Chester Music

This motet for unaccompanied SATB choir was commissioned for the 500th anniversary of King's College, Cambridge. This is a setting in Greek of an Orthodox prayer to Christ as Son and Word, God and Man...

A short work for unaccompanied SSAATBB choir using a poem based on Serefis' Eonia (The Jasmin). The text uses both English and Greek. This work was commissioned for the 27th Seminar on Contemporary Ch...

This work for unaccompanied SATB soli and choir was commissioned in the name of Sir Thomas Armstrong by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, for performance at the St. Cecilia's Day service in Westminster A...

Corpus Christi, With Cat And Mouse is a setting of fragments selected from the Richard Hill Commonplace Book, an early 16th century manuscript in the library of Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned b...

For SATB Choir A Cappella. Text: Francis Thompson. Premiere: St Paul's Cathedral Choir under the direction of John Scott, July 1994.

This prayer is the foundation of Orthodox faith in the Holy Trinity. Says Tavener: 'In setting it to music, I have tried to capture something of the deep conjunction and repentance which lie at the he...

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir, using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar. A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear, simple images Ge...

The mood of As One Who Has Slept, taken from the great liturgy of St. Basil on Easter Saturday morning, is full of awe, silence and expectation. The atmosphere is deeply solemn as we stand before the...

For unaccompanied treble chorus of mixed voices (SSSAAATTTBBB).

A moving work written by Tavener in loving memory of his father. For solo tenor (or baritone) and unaccompanied choir SATB, with optional strings.

For solo tenor (or bass) with small group of basses and unaccompanied SATB choir, composed by Tavener in 1997. 'The Ancient Saints of France (pre-schism) are acknowledged deeply revered by the Orthodo...

In this piece for unaccompanied SATB choir, fervent, dance-like music appears side by side with fear and awe, producing a dramatic contrast. The work was commissioned jointly by the Dean and Chapter o...

This is a wonderful work for unaccompanied SATB choir, to be sung with enormous intensity and sonority. First performed in June 1998 by the Chester Cathedral Choir conducted by David Poulter. This is...

Dear Willoughby was written for the memorial service of Willoughby Pountney in 1998. The Nailsea Choral Society were conducted by Tim Donaldson, with Emilia Pountney (soprano) and Roger Sansom (huntin...

Henryk Miko aj Górecki (1933-2010) was a Polish composer, who at one point was the most popular living classical composer anywhere in the world. His 1972 work, Euntes Ibant Et Flebant (Op. 32) is one...

With Piano part for rehearsal only.

Miniature vocal score for two works for unaccompanied SATB choir, Ikon Of The Nativity and O, Do Not Move. Ikon Of The Nativity was first performed in December 1991 by Cappella Nova conducted by Alan...

Il Rozzo Martello for unaccompanied choir SATB, by Peter Maxwell Davies, was commissioned by BBC Radio 3. It was first performed on 14th August 1997 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, by the BBC Sin...

This work for unaccompanied SATB/TTB choir was commissioned by Hurstpierpoint College on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. The first performance was given in May 1999 at Hurstpierpoint College by...

A prominent composer of the 20th Century, this work was written for large mixed choir a cappella. The composer notes that the chorus should consist of at least 120 singers. Miserere was first performe...

A Garland For Linda is an evocative and moving anthology of works for a cappella chorus to commemorate the life of Linda McCartney. Modelled on the precedent of A Garland For The Queen (1953), nine Br...

In Memory was written in memory of Glen Schaefer, and all the departed souls of America. The words come from the Orthodox Funeral Service and from a text by Mother Thekla. For SATB Choir A Cappella. J...

Commissioned by the Guildford Philharmonic for the Tallis Scholars. First performance by the Tallis Scholars on 10th March 2000, at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford. Arranged for unaccompanied choir SAT...

For SATB Choir. Text: W. B Yeats