Chester Music

For Piano and String Quartet. Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by the London Arts Board.

For Piano and String Quartet. Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by the London Arts Board.

These three very short pieces each duet lasts just over one minute were written in the summer of 2017. The tempi are fast/slow/fast and both instruments have equal roles.

Elegy for viola and cello was written in April 1970 for Peter Mark and Geoffrey Rutlowski while the composer was guest professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Duration 8 minutes.

Seven Epigrams for Violin and Cello by Haflidi Hallgrimsson.

A Farewell by Simon Holt for Violin and Cello.

Telaranas' (the Spanish for cobwebs) is a duo for Violin and Cello written for and dedicated to Jakob Kullberg and Jack Liebeck. Much of the music is taken from other parts of a cycle of string piece...

To see the summer sky for Violin and Viola falls into four movements. The first movement opens with the two instruments sounding almost as one playing very high, glassy harmonics. Gradually, an expres...

Aure is a work by Kaija Saariaho for Violin and Viola, originally composed as an homage to Henri Dutilleux's 95th birthday. Aure was first performed on 19th August 2011, as part of the festival 'Les I...

Piccola Musica is written for string trio and consists of five short movements, independent of each other, apart from the 'tie-up' between numbers I and V. The texture is in the main contrapuntal, tho...

Premiered by Frederick Ginke, Watson Forbes and James Phillips in the Wigmore Hall in August 1944. Score available: CH00259

An eight minute ensemble composition for Violin, Viola and Cello, premiered in january 2001 by Marcia Crayford at the St. Columbus Church in London. The piece is based on a Greek byzantine hymn and fe...

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including t...

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including t...

Cloud Trio was commissioned by the Bastad Kammermusikfestival (artistic Director Karin Dornbusch), Musik i Syd, the festival Music Around and Arcana Festival für Neue Musik. It was first performed at...

Helen Grime 's Aviary Sketches is a composition for String Trio. This is the full score and parts for this wonderful work which lasts around 13 minutes. Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the suppor...

Reflections was written for Nordic Affect. The first performance was given on 30 September 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Arranged for Violin, Viola and Cello. Duration: 8 minutes. Anna Thorvaldsdottir f...

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Spectra for Violin, Viola and Cello. Duration: 9 minutes