This work When Christ Was Born of Mary Free sets the words of a traditional carol dating from the 15th century sensitively in D minor for the verse moving to a more joyous F for the Chorus. Darke’s papers list this piece as having been scored for Soprano solo Chorus SATB and Piano. Harold E Darke was an English composer and Organist of international renown. Darke composed extensively for choir and Organ. In 1916 he established the Monday lunchtime Organ recitals at St Michael’s Cornhill which continue to this day the longest-running such series in the world. His setting of Christina Rosetti’s poem In the Bleak Midwinter created a melody and lilting Organ accompanimentthat has never fallen from favour. It is regarded as one of the greatest of Christmas carols.

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès's Op. 1 is a romantic, fanciful, finely wrought response to colourful 'minor poems' of T.S. Eliot, with ingenuities unobtrusively tucked away into the composition. At the close of 'New Hampshire' the piano sings in counterpoint 'Do you want the stars to play with, the moon to run away with?' 'Rannoch' explores chromatic-scale descents as inventively as Verdi explored an 'enigmatic scale' in his Ave Maria. They underpin, without jeopardizing, his spontaneous response to Eliot's lines. 'Cape Ann', bearing an 'Hommage à Messiaen' dedication, rings with the birdsongs evoked in the poem. / Répertoire / Soprano et Piano

Les Cinq Elégies sont un cycle de mélodies écrites en 1999 alors que j'avais dix-sept ans, suite à une déception amoureuse, sur des textes extraits du recueil de poèmes ' Alcools ' de Guillaume Apollinaire, paru en 1913, Le genre élégiaque des poèmes choisis, est aussi appliqué à la musique : Deux mélodies en vocalises, très nostalgiques, ouvrent et ferment le cycle, qui n'utilise que trois poèmes, Le langage musical, en recherche, s'inscrit dans une continuité Française de la couleur harmonique, I - Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent (03'00'')II - Les Colchiques (03'00'')III - Automne (01'30'')IV - Le pont Mirabeau (02'50'')V - Le fleuve est pareil à ma peine Il s'écoule et ne tarit pas (04'30'') / Soprano

This aria is Lysia's cabaletta from Adamo's recent opera Lysistrata. For Soprano and Piano.

Elizabeth Maconchy's Four Shakespeare Songs written for Soprano and Piano with text taken from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Measure for measure and Othello. Duration: 6minutes

Operatic Arias - Vol. 4-Volume 4 for soprano contains the second half of the large-scale arias and ariettas that Rameau composed for lyric soprano (the 18th-century equivalent of today?s lyric coloratura soprano) in his prologues and divertissements. Each number is accompanied by a keyboard reduction and is introduced by a brief account of the dramatic situation as well as an English translation of the vocal text.- Detailed historical Introductions (Fr/Eng)- Practical keyboard reductions based on Opera Omnia Rameau- Each number is preceded by a brief outline of the dramatic situation and an English translation of the vocal text- Co-edited by the Centre de musique baroquede Versailles and the Société Jean-Philippe Rameau (distributed exclusively by Bärenreiter)

The most comprehensive collection of Broadway selections ever organized specifically for the singer. Each of the five volumes in the series contains important songs chosen because they are appropriate fpr each voice. All selections are in their authentic, original form, and taken from the original vocal score. The songs in The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology, written by such noted composers as Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Kern, are vocal masterpieces ideal for the auditioning, practicing or performing vocalists.

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan produced several of the most popular operas and operettas of all time. Sullivan's music was always memorable and tuneful while Gilbert's libretti had both wit and pathos. This book contains several Gilbert and Sullivan selections for the Soprano including 'So Ends My Dream' and 'The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze' and comes with online audio of the Piano accompaniments in the book.

This series was designed to supplement traditional vocal instruction and works perfectly as preparatory literature for The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos Part II.Each piece is in Englishand has a limited vocal range as well as a piano accompaniment that is playable by a student pianist. The pieces include art songs folksongs humorous songs and suitable vintage popular songs and are all appropriate for contestsolos. The accompanying CD includes professionally-recorded accompaniments. Soprano Contents: Alice Blue Gown · April Showers · Butterflies (Schulz) · Cradle Song (Brahms) · Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel(Humperdinck) · The False Prophet (Scott) · Florian's Song (Godard) · Golden Slumbers (English folksong) · It Was a Lover and His Lass (Austin) · Ladybird (Schumann) · The Lilac Tree (Gartlin) · The Little Sandman (arr. Brahms) ·My Little Heart (Weckerlin) · The Nightingale (Alabieff) · Oh! Dear What Can the Matter Be? (16th Century) · Oh Pretty Birds (Rigel) · The Rosebush (Himmel) · The Sweetest Flower that Blows (Hawley) · Two Marionettes (Cooke) ·The Willow Song (16th Century) · The Willow Tree (arr. Reimann) · The Winter It Is Past (arr. Hopekirk).

Par CHAMOUARD PHILIPPE. Philippe Chamouard?s music sheds new light on Michelangelo?s three magnificent poems (Dimmi di grazia, Gli occhi, A l?alta tuo) which deal with a universal theme, that of love linked to beauty. / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano

Elizabeth Maconchy's The Sun Moon and Stars consists of four settings of poems by Thomas Traherne for Soprano And Piano. Commissioned by Jane Manning and Richard Rodney Bennett.

Soprano and Piano. In this extremely emotional aria from Corigliano's popular opera the ghost of Marie Antoinette relives the unbearable memory that forever haunts her: the final moments of agony and torture before herexecution at the guillotine.

Soprano and Piano. Cycle of 6 songs. Simple Daylight was commissioned by Lincoln Center and dedicated to its first singer Dawn Upshaw. The music is set to poems in Michael Fried's To the Center of the Earth creating a song cyclethat requires a motet-like partnership between singer and pianist. Recorded on Elektra Nonesuch.