001 · ORATORIO · SOLO VOICES, CHORUS & ORCHESTRA

Job

Peter Maxwell Davies

An oratorio

Call number — locally assigned

M2000 .D38 J63
Locally assigned LC-style call number; not verified against an LC catalog record for this copy.

Text

From Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Book of Job, selected by David Lemon.

Publisher

Chester Music

Score format

Spiral-bound perusal score

Instrumentation

Cataloged from photographs of the cover and scoring page. Entry added 15 October 2026.

002 · SONG CYCLE · SOPRANO & ORCHESTRA

Chantefleurs et Chantefables

Witold Lutosławski

Song cycle for soprano and orchestra

Call number — adapted from LC record

M1613 .L92 C4
Adapted from Library of Congress record 98705325 for the PWM 1996 edition. LC composer and work codes retained; edition year omitted for this Chester Music copy.

Poems

Robert Desnos, from the collection Chantefables et Chantefleurs

Publisher

Chester Music Limited

Duration

Approximately 16 minutes

Score format

Spiral-bound full score

Edition

Incorporating small corrections and revisions, April 1991 and March 1992; copyright 1991.

Instrumentation

Contents

1. La Belle-de-Nuit — p. 1
2. La Sauterelle — p. 5
3. La Véronique — p. 19
4. L’Églantine, l’Aubépine et la Glycine — p. 27
5. La Tortue — p. 37
6. La Rose — p. 45
7. L’Alligator — p. 51
8. L’Angélique — p. 59
9. Le Papillon — p. 67

First performance

8 August 1991, BBC Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, with soprano Solveig Kringlebotn.

Cataloged from photographs of the title, contents, and instrumentation pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

003 · VOCAL & ORCHESTRAL · BASS-BARITONE & SMALL ORCHESTRA

A Talisman

Brian Elias

For bass-baritone and small orchestra

Call number — locally assigned, provisional

M2103 .E45 T35
Provisional locally assigned LC-style call number. Sacred-vocal classification awaits confirmation; not an LC-assigned number.

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

Approximately 16½ minutes

Score format

Spiral-bound full score; score in C

Commission

Cheltenham International Festival of Music

Instrumentation

Score notation

Score in C. Piccolo sounds one octave higher than written; double bass sounds one octave lower. Natural string harmonics sound at written pitch, including those for double bass; harp harmonics sound one octave higher than written.

First performance

Cheltenham Festival, 18 July (year not stated on the photographed page). Paul Putnins, bass-baritone; National Youth Orchestra Sinfonietta; Geoffrey Patterson, conductor.

Cataloged from photographs of the title and instrumentation pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

004 · ORCHESTRAL ANTHOLOGY · ISSUE 1

Оркестровые произведения советских композиторов

Various composers

Orchestra Compositions by Soviet Composers — for Symphony Orchestra

Call number — locally assigned, provisional

M1000 .O75 1975 vyp.1
Provisional assignment under LC orchestral collections. Exact LC record not verified; classification awaits contents review.

Transliterated title

Orkestrovye proizvedeniia sovetskikh kompozitorov

Issue

Выпуск первый — First instalment (Issue 1)

Score format

Full score (партитура); bound volume

Publisher

Советский композитор — Sovetskii kompozitor (Soviet Composer)

Publication

Moscow, 1975

Copyright

© Издательство «Советский композитор», 1975

Contents & instrumentation

For symphony orchestra. Individual composers, works, and detailed instrumentation are awaiting photographs of the contents and scoring pages; no instrument counts or doublings have been inferred.

Cataloged from photographs of the cover, publisher imprint, and copyright page. Contents and detailed instrumentation pending. Entry added 15 October 2026.

005 · CHAMBER ORCHESTRA · 1992

Corrente

Magnus Lindberg

Per orchestra da camera — for chamber orchestra

Call number — locally assigned

M1045 .L56 C67
Locally assigned using LC classification for chamber orchestra music. No matching LC score record located in the title/composer search; the LC score record for Corrente II concerns a different work.

Year of work

1992

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

14 minutes (publisher listing)

Commission

Svenska Litteratursällskapet (Swedish Literary Society in Finland)

Score format

Spiral-bound full score; transposing score (“The score is not written in C.”)

Instrumentation

Scoring transcribed from the photographed instrumentation page. Duration and player complement checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

006 · CHORAL WORK · TREBLE VOICES & INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE

startled Grass

Simon Holt

Part five of “a ribbon of time”

Call number — locally assigned

M1543.5 .H65 S73
Locally assigned under LC classification for secular treble chorus with instrumental ensemble. No matching record located in the LC composer/title search.

Text

Emily Dickinson: “Presentiment — is that long Shadow — on the Lawn —” (c. 1863); English

Year of work

2001 (publisher’s work record)

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

Approximately 11 minutes

Commission

BBC

Score format

Full score

Instrumentation

Pitch names use scientific pitch notation (middle C = C4). Pitches transcribed from the close-up scoring photograph; the crotale’s two-octave transposition is stated separately.

First performance

29 November 2001, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. BBC Singers with Ulrich Heinen, cello; conducted by Stephen Cleobury (as printed in this score).

Cataloged from photographs of the title and scoring pages; composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

007 · SACRED CHORAL MUSIC · MOTET

All the Ends of the Earth

Judith Weir

A choral motet for divided mixed chorus, harp and percussion, drawing on Pérotin’s Viderunt omnes.

Year of composition

1999

Genre

Motet · sacred choral work

Publisher

Chester Music

Score format

Spiral-bound perusal score

Duration

Approximately 10 minutes, according to the photographed score; the publisher’s work listing gives 12 minutes.

Call number — locally assigned

M2021 .W45 A45

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M2021 (sacred mixed chorus with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching printed-score record was located in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026; recording records were found. This is not a verified LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Written for the EBU Millennium Day broadcast, this motet places Pérotin’s medieval cantus firmus in the tenor and bass voices, retaining its pitches, proportions and text. Weir surrounds it with newly composed upper voices setting the tenth-century Alleluyatic Sequence, based on Psalm 148. Harp and percussion illuminate and punctuate the vocal writing.

Instrumentation

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers. First performed on 28 September 1999 at Westminster Cathedral, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, as part of Sounding the Millennium. Dedicated to Nicholas Kenyon.

Cataloged from the supplied title and introductory pages; supplemented by the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

008 · VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC · PIANO/VOCAL SCORE

TreeStone

Stephen Albert

For soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble; this copy contains the piano/vocal reduction.

Genre

Song cycle · vocal chamber music

Text

James Joyce, from Finnegans Wake · English

Publisher

G. Schirmer, Inc.; distributed by Hal Leonard

Copy held

Piano/vocal score, as identified on the cover. The ensemble instrumentation below describes the original work.

Duration

Approximately 38 minutes, according to the supplied score.

Call number — from verified LC record

M1529 .A53 T74 1993

LC source & edition status

Library of Congress record 97702438: G. Schirmer / Hal Leonard piano/vocal score, [1993], 78 pages, ISBN 9780793529155. This is an actual LC-assigned call number for that edition. The photographed cover matches the publisher and format; the publication year, ISBN and pagination of this particular copy remain to be checked.

About the work

A vocal cycle for two soloists and chamber ensemble, setting James Joyce’s language from Finnegans Wake in a musical response to the Tristan legend.

Instrumentation of the original work

Contents

I am leafy speafing · A grand funferall · Seabirds · Tristopher Tristian · Fallen griefs · Anna Livia Plurabelle.

First performance

16 January 1985, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City: Lucy Shelton, soprano; David Gordon, tenor; Music Today Ensemble, conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and instrumentation page, supplemented by the linked LC record. Entry added 15 October 2026.