Scored for mixed choir, SATB.

William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) was an English renaissance composer who wrote several well-known works in both the Catholic and Anglican traditions, many of which are still highly popular today. He studie...

This work for soprano solo and SATB choir, written in 1976, was commissioned by Cantores in Ecclesia. The first performance was given in April 1977 by the Rye Spring Music. This is a special item whic...

An opera in one or two acts for children. Libretto by David Taylor.

Work for SSATBB Chorus commissioned by the 1978 Three Choirs Festival.

Veni Spiritus' was commissioned by the Royal Choral Society in memory of Linda Shirley Neuse. Written for soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra, this arrangement is for all vocal parts a...

Written for STB choir.

This was composed in 1979 and is scored for SATTB and Organ. This work is a setting of a sixteenth-century poem which is a plea for death to come and bring an end to suffering, thereby affording peace...

Composed in 1980

This work was commissioned by the Chester Summer Music Festival for Stephen Wilkinson and the BBC Northern Singers. The first performance was given as part of a concert at Chester Town Hall on 23 July...

A setting of the Evening Canticles for SATB Choir and Organ. Commissioned by the Southern Cathedrals Festival.

For Tenor Soloist, SATB Chorus, Organ and String Orchestra. Commissioned by the English Opera Group for the 5th Aldeburgh Festival. Premiered by Peter Pears. Please note that other than the chorus par...

For SSATBB Chorus. This work was included as No. 5 of A Garland for the Queen, to mark the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

For SSATB Choir. Commissioned for the celebration of the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the birth of Saint Benedict. Premiere by Westminster Cathedral Choir under the direction of Stephen Cleobury.

John Taverner's Western Wind Mass is one of three extant Early Tudor masses bearing that title, the others being by Christopher Tye and John Shepherd. They are so named because their canutus firmus de...

Burgon composed this in 1983.

Commissioned for the the Service of 9 Lessons and Carols by Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King's College Cambridge. This short four-stanza carol follows an ABBA structure.