Chester Music

Work for Piano and Orchestra, premiered by the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra.

Work for Piano and Orchestra commissioned for the Spitafields Festival 1997.

Kaija Saariaho's Maan Varjot was jointly commissioned by Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Orchestre National de Lyon, Southbank Centre and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto For Trumpet, Percussion, Turntables And Orchestra. This work was commissioned by Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn 2014. Duration: approx. 20 minutes.

Study score for Concerto No. 5 Op. 31 for Viola And Orchestra (1943) by Vagn Holmboe.

Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) was a 20th century composer in the neo-classical style, widely recognised as the most important Danish composer since Nielsen. He is best known for his symphonic works, solo c...

A work for solo violin and orchestra, commissioned by Donald McDonald for the 21st birthday of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the 60th birthday of the composer. It was first performed in November...

Work for Violin and Orchestra commissioned by the BBC and VARA Radio 4 (Netherlands).

witness to a snow miracle is a violin concerto in seven short movements, based around the life of Saint Eulalia, the virgin martyr. The movements are presented as if part of a painting in which we see...

witness to a snow miracle is a violin concerto in seven short movements, based around the life of Saint Eulalia, the virgin martyr. The movements are presented as if part of a painting in which we see...

Hugh Wood's Violin Concerto No. 2 Op. 50 was commissioned by the Milton Keynes City Orchestra. First performed on 23rd January 2009 at Milton Keynes Theatre by Alexandra Wood (Violin) and Milton Keyne...

This work was commissioned by the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig. First performance on 22nd August 2009, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, given by Daniel Hope (violin) and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conducted...

Premiered by Tamsin Little at the Leeds Music Festival, 1989.

A Wedding Bouquet was the idea of Lord Berners, who wanted Frederick Ashton to make a ballet pantomime out of one of Gertrude Stein's plays and who both wrote the music and designed the 'decor' and co...

When composer Francis Poulenc visited some cousins in 1940, he sketched out this musical background for Jean de Brunhoff's classic story about Babar the Elephant. Poulenc returned to the score in 1945...

Henze's Fünf Botschafen Für Die Königin Von Saba was commissioned by Radio France. It received its première on 3rd February 2005 at the Thé tre Des Champs-Élysées, Paris by the Orchestre National de F...

Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze's penultimate opera, and this item...