Koester/schmidmusic

The traditional choral scores of this work present many problems for both singers and director. This edition addresses and resolves each of these problems. As well as incorporating many corrections, t...

This edition uses the same clear layout as the editor's acclaimed score of Mahler's 2nd symphony. The main points can be summarised as follows: a) The score includes the soloist, the boys' choir and t...

A chamber opera with a libretto by Alexander McCall Smith. Set in the Botswana Okavango Delta, it tells a story of the struggle for power among competing baboons in their matriarchal society - thus dr...

Words by Frances Button Music by Philip Lane A new Christmas song for unison voices (with an optional 2nd part) with piano or orchestra accompaniment. It tells the story of Gobbledegook, a turkey with...

An intriguing short work composed for the International Schools Choral Music Society to 'nonsense' words by Douglas Macari. It is scored for tenor or baritone soloist, mixed voice choir (SATB) and orc...

In 1886 Parry was commissioned by Charles Villiers Stanford to compose a piece for the Bach Choir of London, of which Parry was a member. Stanford, one of the first British musicians to recognise Parr...

Wizard! is a 45 minute cantata originally written in 1980 for year-six juniors in a school in the East End of London, at which I taught for many happy years. The words were written by Katherine Hayes,...