Mittelschwere Noten von Chester Music

This was written for Barbara Bonney who had told Previn that she might be related to Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney). Previn discovered a collection of memories of Billy the Kid by women who had lov...

An opera written in 2006. Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone was commissioned jointly by the Vienna Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Barbican London and Lincoln Center New York. It was first...

Kaija Saariaho's Emilie Suite was a joint commission by Carnegie Hall, New York City, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. It was first per...

Written for voice and piano.

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

This work was commissioned by the Cheshire County Council for the 900th anniversary of Chester Cathedral, for performance at the Chester Summer Music festival 1992. The opening melody on the solo cell...

Palestrina is one of the towering figures of late Renaissance church music whose polyphonic compositions remain actively performed in the Choral repertoire. He composed more than 250 motets. This one,...

Motet for Five Voices (SATBB) for Lent and Passiontide. English alternative provided.

Edited by Collins.

Motet for five voices (SSATB) for the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord.

Memento Creatoris, an anthem for SATB choir was comissioned by the BBC Transcription Service for the Aldeburgh Festival in 1967.

Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin for five voices. Edited by Anthony G. Petti.

This work was commissioned by the Chester Summer Music Festival for Stephen Wilkinson and the BBC Northern Singers. The first performance was given as part of a concert at Chester Town Hall on 23 July...

These settings were written to a commission from the Southern Cathedrals Festival and first performed in Salisbury Cathedral on 24 July 1976 by choirs of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedral...

Tenebrae Responsory for Good Friday. Edited by Bruno Turner.

A divine allegory, pondering on the mystery of the incarnation as described by St. Ephrem the Syrian. For mixed chorus, semichorus (TB), handbell and organ.

Commissioned by the International Organ Festival Nürnberg Musica Sacra to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. If this glorious, full-blooded, passionate oratorio doesn't pierce, wound and ravish even...

A setting of a poem by Andrew Motion for Upper Voices A Cappella. The work was first performed in November 2002.

Atma Mass was commissioned by Liverpool Cathedral for the Centenary of the Laying of the Foundation Stone. First performance on 18th July 2004 at the Centenary Eucharist, by the choir of Liverpool Cat...

A work written for double choir set to words from the Latin prayer Salve Regina and a German poem Stella Matutina.

Peter Maxwell Davies sets Barbara Newman's translation of a text by Hildegard von Bingen, for SATB chorus and Organ. The work was commissioned by Epsom College to celebrate the one hudred and fiftieth...

Written for SATB choir and organ. Commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and first performed on Saturday 6 May 2006 by the Festival Chorus and Academy of Ancient Music conducted by John Apli...