Chester Music

Written for STB choir.

This was composed in 1979 and is scored for SATTB and Organ. This work is a setting of a sixteenth-century poem which is a plea for death to come and bring an end to suffering, thereby affording peace...

Composed in 1980

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...

A setting of the Evening Canticles for SATB Choir and Organ. Commissioned by the Southern Cathedrals Festival.

For Tenor Soloist, SATB Chorus, Organ and String Orchestra. Commissioned by the English Opera Group for the 5th Aldeburgh Festival. Premiered by Peter Pears. Please note that other than the chorus par...

For SSATBB Chorus. This work was included as No. 5 of A Garland for the Queen, to mark the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

For SSATB Choir. Commissioned for the celebration of the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the birth of Saint Benedict. Premiere by Westminster Cathedral Choir under the direction of Stephen Cleobury.

John Taverner's Western Wind Mass is one of three extant Early Tudor masses bearing that title, the others being by Christopher Tye and John Shepherd. They are so named because their canutus firmus de...

Burgon composed this in 1983.

Commissioned for the the Service of 9 Lessons and Carols by Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King's College Cambridge. This short four-stanza carol follows an ABBA structure.

In this choral nocturne, the composer has taken verses by three different poets which she felt to be linked very closely in the feeling as well as in subject. The phrase ''Will you come?'' links the f...

A short song for SATBB voices. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

Elizabeth Maconchy's Prayer Before Birth for SSAA a cappella, with words by Louis MacNiece.

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...

This work for soprano solo and SATB chorus was commissioned by the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music. Tavener:'In the Orthodox Church, the Lament of the Mother of God is normally sung on H...

Edition Wulstan

A choral song atributed to composer William Cornysh, arranged by David Wulustan for mixed chorus and Piano.

A folk song based on Polish words by Julian Tuwim for SSA and piano. Handy as a short item to include in a Junior/Middle school concert.

A fun choral work for 3 equal voices with piano accompaniment about the famous Tralislaw Tralalinski and his singing family, pets and neighbours.

Three songs for SSA and piano based on Polish words about seasons and weather. Would make a useful short item to include in a Junior/Middle school concert.

There are seven songs and an instrumental interlude, making all together an entertainment that provides opportunity for very simple stage action and dancing: nothing at all elaborate is needed in the...

A short work for unaccompanied SSSAA choir with music by John Tavener and words by W. B. Yeats. Includes piano accompaniment for rehearsal purpose only.