Chester Music

Little Ceremonial was commissioned by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, generously supported by Janet Holmes à Court AC, and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. It was first performed on 26th Marc...

Everyone Sang was composed by Scottish composer Helen Grime in 2010. It was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the 75th anniversary of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed at City...

Virga is precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before it reaches the ground. It can produce rather dramatic and beautiful scenes, especially during a sunset. Helen Grime's Virga was om...

Howard Blake's The Snowman - Schools Version. Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe (or 2nd Flute), 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bassoon, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, Trombone/Tuba, Descant/Tenor Recorder, Treble Re...

Howard Blake's The Snowman - Schools Version. Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe (or 2nd Flute), 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bassoon, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, Trombone/Tuba, Descant/TenorRecorder, Treble Rec...

Orchestral Score. Instrumentation. > 3 Flutes (3=Piccolo) > 2 Oboes > 2 Clarinets in B - > 2 Bassoons (2=Contrabassoon) > 4 Horns in F > 2 Trumpets in C > 2 Trombones > Tuba > Timpani (1 set) > Perc...

Commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen for the Universe of Sound project. First perfromed at the Royal Festival Hall on 8th July 2012, by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Phil...

Hans Werner Henze's Ouverture zu einem Theater was commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, with funding from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. The world premiere took place on 20 October 2012 at...

Commissioned by: Nederlands Dans Theater, Den Haag Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MUSIC - CENTER / Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County The Norwegi...

Ellsworth 2 has been composed by Simon Holt from music that that was written in an earlier piece, Troubled Light, it is said he took inspiration from the painting Painting for a white wall. Within t...

Symphony No. 5 by Michael Nyman. Premiered on 2 May 2013 in Auditorio Miguel Delibes, Valladolid by Orquesta de Castilla y Leon, conducted by Jaime Martin. The symphony is one of nineteen Nyman has pl...

Second Rhapsody For Orchestra by E. J. Moeran. Orchestral parts are available on hire from the publisher.

Nebelheim Und Sonnenland is a fourteen-minute continuous suite for Orchestra of material from Hans Werner Henze's last operatic work, 'Gisela!' (2010). This piece was arranged by distinguished conduct...

Symphony No. 2 began its life as Pozcatek, a 'Michael Nyman Band' 'soundtrack' that was written for the Michael Nyman Band to accompany a selection of sequences from post-war Polish filmsthatNyman sel...

Ciel D'Hiver by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, scored for the Orchestra. The ten minute piece Ciel D'Hiver is an arrangement of the second movement of Kaija Saariaho's 2002 Orchestral piece Orio...

Bryce Dessner's St. Carolyn By The Sea. Full score for two Electric Guitars and Orchestra. This piece was co-commissioned by the AmericanComposers Orchestra with the support of LVMH Moët Hennessy Loui...

This is the study score for Simon Holt 's An Icicle Of Moon, a work for Orchestra. The piece was commissioned by Bamberger Symphoniker and its first performance was on 31st October 2014 at the Joseph-...

Composer's Note: Quilting, co-commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is my first stand alone work for orchestra and is loosely inspired by the American tradition...

Immerse yourself in the monumental sonic world of John Luther Adams' orchestral masterpiece, 'Become Ocean'. Awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Music, this captivating composition unfolds a ma...

With his monumental Symphony No. 9, Philip Glass created a masterly orchestral work of hypnotic depth, rhythmic brilliance, and overwhelming sonic power. Standing as one of the most impressive milesto...

First performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 1965 by Peter Pears with the Philharmonia of London conducted by the composer. Duration c. 16 mins.

Work for Orchestra premiered by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1984.

Work for Orchestra.

An innovative devotional work for full orchestra accompanied by tape cassette (which runs for the duration of the piece). The music is based on the plagal of the fourth Byzantine tone. Large (A3) scor...