Chester Music

The Chester String Series has been providing high quality musical works for developing String Players for over 60 years. Viola Book 1 contains eight graded pieces in the 1stposition, including works b...

Five Sketches' was commissioned by Nicholas Logie and first performed by him on 31 May 1984 at the Wigmore Hall. Quoting Maconchy: I have always had a particular affection for the viola with its dark...

For Viola and Piano, this is the composer's first opused work. Premiered at the Wigmore Hall in July 1959 by Cecil Aronowitz and Margaret Kitchen. Wood: In 1957 I knew I had newly discovered the music...

The Chester String Series has been providing high quality musical works for developing String Players for over 60 years. Viola Book 2 contains eleven pieces covering the 1st-3rd positions, including w...

Invocation, Dance and Meditation by Robert Saxton, written in 1991 for viola and piano.

Viola and Piano was commissioned for the Hindermith Viola Festival and Kim Kashkashian and written during the summer of 1995, Viola and Piano is the third in an erratic series of virtuoso works for so...

Notes From a Diary was jointly commissioned by Thorunn Ósk Marinosdottir and the Hebrides Ensemble with financial support from Musica Nova, the Ministry of Culture in Iceland, NESTA and the Scottish A...

For solo viola and ensemble - Wind quintet and string quintet (Piano reduction of score).

This work was commissioned by Roger Chase. First performance on 16th February 2009, at the Stradivari Music and Arts Center, Chicago.

Commissioned by the Wigmore Hall for the composer's 60th birthday with funds from ACNI. 'viola:piano is one of a set of 6 pieces which I wrote in 2008 and 2009. Two of the others, violin:piano and ce...

Richard Reed Parry's Duet For Heart And Breath Treble Clef version for Viola (or other instrument of suitable range) and Piano (or other polyphonic instrument). The performers wear stethoscopes positi...

Elizabeth Maconchy composed her Sonata For Viola And Piano in 1937, which premiered the following year in London. Included in this is the Score and Parts for Viola and Piano, with the piece lasting ar...

Tribute To Michael Berkeley is a piece written by Hugh Wood for solo Viola. It was composed as a farewell tribute to Michael Berkeley, in appreciation of his work as Director of the Cheltenham Festiva...

For Bob. arranged for Viola and Piano. First performed by Elisabeth Smalt and Kevin Volans, London 2016. Composers Note: I have no idea where this piece came from and how it is structured. Butbefore...

Esa-Pekka Salonen's Pentatonic Etude for solo viola written in 2008 and revised in 2014.

The composer's note on this copy of the autograph score has the following directions: 'Out of the Night was written to be played in order to 'greet the dawn' outside St Catherine's Monastery Sinai' an...

Julian Lloyd Webber's touching and inspired tribute to the great cellist Jacqueline du Pre, first performed in January 1999 in London's Wigmore Hall. Cello and piano version. Duration c. 3mins.

Commissioned by the Park Lane Group and premiered in the Purcell Room in 1972.

Pibroch, which literally means 'piping' in Scots Gaelic, has been traditionally played on the bagpipes for several centuries. But there is an earlier tradition of pibroch having been performed on the...

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953) was an English composer and poet. He studied Piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and was considered, for a time, to be in the leading group of...