Chester Music

A Harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed. The instrument was widely used in Renaissance and Baroque music. Duri...

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...

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...

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...

Instrumentation: 2 Flutes (Flute 2 doubling Piccolo), 2 Oboes (Oboe 2 doubling English Horn), 2 Bassoons, 2 B-flat Soprano Clarinets, 3 Trumpets (Trumpet 1 + 2 in C, Trumpet 3 in Bb), 4 Horns in F, 2...

Written for solo harpsichord. The composer writes: In 1989, I composed Jardin des herbes, a set of three pieces for solo harpsichord. My intention was to evoke the colour and delicate aromatic qualiti...

Into the faded air was commissioned by Britten Sinfonia for first performance at Filharmonic Hall, Krakow, Poland on Sunday 13th January 2008, with Jacqueline Shave (Violin), Miranda Dale (Violin), Cl...

Year composed: 2016

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Shades Of Silence was composed in 2012 and is arranged for violin, viola, violoncello and harpsichord. Written for Nordic Affect. The first performance was given on 2 February 2...

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Impressions for prepared harpsichord. Written for Guðrun Óskarsdottir. The first performance was given on 30 January 2016 at Harpa Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland. Duratio...

A short work for soprano, baritone, vibraphone and piano setting the librettist Tamsin Collison's text about online dating.

A work for Clarinet and String Quartet commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts. First performed by Rozenn Le Trionnaire (clarinet) and the Albion Quartet on 24th August 2019 at S...

For Harpsichord solo.

Work for two Sopranos, Alto and Band composed in 1990.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Arranged for organ. Duration 10 minutes. Commissioned by Symphony Hall Birmingham 2001.

Chapple's Praeludiana is an extended 'celebration' of Chopin's well-known prelude in C minor. First, a fast, flashing sequence of chords moves from manual to manual: next a Stravinskyan barrage of bra...

These variations are based on some of the musical material which Geoffrey Burgon composed for the Granada Television adaption of Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited. '

On 23 June 2013 Peter Maxwell Davies's Capstone, for organ, received its world premiere performance at the City of London Festival. Commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral, Capstone was performed at the C...

Mandēlion was commissioned for the 1982 Dublin International Organ Festival by RHM Foods. It was first performed on the 27th June 1982 by Pete Sweeney, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The piece...

This essentially contemplative work in four movements is based on a plainsong fragment from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, traditionally sung on Maundy Thursday in the ceremonies spiralling down to the...