Chester Music

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...

The Lamb, a setting for unaccompanied choir of words by William Blake, was first performed by the choir of King's College, Cambridge on 24th December 1982, as part of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Ca...

Taken from Veil of the Temple and arranged for string orchestra.

The Hidden Face is a prayer, for solo counter-tenor, oboe, and a distant group of muted violins and violas. It tries to hold within it a whole tradition with nothing personal or idiosyncratic, as in i...

Written for male voice choir, handbells, Tibetian temple bowl and string quintet.

First performance by the Nash Ensemble (Philippa Davies, alto flute/piccolo, Lawrence Power, viola, andLucy Wakeford, harp) on 12th July 2004 at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, as part of the Che...

First performance by the Nash Ensemble (Philippa Davies, alto flute/piccolo, Lawrence Power, viola, andLucy Wakeford, harp) on 12th July 2004 at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, as part of the Che...

Cantus Mysticus was commissioned by The Foundation for the Cuenca Religious Music Week. First performance on 22nd March 2005, as part of the XLIV Cuenca Religious Music Week, by Joan Enric Lluna (clar...

First performance on 20th November 2007, at St George's Hall, Liverpool, by Nicholas Cox (Clarinet) and the Chilingirian Quartet, as part of the Rodewald Concert Series.

Written for viol consort. This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performance by Concordia on 17 July 2004 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.

Written for viol consort. This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performance by Concordia on 17 July 2004 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.

Premiered by Simon Preston at the 1968 Cheltenham Festival.

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...

By the age of forty, Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg was one of the busiest concert composers in the world. His music avails itself of all manner of modern innovations, but there is a Neo-Classical o...

Compete set of parts. Contains 4x Easy Recorder, and 4x Tuned Percussion. Words and Music by Terry Gilkyson, arranged by Ian Butler.

If Ye Love Me, by John Tavener, was commissioned by Manchester International Festival (MIF Creative) with thanks to the support of the MIF Commissioning Circle. In If Ye Love Me, there are subtle echo...

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...

Tauchen Sie ein in die klanggewaltige Welt der Orgelmusik: Das „Impromptu for Organ“, ein bemerkenswertes Werk aus dem Jahr 1941, präsentiert sich in dieser hochwertigen Notenausgabe von Chester Music...

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...