Chester Music

A Torrent Of Gold is a work for SSA Chorus and Piano Accompaniment by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by Hurstpierpoint College, the first performance was on 15th January 2016. A setting of a poem...

How Soon? is a work by Nico Muhly for SSAA Choir and Ensemble. Commissioned by eighth blackbird, the Kennesaw State University School of Music, and the Anima-Young Singers of Greater Chicago, the piec...

For Soprano Solo, Female Voices and Piano.

The original version of Bryce Dessner's To The Sea was premiered on 2nd November 2011 during the 'Monstrance' installation, in collaboration with Matthew Ritchie, at L & M Arts Los Angeles. This versi...

For Trebles and organ by Lennox Berkeley. Adapted from A Festival Anthem op. 21 no. 2 (1945)

The Fall of Lucifer was commissioned for the Silver Jubilee of the Tilford Bach Festival with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. The first performance was given on 13 May 1977. This...

A work for SATB chorus and orchestra, commissioned by Bedford School. The first performance was given by the school's First Orchestra and Choral Society conducted by Andrew Morris in October 1981. Thi...

The Chester Books Of Madrigals offer an exciting collection of secular European madrigals, partsongs and rounds from the 16th and early 17th centuries, newly edited from early sources by Anthony G. Pe...

The Chester Books Of Madrigals offer an exciting collection of secular European madrigals, partsongs and rounds from the 16th and ear;y 17th centuries, newly edited from early sources by Anthony G. Pa...

The Chester Books Of Madrigals offer an exciting collection of secular European madrigals, partsongs and rounds from the 16th and early 17th centuries, newly edited from early sources by Anthony G. Pa...

The Chester Books Of Madrigals offer an exciting collection of secular European madrigals, partsongs and rounds from the 16th and ear;y 17th centuries, newly edited from early sources by Anthony G. Pa...

Christopher Brown has always felt a particular affinity for vocal music, and his choral works and operas form an essential part of his output. This work is a 'seasonal cycle' for SATB chorus and orche...

Cyril Ornadel and Kelvin Reynolds. A new ecological musical in two acts set 30 years into the future. The rivers and land are polluted and the children of the village have never seen a flower, bee or...

Quoting Burgon: My first thought on receiving this commission was what sort of text would suit. Something on the general idea of growth - starting very small and blossoming was the obvious way to go,...

A continuous setting of six poems from George Mackay Brown's Fishermen with Plough, which concern the traditional ways of life and death in Radwick, the village on hoy, Orkney where the composer lived...

Composed in 2003, The Kestrel Road was jointly commissioned by forty-seven choirs, all of which are members of Music Making - a national society that links several thousand amateur choirs and orchestr...

Written for SATB chorus and brass ensemble, with a piano reduction. Text by Dylan Thomas.

The English versatile composer, arranger and performer, Harvey Brough, was trained at Coventry Cathedral Choir, the Royal Academy of Music and then at Clare College Cambridge. After leaving college he...

Earthlight was commissioned by Chester Music Festival 2008 and given its premiere at Chester Cathedral on July 25th 2008 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Chester Festival Chorus...

Vocal Score for John Tavener's Three Hymns Of George Herbert for SATB chorus, percussion and strings. Commissioned by the Legatum Institute as part of its 'British and American Notions of Liberty' pro...

Annelies is the first adaptation of the diary of Annelies 'Anne' Frank into a large-scale Choral work. It brings to life the diary written by Frank between 1942 and 1944 when she and her family lived...

An Epithalamion, Or Mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentine's Day is a work by Hugh Wood that sets the poem by John Donne. For Chorus and Orchestra, the w...

James Whitbourn 's Ada is a work for SATB Choir with Piano Accompaniment, commissioned by Lord Lytton to mark the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who is widely regarded as the fir...

Vocal score for this work which was commissioned by the BBC for performance during the 100th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. The first performance of this version was given n September 1995 a...