Chester Music

A fifteen-minute song cycle for soprano and piano, which was first performed on 8 September 2007 at the European Music Festival, Stuttgart by Diana Damrau (soprano) and Matthias Lademann (piano). Both...

A Hymn to God the Father. A Hymn to Christ. The sun rising.

Work for Soprano and Piano. First performed by Jane Manning and John McCabe In 1981.

For Soprano and Piano. Text: Lord Byron. Commissioned by Trinity College, Cambridge for Lord Byron's Bicentenary. Premiered by Lorna Anderson and Malcolm Martineau.

Song-cycle for High Voice and Piano to poems by Edwin Muir.

Five Songs for High Voice and Piano. Premiered at the Canterbury Festival by Lorna Anderson and Malcolm Martineau, September 1987.

Version for Voice and Piano. For rehearsal purposes only. Text: translated by Christopher Logue in the English version. Premiered by Morag Noble and members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Set to the text of Pierre de Ronsard, this set of songs for Two Tenors and Piano was commissioned by Peter Pears in 1952.

In memory of W. B. Yeats I (W. H. Auden) In memory of W. B. Yeats II (W. H. Auden) It's no go (Louis MacNeice)

Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth on 3rd March, 1878, and spent most of his childhood in London. His holidays, however, were spent with relatives in Swindon, and it was there that he developed his abi...

Four Songs for High Voice and Piano.

Commissioned by and written for Nicola Walker Smith in October 1992, this set of songs takes as its starting point material from The Upside-Down Violin at Expo '92 in Seville by The Michael Nyman Band...

Nocturne is an unusual cyle of four songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, punctuated with five characterful instrumental interludes. The songs are settings of texts by W. H. Auden, Stephen Sp...