Chester Music

Year composed: 2016

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Impressions for prepared harpsichord. Written for Guðrun Óskarsdottir. The first performance was given on 30 January 2016 at Harpa Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland. Duratio...

A short work for soprano, baritone, vibraphone and piano setting the librettist Tamsin Collison's text about online dating.

A work for Clarinet and String Quartet commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts. First performed by Rozenn Le Trionnaire (clarinet) and the Albion Quartet on 24th August 2019 at S...

For Harpsichord solo.

Work for Chamber Orchestra. Alternative Title: Heroische Bogenstriche.

Work for two Sopranos, Alto and Band composed in 1990.

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Chapple's Praeludiana is an extended 'celebration' of Chopin's well-known prelude in C minor. First, a fast, flashing sequence of chords moves from manual to manual: next a Stravinskyan barrage of bra...

These variations are based on some of the musical material which Geoffrey Burgon composed for the Granada Television adaption of Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited. '

On 23 June 2013 Peter Maxwell Davies's Capstone, for organ, received its world premiere performance at the City of London Festival. Commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral, Capstone was performed at the C...

Mandēlion was commissioned for the 1982 Dublin International Organ Festival by RHM Foods. It was first performed on the 27th June 1982 by Pete Sweeney, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The piece...

This essentially contemplative work in four movements is based on a plainsong fragment from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, traditionally sung on Maundy Thursday in the ceremonies spiralling down to the...

Two works for the organ that are both composed around plainsong textures and melodies, together as a unified pair of performance pieces. Reliqui Domum Meum was first performed in Orkney, 1996 by Heath...

The first performance of Six Bagatelles was given by Margaret Phillips in St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis, on 18 November 2011. Six Bagatelles are transcriptions for organ of six of the Bagatelles di...

Theory has never been so easy! Chester's Easy-Peasy Theory, by Carol Barratt, gives young children a real sense of enjoyment as they begin to learn the language of music. The worksheets are carefully...

Theory has never been so easy! Chester's Easy-Peasy Theory Set 2 follows on from Set 1 and gives young children a real sense of enjoyment as they begin to learn the language of music. The worksheetsa...

Enjoy learning music theory from the very beginning. How To Blitz! Beginner Theory is the perfect introduction to theory for budding musicians of all ages. This book provides an easy-to-follow, enjoya...

Learn the rules of harmony with this easy-to-follow guide. How To Blitz! Four-Part Harmony is the perfect resource for musicians of all ages.

This book gives you everything you'll need to Blitz! the ABRSM Grade 2 Theory exam. It contains: - Everything you need to know (and nothing you don't) for the 2018 syllabus. - More information, revisi...

This book gives you everything you'll need to Blitz! the ABRSM Grade 3 Theory exam. It contains: - Everything you need to know (and nothing you don't) for the 2018 syllabus. - More information, revisi...