Chester Music

First performed in 1970 by Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom the work is dedicated, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Downes.

This reconstruction of the Concerto in D, K. 315f was first performed on 15th August 1985 at the Dartington Hall Summer School of Music, by Ernst Kovacic (Violin) and Bernard Roberts (Piano), with the...

A two-minute string quartet by the Master of the Queen's music commissioned by The Royal Society of Musicians and first performed by the Shanghai String Quartet at Wigmore Hall, London, on 1st Februar...

A movement from Bryce Dessner's Impermanence suite as a stand-alone string quartet. There is a complexity and virtuosity in the writing by Bryce Dessner with constantly shifting patterns that create l...

Ellen Reid's "West Coast Sky Forever" for string quartet was commissioned by the Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK project for Kronos Quartet. The quartet's recording featured on Ellen's latest album, Big Majestic...

Work commissioned by the 1973 Cheltenham Music Festival and premiered by The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Work for String Orchestra.

Written for solo cello and strings. This work was commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was first performed on 24th November 199...

This work was written in 1980 and first performed on 2 March 1980 by the Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio and TV with Elzbieta Chojnacka (harpsichord), conducted by Stanislaw. The Polish composer He...

A new edition of one of Berkeley's most frequently performed works, in this the composer's centenary year. This work is a classic in the repertoire of British Music for this medium. The first movement...

Solo part for Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra.

This work was commissioned jointly by the Hampstead and Highgate Festival and the Presteigne Festival. First performance on 9th May 2007 as part of the Hampstead and Highgate Festival, at St John-at-H...

Written based on a poem of the same title by Octavio Paz, A Boy and a Girl is Whitacre at his finest, with the composer himself describing four measures as 'the truest nots I've ever written'. Stretc...

Solo Viola part for Rolf Wallin's Under City Skin for viola, string orchestra and surround sound.

Five sonnets for high, bel canto tenor and string orchestra, settings words by Richard Barnfield on the epiphanies, anxieties and obsessions of queer love.

Capriccio for Bassoon and Strings was commissioned by Music at Malling. The first performance was given on 24 September 2021 in St. Mary's Church, West Malling, Kent, by Adam MacKenzie (bassoon) and C...

This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cu...

The two violin duets entitled Danse des Flocons were first written by the composer for her daughter Aliisa, who at the time was seven years old and an aspiring violinist. The titular flocons (flakes)...

Partition d'étude. Œuvre de quinze minutes pour orchestre à cordes. Parties disponibles à la location. Le titre Terra Memoria fait référence à deux mots riches en associations : terre et mémoire.

Pour soprano solo, chœur SATB et orchestre à cordes. Écrit en 2024. Durée : environ 19 minutes. With What Sudden Joy a été commandé par le Southwell Music Festival pour célébrer son dixième anniversai...