Chester Music

Edited by Eric Wetherell. As a big-band director you will be familiar with the names and music of Mike Gibbs, Dick Walter, Kenny Wheeler and Scott Stroman as composers and arrangers of some of the fin...

William Bell. Group music-making with a swing. Ten very easy pieces for classroom and orchestral instruments. They are all original and up-to-date in style, allowing large mixed ability groups to make...

Walk Softly is a light floating piece with a colourful 'modal' harmonic structure. The feel throughout is in a light, loose Latin style. Edited by Scott Stroman. Jazzamatazz is an exciting series of...

Verse 1' marks the beginning of a more ambitious and intense style of composition. The ideas are relatively simple and develop gradually in a cyclic fashion within a one movement, sectional design. Pr...

Geranos was commissioned by the Fires of London with funds made available by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was completed in September 1985 and lasts approximately 18 minutes. It is dedicated t...

Great for helping children learn the musical alphabet and various symbols while having fun. The plastic wallet contains more than 60 durable cards with musical signs, notes on treble and bass clefs, t...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Appealingly presented manuscript book with jumbo staves - ideal for young beginners. Space is given throughout for teacher's instructions.

Work for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet. Commissioned by the BBC for the 1955 Cheltenham Festival. Score available: CH00274

Work for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello. Score available: CH00455

Work for Solo Soprano and Tenor, Timpani, Gongs, Handbells and Strings. Commissioned by the St. David's Cathedral Bach Festival. These settings of sixteen Haiku by the Greek poet, George Seferis (1900...

Commissioned by the ECO.

Carol Barratt. Written specially for young musicians, this handy-sized reference book makes theory fun to learn! Contains all the musical terms, signs and information needed for Associated Board Grade...

Beyond Dark consists of one movement which is in three sections fast-slow-fast. Influences from the modern jazz harmony of Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea and also traditional Japanese instruments such...

The Last Sleep of the Virgin was written for string quartet and handbells in 1991. It enacts the story of the falling asleep and burial, by the Apostles, of the Mother of Jesus. This work was commissi...

Hymns Of Paradise, for bass solo, SA chorus and six violins. This work was commissioned by Ross Pople for performance by the London Festival Orchestsra. It was first performed on 27th May 1993 at St P...

Two dances for flute and harp from Peter Maxwell Davies' ballet Caroline Mathilde. A new instrumentation restores this linked pair of dances from Davies's second full-length ballet, Caroline Mathilde...

commissioned by the Swedish National Concert Institute.

Peter Maxwell Davies. A humorous version of the Orkney folk tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things go hilariously wrong, wit...

Score (Cello, Tenor, Soprano, Chamber Group, Hammond Accompaniment) Written in memory of innocent victims, this dramatic piece is ideally performed within a church. It uses texts form the Gospels, St...

The fifth feature film that Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman produced in 1991, Prosperos Book is a reworking of The Tempest. The score was written for the Michael Nyman Band and made into a suite for...

Gending is a Balinese word meaning simply 'instrumental composition', and this work takes as its starting point the colours, textures, rhythmic pattens and formal procedures of Balinese music. Gending...

Premiered by Yo Yo Ma. Quoting Tavener: It was while pondering these traditional dicta that I began to write the opening solo melody for the cello. It is in fact a palindrome because waking and dying...