Chester Music

A singing/musicianship resource to involve the whole class. Comprehensive tips and advice on teaching and singing the song. No music reading necessary - full support provided on the CD. Lesson plan...

This is effectively a work in three movements - Allegro, Andante cantabile and Presto - which Davies likens to 'three obstacle courses, bristling with technical difficulties'. However, as he goes on t...

Jean Baptiste Arban was amongst the first of the great soloists of the then newly invented cornet, and his post as first soloist in the Paris Opera Orchestra gave great respectability to the instrumen...

A book simply packed with sight-reading practice material for the Violin, grade 1. 118 graded exercises are provided, along with a step-by-step guide to the basic elements of playing by sight, includi...

Playing With Scales is a new resource, designed to help motivate and encourage young musicians to practice their scales. Playing With Scales presents imaginative backing tracks in a variety of styles...

Carol Barratt and Karl Jenkins. The catchy Christmas number arranged for SAB by Lynn Freeman Olsen.

Ex Maria Virgine was commissioned by Timothy Brown and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, with the generous support of Paul Lee. The first performance was given on 12th December 2008 in the Chape...

My Guardian Angel is a carol, which celebrates the increased incidence of public appearances by angels at Christmas time. It is a setting of short text by William Blake. The music of the carol is base...

Helen Grime wrote this Christmas carol for the Hallé Youth Choir to sing at the close of 2013. The words are from an anonymous medieval cradle song. Grime said of the piece: 'I haven't written much ch...

A collection of popular Christmas ensembles especially arranged for Key Stage 2 players - perfect for all Christmas concerts! Includes flexible instrumental parts ideal for players of wide ranging abi...

A great series of piano solos which offers players the opportunity to try out a number of less conventional styles, using carefully selected musical favourites. Each volume contains pieces which areau...

The CD edition of The Easy Piano Collection: Joplin Gold features a fine selection of the most famous masterpieces by Scott Joplin. Every piece has been composed for or arranged for easy Piano and all...

Now including two CDs with full performances of every piece, this fine selection contains the essential music of Scott Joplin. The album features some of the most famous rag masterpieces for solo pian...

Saariaho 'Couleurs Du Vent' arranged for solo alto flute. Commissioned by the Finnish National Opera. Duration 16 minutes.

A new typeset edition of John Tavener's work for solo alto flute written in 1988. This work was written for the flautist Ileana Ruhemann and is headed by a quotation from Seferis, Greece's great secon...

These four ostinatos, composed by Michael Nyman (entitled Bird List Song, Drawing II: days 4 and 5, Mouth to Mouth and Melody Lists) amount to over 20 minutes of music.

For Solo Bass Clarinet Eos commissioned Nyman to write a score for the 10-minute silent film Manhatta, a Jazz Age piece lacing together images of inter-way Manhattan with the (projected) words of Walt...

Djembe Drums for everyone is a ground-breaking resource that supports both specialists and non-specialists in the delivery of dynamic and authentic whole-class djembe lessons. This comprehensive guide...

Klavierauszug. Inklusive Partitur und Stimme.

This piece was commissioned in 1991 by Graham Ashton for his album 'The Contemporary Trumpet'. Quoting Graham Ashton: Michael Nyman wrote Flugel and Piano for me during a period when I felt his approa...

Rolf Wallin's Realismos Mágicos for solo Marimba. This work was co-commissioned by the Bergen International Festival, Sound Festival, Scotland and the Wigmore Hall, London, with support from André Hof...