Chester Music

Bryce Dessner's Memorial for Electric Guitar, Viola and Percussion. Commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival and 92nd Street Y, premiered December 1, 2006 at NY Guitar Festival at the 92nd Street...

Commissioned by Freunde und Förderer der Musikalischen Akademie des Bayerischen Staatsorchesters. First performance 20 July 2015 at Haus der Kunst as part of the Munich Opera Festival 2015 with T...

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...

This is a gorgeous piece for piano and percussion in 3 movements. The percussion part calls for orchestra bells, vibraphone, maracas, woodblock, ratchet, guiro, and whip. Includes biographical note on...

Written for the International Contemporary Ensemble and for Tenor Peter Tantsits. The work was created through ICE's First Page Commissioning Program thanks to the lead support of Frances Kazan. The f...

This work for electric guitar and pre-recorded track is based on the transcription of a Jerry Garcia solo and inspired by Steve Reich.

With "Portbou", Chester Music presents an extraordinary and atmospheric solo work for classical guitar composed by Bryce Dessner, the celebrated guitarist of the indie rock band "The National" and ren...

Performance score for Tavener's 1992 work for soprano solo and cello, with text by Mother Thekla.

This piece provides a compositional challenge to find a balance between 2 wind instruments and piano, the general structure of the piece is evolved so that different balances between the 3 instruments...

Tavener's 1960 work for tenor solo, SATB chorus, brass ensemble and organ. Large (A3) score. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further informat...

Work for Soprano and String Quartet commissioned by the Nash Ensemble.

Three songs and scenes linked by instrumental transitions make up this exciting story about a robbery with a car chase! Scope for a large group of children to be involved. The copiable parts book cont...

The story concerns a space-struck child who sets out on a journey through time and space. Topical links with science, environment, language, movement and dance. The flexible orchestra of classroom ins...

Peter Maxwell Davies. Sent on a shopping errand by Mum and Dad, Pat encounters both wickedness and kindness. The events can inspire ideas for topic work including animals, families, shopping, witches...

Peter Maxwell Davies. Six lively songs for group and solo singing with photocopiable parts for percussion and recorders. Colourful tunes and lyrics explore different moods and musical ideas and stimul...

Butterflies' scored for Voice and Harp.

Composed in homage to William Glock, this single movement has something of the character of a slow fugue, on a theme deeply imbued with minor thirds. The woodwinds and strings are considered as pairs,...

So we'll go no more a-roving (Byron) A Widow bird sate mourning (Shelley) The knot there's no un-tying (Thomas Campbell)

A musical expression of the lament of a Queen for her dead husband, Aed mac Ainmirech, King of Tara, died AD 598. For handbells and soprano solo.

A work for countertenor, guitar and handbells in a Byzantine style. Score.

A Mediterranean, erotic postlude to a time when Davies had been much occupied with setting the Orkney poetry of George Mackay Brown. The voice, though, is the same. The mezzo part is wide-ranging and...