Chester Music

Nebelheim Und Sonnenland is a fourteen-minute continuous suite for Orchestra of material from Hans Werner Henze's last operatic work, 'Gisela!' (2010). This piece was arranged by distinguished conduct...

Symphony No. 2 began its life as Pozcatek, a 'Michael Nyman Band' 'soundtrack' that was written for the Michael Nyman Band to accompany a selection of sequences from post-war Polish filmsthatNyman sel...

Ciel D'Hiver by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, scored for the Orchestra. The ten minute piece Ciel D'Hiver is an arrangement of the second movement of Kaija Saariaho's 2002 Orchestral piece Orio...

Bryce Dessner's St. Carolyn By The Sea. Full score for two Electric Guitars and Orchestra. This piece was co-commissioned by the AmericanComposers Orchestra with the support of LVMH Moët Hennessy Loui...

This is the study score for Simon Holt 's An Icicle Of Moon, a work for Orchestra. The piece was commissioned by Bamberger Symphoniker and its first performance was on 31st October 2014 at the Joseph-...

Composer's Note: Quilting, co-commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is my first stand alone work for orchestra and is loosely inspired by the American tradition...

A3 Score for Symphony No. 9 by Philip Glass.

First performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 1965 by Peter Pears with the Philharmonia of London conducted by the composer. Duration c. 16 mins.

Work for Orchestra premiered by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1984.

Work for Orchestra.

An innovative devotional work for full orchestra accompanied by tape cassette (which runs for the duration of the piece). The music is based on the plagal of the fourth Byzantine tone. Large (A3) scor...

Howard Blake's The Snowman - Schools Version. Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe (or 2nd Flute), 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bassoon, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, Trombone/Tuba, Descant/Tenor Recorder, Treble Re...

Henze's Fünf Botschafen Für Die Königin Von Saba was commissioned by Radio France. It received its première on 3rd February 2005 at the Théâtre Des Champs-Élysées, Paris by the Orchestre National de F...

Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze's penultimate opera, and this item...

Three songs and scenes linked by instrumental transitions make up this exciting story about a robbery with a car chase! Scope for a large group of children to be involved. The copiable parts book cont...

Opera scored for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and 2 Baritone Soli, SSAATTBB Chorus and Orchestra. Text: from Popular Tales of the West Highlands.

Written for voice and piano.

Commissioned by Salzburg Festival co-produced with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, and Teatro Massimo Palermo.

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...

The simplest introduction to learning to read music. This book looks at basic musical theory - note names, signs and symbols, what they look like and what they mean. No musical knowledge is needed - i...

Ukulele From The Beginning - Songbook 2 is a great collection of favourite songs chosen specially for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument. The songs are very simple, using onl...

Fanfare; Portsmouth is a work for Brass Ensemble, composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, to celebrate its re-opening, it was first performed there on 11th...

Fanfare; Portsmouth is a work for Brass Ensemble, composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, to celebrate its re-opening, it was first performed there on 11th...