Chester Music

This short opera (duration of 50 minutes), aptly designed for children to perform with modest resources, is a version of the familiar tale, though with certain adaptations. Cinderella is an au pair gi...

Selected and graded especially for use by singing teachers, students and amateur performers by Shirley Leah. Includes works by Armstrong-Gibbs, Arne, Dvorak, le Flemming, Handel, Lully, Rosa, Rosseter...

Selected and graded especially for use by singing teachers, students, and amateur performers by Shirley Leah. Includes works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Dowland, Faure, Greig, Handel, Mendelssohn, Moeran,...

Selected and graded especially for use by singing teachers, students, and amateur performers by Shirley Leah. Includes works by Falla, Faure, Giordiani, Greig, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Munro, Nielse...

For High Voice and Piano. Text: WH Auden. Commissioned by and dedicated to Alice Esty.

The song cycle 'Lunar Beauty' was commissioned by the Harrogate International Festival. First performed on 9th August 1986. Arranged for tenor or medium voice and guitar. Duration 12 minutes.

A Spanish Liederbooklet is a short song cycle (of about eight minutes' duration) for high soprano and piano written for Eileen Hulse in 1988. Eileen gave the first performance, accompanied by Graham J...

This was originally written for soprano, counter tenor and baritone soloists and chamber orchestra. This version scored for soprano, counter tenor and piano, was composed in 1997 for a concert given b...

Classic music from the top-selling album 'Voices', including some of the world's finest vocal music as performed by Louis Armstrong, Russell Watson and Placido Domingo. Arranged for piano with separat...

Facing Goya, Nyman's first full-length opera, is written in four acts on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. Following it's first performance in 2000, it was revised in 2002 and again in 2014. In its origi...

All the songs in The Voice of Desire are conversations between humans and birds. In each case, the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint that their human hearers. One of the highlights is...

Vokalpartitur für Adriana Mater - die zweite Oper der finnischen Komponistin Kaija Saariaho und des Librettisten Amin Maalouf. Das 2005 geschriebene Werk ist Saariahos umfangreichste und längste Oper...

Cinq Reflets wurde vom Königlichen Philharmonischen Orchester Stockholm - Stiftung Konzerthaus Stockholm in Auftrag gegeben und enthält Texte von Amin Maalouf und Jaufré Rudel. Die Uraufführung fand a...

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...

John Tavener 's Schuon Lieder is a work of 6 songs arranged for Voice and Piano by the composer, with words by Frithjof Schuon. This version was first performed at the Wigmore Hall in London on 28th S...

Die Vokalpartitur für The Hidden Place, ein Werk für Solosopran und Orchester, das für Diana Damrau geschrieben wurde. Das Werk vertont eine Sammlung von Gedichten, die die intimen Momente zweier Lieb...

Miss Fortune, by British composer Judith Weir, is a contemporary re-telling of a Sicilian folk story. Tina's wealthy family lose all their possessions overnight and she is thrown into a life of povert...

Meet Me In The Green Glen is a cycle of five unaccompanied songs to poems by John Clare, composed by Brian Elias. The songs can be performed individually or as a set and by any voice. The total durati...

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for high voice with piano accompaniment in F. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for low voice with piano accompaniment in C. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries...

Judith Weir's Good Morning, Midnight was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and was first performed on 6th June 2015 at the Wigmore Hall in London. The work is arranged for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensembl...

Generations of Englishmen have been attracted to Greece, the land and its people. These are poems about various aspects of Greek life, but only two come from Greek writers. Seferis, under his birthnam...

John Tavener 's 1984 work A Mini Song-Cycle For Gina for Soprano and Piano was written for Gina Cowen, who gave the first performance along with Judith Ginsburg at St John's Church, Ladbroke Grove, Lo...