SKU: AP.36-M283191

UPC: 660355174605. English.

"L'horizon chimerique," Op. 118 is a four movement song cycle for voice and piano. It is based on four poems from the collection of the same name by French poet Jean de La Ville de Mirmont. This piece premiered at the Societe Nationale de Musique in 1922 by Swiss born French baritone Charles Panzera, to whom the work was dedicated.

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SKU: AP.36-M181291

UPC: 660355185809. English.

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) wrote the first of his CINQ MÉLODIES POPULAIRES GRECQUES (Five Greek Folk Melodies) in 1904 at the urgent request of Pierre Aubry, who wished to illustrate a lecture he was giving on Greek folksong. Initially given five folksongs from which to choose, Ravel supplied a piano accompaniment for them in only thirty-six hours. Having impressed those who supplied the original five, three more were produced, which Ravel also quickly set to piano accompaniment, in a style imitative of the Mediterranean lands, but remaining distinctly French in its execution. The five melodies in this collection were selected from those eight. Ravel had started orchestrating all five as well, completing two, leaving Manuel Rosenthal to complete the remaining three. Songs in the collection: I. Le Réveil de la Mariée (Wake Up, My Dear), II. Là-bas, vers l'église (Out There, Where the Church Tower), III. Quel galant m'est comparable (Which Gallant Can Compare With Me?), IV. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques (Song of the Lentisk Gatherers), and V. Tout gai! (Be Gay!). The Ravel/Rosenthal orchestrations have been edited by Clinton Nieweg in an edition available from E.F. Kalmus.

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SKU: AP.36-M303491

UPC: 660355185960. English.

These three early (1891) songs by the great American composer, Amy Beach (1867-1944), are settings of texts by Robert Burns: 1. Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?, 2. Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon, and 3. My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose.

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SKU: AP.36-M316091

UPC: 660355086878. English.

These four early (1891) songs by the great American composer, Amy Beach (1867-1944), are settings of texts by Walter Learned (The Summer Wind), Jules de Rességuier (Le Secret), T. B. Aldrich (Sweetheart, Sigh No More), and E. R. Sill (The Thrush).

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SKU: AP.36-M282791

UPC: 660355191053. English.

Satie wrote Trois Mélodies, a lighthearted cycle of three songs, for the mezzo-soprano Jane Bathori, a star of the Parisian opera world. They were first performed by Bathori and pianist Ricardo Viñes at the "Ravel-Satie Festival" in Paris on April 18, 1916. Song titles: 1. La statue de bronze, 2. Dapheneo, 3. Le chapelier.

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SKU: HL.14030819

ISBN 9780853609094. 9.0x12.0x0.227 inches.

An album containing fifteen superb songs by Armstrong Gibbs, one of the greatest of English song-writers. Singers will welcome this anthology, which celebrates the mastery of Gibbs' word-setting, with texts by de la Mare, Masefield and others.

SKU: BT.PMC3865

The Two Songs on American Poems were composed in late May and early June of 2011 by candlelight at my rustic waterfront cabin on a remote island off the northwest coast of Washington State. It was in this locale that I havecompleted a number of works over the years, including the Lux Aeterna, O Magnum Mysterium, Nocturnes, Canticle/O Vos Omnes and others. Prayer was written in memory of Michael Jasper Gioia, Dana and Mary Gioia's infant son, whosebrief life was tragically ended by SIDS.Mr. Gioia served as Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003-2010 and has authored several books of poems, numerous anthologies, articles, essays and two opera libretti. Amonghis many awards are the American Book Award and Presidential Citizens Medal. He currently holds the Judge Widney Chair of Poetry and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Sure on this Shining Night was originallycomposed as a choral piece, the third movement of my Nocturnes on poems by Rilke, Neruda and Agee. Rod Gilfry, an international star of opera, recital and musical theater, premiered the mixed duet version with his daughter, Carin,in 2009. He is Professor of Vocal Studies at the USC Thornton School of Music. Both he and Mr. Gioia are national treasures. The Two Songs are designed as a pair but may be sung independently - when paired, Sure On This ShiningNight should begin immediatelyfollowing the final, sustained chord of Prayer with no break in between the songs. Both of these songs, premiered by Mr. Gilfry accompanied by the composer at a USC Visions & Voices tribute to DanaGioia on September 27, 2011, have their roots in the American musical theater and should be sung as such.