Chester Music

Classic music from the top-selling album 'Voices', including some of the world's finest vocal music as performed by Louis Armstrong, Russell Watson and Placido Domingo. Arranged for piano with separat...

Facing Goya, Nyman's first full-length opera, is written in four acts on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. Following it's first performance in 2000, it was revised in 2002 and again in 2014. In its origi...

All the songs in The Voice of Desire are conversations between humans and birds. In each case, the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint that their human hearers. One of the highlights is...

Partition vocale pour Adriana Mater, le deuxième opéra de la compositrice finlandaise Kaija Saariaho et du librettiste Amin Maalouf. Écrite en 2005, cette œuvre est la plus grande de Saariaho par sa t...

Cinq Reflets a été commandé par l'Orchestre philarmonique royal de Stockholm - Fondation du Stockholm Concert Hall et comprend des textes d'Amin Maalouf et de Jaufré Rudel. La première représentation...

Avec un livret écrit par Weir elle-même, basé sur la nouvelle surnaturelle cryptique Der Blonde Eckbert de Ludwig Tieck. Cette version de poche en un acte de l'opéra fait appel à un groupe de chambre...

Words adapted from an English folk song, and written for the NMC Songbook.

La partition vocale de The Hidden Place, une œuvre pour soprano solo et orchestre, écrite pour Diana Damrau. L'œuvre met en musique un recueil de poèmes qui dépeint les moments intimes partagés par de...

Miss Fortune, by British composer Judith Weir, is a contemporary re-telling of a Sicilian folk story. Tina's wealthy family lose all their possessions overnight and she is thrown into a life of povert...

Meet Me In The Green Glen is a cycle of five unaccompanied songs to poems by John Clare, composed by Brian Elias. The songs can be performed individually or as a set and by any voice. The total durati...

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for high voice with piano accompaniment in F. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for low voice with piano accompaniment in C. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries...

Judith Weir's Good Morning, Midnight was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and was first performed on 6th June 2015 at the Wigmore Hall in London. The work is arranged for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensembl...

Generations of Englishmen have been attracted to Greece, the land and its people. These are poems about various aspects of Greek life, but only two come from Greek writers. Seferis, under his birthnam...

John Tavener 's 1984 work A Mini Song-Cycle For Gina for Soprano and Piano was written for Gina Cowen, who gave the first performance along with Judith Ginsburg at St John's Church, Ladbroke Grove, Lo...

The Undying Splendour is a work by Iain Bell for Tenor Voice and Piano Accompaniment. The work was premiered in the UK at Wigmore Hall in London. The work sets three poems by First World War soldier J...

This work was commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of the New Generation Artists Scheme and was first performed at The Venue, Leeds College of Music, 20th Nov...

This song is from a projected musical film created by director/writer Margaret Constantas. On the Wentloog Levels near Cardiff, two artisan shoemakers, husband and wife, have fallen on hard times. The...

Aurora de Iain Bell est un concerto pour soprano colorature et orchestre, commandé par BBC Radio 3 et l'Orchestre philharmonique royal de Liverpool. Il a été créé aux BBC Proms en 2018 avec la soprano...

A short setting of Shakespeare's sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, for baritone and piano, first performed in Smithfield in July 2017.

25 popular works for soprano voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performance notes b...

24 popular works for tenor voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performance notes by...

25 popular works for baritone or bass voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performanc...