It could be argued that Geoffrey Bush's most characteristic music is for voices: stage-works choral pieces and solo songs. With a natural affinity for a wide range of texts (from Chaucer to Stevie Smith via Jonson Wilde and Virginia Woolf) - his music always serves to embellish and illuminate the given word.

Born into a family that had lived in Florence since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) entertained only a distant relationship with the music he heard at synagogue. It was only when he discovered Schelemo a rhapsody for cello and orchestra written in 1916 by Ernest Bloch that he began to understand what “Jewish music” could be. In the mid-1920s the young composer found a collection of prayers set to music among his maternal grandfather’s papers. Something clicked and from then on Jewish tradition would become a source of inspiration for Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In 1928 two years after publishing theDances of King David he wrote this Vocalise-Étude for medium voice and piano at the request of vocal teacher Amédée-Landély Hettich who wanted to include it in the Répertoire moderne de Vocalises-Études published by Leduc. The piece became so popular that several instrumental adaptations were soon created published under the title Chant hébraïque (for violin and piano: AL17 713; for cello and piano: AL 17196). Divided into three sections this wordless melody opens with a “sad and impassioned” chant that appears to grieve the tragic fate of the Jewish people. A folk dance follows in which a “lively and stubborn” movement has great panache. The third section returns to the initial poignant theme before briefly reiterating the dance motif allowing the piece to conclude on a hopeful note. The composer himself would adopt this proactive stance refusing to yield to resignation when fleeing Mussolini’s anti-Semitic laws he decided to emigrate in 1939 to the United States a land of refuge to which he would remain faithful until his death some thirty years later.

Song Cycle On Poems By Heine. The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation (?Im wunderschönen Monat Mai?) to solitary grief (?Und wüssten?s die Blumen, die kleinen?) and bitter sarcasm (?Die alten bösen Lieder?). Schumann knew what he was writing about: the cycle originated in the year of his marriage to Clara Wieck, an event that took place only after years of struggle. The tried-and-tested Henle Urtext edition by the Schumann specialist Kazuko Ozawa is now also available for singers with medium voice: in close collaboration with the experienced pianist and renowned Lied accompanist Gerold Huber, we have adapted the whole cycle, including the four songs of the appendix, for medium and low voices.

Sämtliche Lieder (mittlere/tiefe Singstimme und Klavier)-This is the first ever complete critical edition of Duparc's songs. Edited by Roger Nichols the elegantly presented music is supported by a fully comprehensive Critical Commentary which illuminates as never before the compositional stages of these beautiful songs. Roger Nichols' international reputation as a leading authority on French music makes this edition essential for all singers who perform study or teach these melodies. Contains: Chanson triste; Soupir; Romance de Mignon; Serenade; Le galop; Au pays ou se fait la guerre; L'invitation au voyage; La vague et la cloche; La fuite; Elegie; Extase; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Serenade florentine;Phyidyle; Lamento; Testament; La vie anterieure

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Le Liederkreis opus 39, publié pour la première fois en 1842, fait aujourd?hui encore partie des cycles de lieder les plus importants de Schumann, et pas seulement pour le célèbre «Mondnacht» («Nuit sous la lune»). Huit ans plus tard, Schumann révisa son ?uvre en vue d?une nouvelle édition, et remplaça la pièce liminaire de la première parution, «Der frohe Wandersmann» («Le Joyeux voyageur») par le lied «In der Fremde» («Loin du pays natal»). L?édition Urtext Henle propose les deux versions dans leur intégralité, et constitue une magnifique opportunité pour suivre les remaniements apportés par Schumann à la musique. Les deux éditions pour voix médiane et voix grave complètent la version originale pour voix aiguë (HN 550), dans une transposition ? comme toujours pour Schumann ? habilement agencée par Gerold Huber, pianiste accompagnateur de lieder très expérimenté. / Date parution : 2022-01-18/ Recueil / Voix Medium et Piano

Sonnet à une Lunatique (text M.de Saint-Gallais); Epître imprécatoire (text G.-C.Bucher); Sonnet à Madeleine repentie (text P.Le Moyne)

Par CANTELOUBE JOSEPH. Regrouped by Joseph Canteloube, this book is the third series from the set Chants D'Auvergne. This edition, written for Voice and Piano, contains lyrics in local dialect ; Occitan, with the French translation below. Some directives are given to obtain the correct pronunciation of the language. It features five songs: I. Lo Fiolaire (La fileuse) / The Spinner II. Passo pel prat (Viens par le pre) / Come through the field III. Lou Boussu (Le Bossu) / The huntchback IV. Brezairola (Berceuse) / Lullaby V. Malurous qu'o uno fenno - Bourree (Malheureux qui a une femme) /Unfortunate thus who has a wife Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957) was a French composer, musician and author, mainly known for his folk songs and for the series Chants D'Auvergne inspired by the area his family was from. / Niveau : Moyen / Répertoire / Chant

Par BOULANGER NADIA. Élève de Gabriel Fauré et Louis Verne au Conservatoire national, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) tient son aura d?une exceptionnelle carrière de pédagogue qui l?a conduite pendant près de 75 ans former les plus illustres musiciens, de Copland Glasssans oublier Bernstein ou Gardiner. Son ?uvre créatrice, longtemps jugée négligeable, sort depuis quelques années de l?oubli gr ce l?infatigable travail du Centre Nadia et Lili Boulanger, dirigé par Alexandra Laederich. C?est son instigation que se poursuit la publication des mélodies de Nadia Boulanger selon un ordre chronologique : après un premier recueil consacré aux ?uvres de jeunesse parues de son vivant chez l?éditeur Hamelle, le second volume, iciprésenté, rassemble exclusivement des inédits. Il recèle tout d?abord trois mélodies romantiques en allemand sur des poèmes de Heine un choix étonnant car la compositrice se sentait plutôt attirée par la poésie symboliste, comme en témoignent lesautres mélodies du recueil, écrites sur des vers de Paul Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck et Georges Delaquys trois auteurs qui faisaient partie du panthéon littéraire de Nadia et de sa s?ur Lili. On trouvera dans leur mise en musique des trésors definesse et de sensibilité. / Date parution : 2024-02-16/ Recueil / Voix Moyenne et Piano

Par JOLIVET ANDRE. Sonnet à une Lunatique (text M. de Saint-Gallais); Epî tre imprecatoire (text G. -C. Bucher); Sonnet à Madeleine repentie (text P. Le Moyne)/ Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano