Beethoven's song cycle To The Distant Beloved for Voice and Piano. Edited for this authoritative Henle Verlag Urtext edition by Helga Luhning from the original version for High Vocie and Piano. Includes full text andtranslations in German English and French.

This is a collection of 45 of Handel's Arias across 3 volumes. This is the third volume and is arranged for High Voice and Piano as selected and edited by Sergius Kagen.

This is a collection of 45 of Handel's Arias across 3 volumes. This is the second volume and is arranged for High Voice and Piano as selected and edited by Sergius Kagen.

Instrumentation : High voice - Pf (Fr.) Those interested in French music have often had reason to be grateful to Roger Nichols; his writings on Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen and Poulenc are indispensable to the music lover. Nichols now turns his attentions to the mélodie, where it is his mission to encourage singers to explore beyond the well-trodden paths of French song. In these two anthologies he does not ignore masterpieces by composers of the stature of Fauré and Duparc, but sets them alongside music - almost impossible to find elsewhere in print - by such under-estimated figures as Reber, Viardot, Massé and Paladilhe. Even the more celebrated songs are often not easily found in practical editions, which makes this selection an ideal starting point for wider exploration. In each of these volumes the songs appear in the chronological order of their composer's birth, but Nichols somehow contrives a line-up of music which seems delightfully arbitrary at the same time as carefully designed to enrich everyone's understanding of the mélodie. The books also contain a remarkable amount of scholarship, lightly worn and pithily expressed. As well as complete translations of the songs, there is a useful and concise introduction on singing in French, together with an illuminating historical note and critical commentary; and Nichols gives full due to the poets who were of crucial importance in the development of the mélodie tradition. Graham Johnson Content : Niedermeyer:Le Lac (Meditation poétique);Berlioz:Absence;Gounod:Ô ma belle rebelle;Viardot: Fleur desséchée; Franck: S'il est un charmant gazon; Massé: Consolation;Lalo: Ballade à la lune; Saint-Saëns: La sérénité;Delibes: Chanson espagnole; Bizet: Pastorale; Massenet: Nuit d'Espagne; Chabrier: L'île heureuse; Paladilhe: Sérénité de la nuit; Fauré: Lydia; Fauré: Après un rêve; Duparc: Extase; Chausson: Le colibri; Debussy: Mandoline; Debussy: C'est l'extase langoureuse; Satie: Daphénéo; Satie: Spleen; Séverac: Ma poupée chérie; Dupont: Chanson des noisettes; Poulenc: La Grenouillère Editor :Nichols

These Schumann songs set to poems by Heinrich Heine are a deeply psychological and disturbing journey as they reflect more often than not the bitterness of unrequited love. The most cheerful songs begin asdeceptively happy experiences which ultimately turn sour as they eventually reveal themselves as somewhat despairing looks at love. Written for High Voice and Piano.

American composer Celius Dougherty (1902-1986) created lovely arrangements of favourite folksongs and sea chanties. With many selections never before published these editions offer exciting multicultural literature forvoice students and teachers.

A substantial edition of art song literature edited by Laura Ward and Richard Walters. Historical notes are included for each song and a line by line English translation for study.

This is a collection of the most famous songs of Fauré. Diction lessons were recorded by coach conductor and diction specialist Pierre Vallet. The diction for each song is recorded twice: first recited as an actor would speak it showing flow of the language and mood followed by a slow deliberate lesson allowing time for the student to repeat each line. This experienced language coach adapts the ?R? in French in the slow versions as recommended for classical singers. He is also very sensitive to liaisons between word sounds in musical settings.

The plantation songs known as 'spirituals' are the spontaneous outbursts of intense religious fervour and had their origin chiefly in camp meetings revivals and other religious exercises.They were never 'composed' but sprang into life ready made from the white heat of religious fervour during some protracted meeting in camp or church as the simple ecstatic utterance of wholly untutored minds and are practically the only music in America which meets the scientific definition of Folk Song.Harry Burleigh became a linguist singing in Hebrew as well as Latin Italian French and German. For several years he regarded his casual efforts at composition as merely mentalexercises until friends virtually forced him to publish. 'Deep River' published in 1917 made Harry Burleigh well known as a composer. His 'Little Mother Of Mine' was sung throughout the world by John McMormack.

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 cycleoriginated in the year of his marriage to Clara Wieck an event that took place only after years of struggle. Originally the sixteen-piece cycle was meant to include twenty lieder. Our volume reproduces the four discarded numbersin an appendix.

Thirty-four songs from 17 composers complete with historical information. A useful sourcebook for student singers. Edited by Steven Stolen and Richard Walters.

Cette remarquable série ouvre des perspectives passionnantes du répertoire stimulante et enrichissante pour le chanteur sagace et aventureux. Comme pour les volumes de compagnon Peters de français Operatic Arias, cette série russe présente bon nombre des airs célèbres à juste titre, mais aussi leur juxtapose avec autres gemmes moins familiers, dont undoutedly méritent une reconnaissance plus large. Une grande partie du répertoire sélectionné est parfaitement adaptee aux fins de l'audition, afin que chaque volume est un Trésor pour les chanteurs professionnels et des étudiants. Sheet Music and CD Play-long Pack / Voix Haute Et Piano