Singing Score Urtext edition-In spring 1827 Schubert performed the first part of his best-known song cycle ?Winterreise? for his friends for the first time. At this time he assumed that he had set all the texts belonging to the cycle to music. Only later did he come across the complete cycle of 24 songs in Müller?s volume ?Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten? of 1824. As a result he set the twelve further poems as a separate group partly paraphrasing the songs in the first part and partly continuing them.The appendices also contain four songs ?Wasserflut? ?Rast? ?Mut? and ?Der Leiermann? in Schubert?s original keys before they were transposed downa tone by him or his publisher Haslinger .- Famous song cycle taken from the practical Complete Edition of Schubert Lieder Volume 3- Foreword by Walther Dürr discussing the history of the work?s composition and sources (Ger/Eng)- With an English translation of the song texts by Richard Wigmore

of the 17th & 18th Centuries-Most Voice teachers and singers still prefer the pianistic wonderfully gratifying arrangements of this early Italian material made by Alessandro Parisotti in the 1880s. This new edition newly researched and engraved includesthe original Schirmer 24 plus four additional songs: Sento nel core (A. Scarlatti) O leggiadri occhi belli (Anonymous) Intorno all'idol mio (Cesti) Delizie contente che l'alma beate(Cavalli). With IPA word for word translations and historical information on each song and composer. A version with accompaniment CDs is also available: HL50485631.

Songs from the Exotic were commissioned by Josephine Nendick who gave the first performance with Michael Finnissy on 7th October 1987 in Cambridge. These four songs were inspired by folk traditions of Serbia Spain andScotland. In each case the text comes from a folksong source but the music is entirely invented. The duration is approximately 10 minutes.

Ian Venables’ setting of four poems of A.E. Housman originally scored for tenor solo string quartet and piano here arranged for tenor and piano. Lyrical pieces of intermediate difficulty sometimes elegiac sometimes angry. Written in 2004 but very much in the English song tradition of Finzi Gurney and Warlock these are therefore ideal recital companions to those composers.