for Tenor Alto Three Female Voices and Piano-Janácek?s intimate chamber-music drama about the passionate love of a simple farm boy for a beautiful gypsy girl is one of his great vocal masterpieces.This cycle of 22 songs for tenor (an alto and three female voices are added in three numbers) was composed on a setting of poems that were published anonymously. It was not until 80 years later that their author was identified as the regional poet and writer Ozef Kalda.The cycle also contains theatrical elements such as the alto entrance and exit cues and lighting effects. Composed in 1917-19 the ?Diary? was premièred in Brno in 1921 from a manuscript prepared by Gustav Homola.The same manuscriptserved as a basis for the first edition which was issued by the Brno publisher Oldrich Pazd rek in 1921 as well as for this current first Urtext edition.First Urtext edition with a detailed Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editorSinging translations in German (by Max Brod) and English (by Bernard Keefe)Numbers IX to XI which include the alto and three female voices also available online

40 melodie progressive-L'Arte Del Cantare features 40 progressive melodies for Soprano or Tenor voice featuring Piano Accompaniments in the scores. This collection has been revised and corrected by F.S. Collina.

Great singers whose compositions also won the respect of their contemporaries: Rossini's favorite tenor, Manuel Garci; his daughter, Maria Malibran, the most brilliant diva of her age; and the younger daughter, Pauline Viardot, famous opera singer and voice teacher. All three used profound knowledge of music and of bel canto to create songs in French, Spanish, and Italian.

Originally for Piano and String Quartet and later provided with piano accompaniment by the composer. Newly edited with an introduction by Michael Pilkington. ContentsFar in a Western Brookland (D flat - G flat)The Lent Lily (E - A)Ludlow Fair (E - G)On the idle hill of summer (F - A)'Tis time I think (F - G flat)When I was one and twenty (E - G)When smoke stood up from Ludlow (D - G sharp)Recorded by Adrian Thompson on Hyperion CDA663852Set for the Associated Board FRSM examination.

Two secular song for high voice and Piano by Francis Poulenc based upon the melodies of the French cafe culture by Guillaume Appollinaire.