Lennox Berkeley's I Carry Your Heart With Me for medium Voice and Piano.'Sometime in 1970 I gave Lennox Berkeley a volume of poems by the American poet E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) since mysister Meriel Dickinson and I were commissioning him towrite a song-cycle for a whole programme of settings of Cummings. At the time he became involved with Chinese poetry and we were delighted with the Chinese Songs Op. 78.However a year or so later in July 1972 Berkeley did set a poem by Cummings. This was ‘i carry your heart with me’ from 95 Poems (1958) and he dedicated the song to the countertenorTay Cheng Jim.The manuscript leavesfew questions. Obviously the pedal sustains the sextuplet and triplet groups at the start and finish. It is possible that all the As in bar 32 of the left hand piano part should be flat although there are clashes like thiselsewhere. A few phrase-marks have been added on existing patterns.' - Peter Dickinson

Volume 5 - Songs 1923-1924-The critically and editorially authoritative editions of the songs of Peter Warlock. This fifth collection spans the years of 1923 and 1924 containing eleven groups of songs for voice and Piano by Warlock including Candlelight a cycle of nursary rhymes. Edited and introduced by Fred Tomlinson.

A student of Gabriel Fauré and Louis Verne at the Paris Conservatoire Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) owes her aura to an exceptional teaching career spanning nearly 75 years during which she trained the most illustrious musicians from Copland to Glass not to forget Bernstein or Gardiner. In the past few years her creative work long considered negligible has finally been escaping from oblivion thanks to the untiring work of the Centre Nadia et Lili Boulanger directed by Alexandra Laederich. It is at her instigation that the publication of Nadia Boulanger's songs has continued in chronological order: after a first collection (HA 9725)devoted to the youthful works brought out during her lifetime by the publisher Hamelle the second volume presented here exclusively features unpublished works. First of all it contains three Romantic mélodies in German on poems by Heine – a surprising choice given that the composer felt more attracted by Symbolist poetry. This is attested to by the other songs in the collection on verses by Paul Verlaine Maurice Maeterlinck and Georges Delaquys three poets who were part of the literary pantheon of Nadia and her sister Lili. One will discover treasures of refinement and sensitivity in their musical settings.

Ce volume 3B des Plaisirs du chant est, comme les précédents, destiné aux jeunes chanteurs, ainsi qu'aux cours de formation musicale. Les morceaux sont présentés dans une tessiture moyenne. Dans un but pédagogique, les morceaux choisis sont pour la plupart écrits dans un mouvement assez lent, et donc, plus difficiles à lier et à animer. Des petits chefs-d'oeuvre comme Die Lotosblume, Das Verlassene Mägdelein, Romance, Lungi da te, Canciôn de Cuna , demandent de la part de l'interprète une grande sensibilité musicale et des nuances subtiles. Leur exécution exige une grande attention. Pour les trois premiers numéros, précisons que jusqu'à la fin du 18e siècle, les ornements et variations n'étaient pas écrits, mais laissés à l'imagination des chanteurs (ces embellissements pouvaient changer d'un concert à l'autre). Nous avons un peu perdu ce sens de l'improvisation mais les étudiants pourront s'inspirer des ornements et variations très simples proposés dans le CD par les deux chanteurs. Pour La Rondinella de Charles Gounod, nous avons choisi le texte italien, paru à Londres en 1865, plutôt que le texte français L'Ame d'un ange sur un poème de Th. de Banville. Toutes les pièces de ce recueil peuvent être chantées par des voix féminines ou masculines (sauf Das Verlassene Mädgdelein de Wolf qui se prête davantage à une voix de soprano). L'air de Fortunio peut être chanté par toutes les voix pour le travail, mais dans une situation d'examen, il est plus adapté à une voix masculine. Autrement, les textes musicaux et poétiques conviennent à toutes les voix, même la berceuse de Montsalvage. Pour le CD, j'ai demandé la collaboration d'une soprano et d'un ténor dans le seul but de varier les couleurs à l'écoute du disque. Les deux artistes ont chanté avec une grande économie de moyens pour que l'écoute du CD n'incite pas les jeunes chanteurs à forcer. L'accompagnement enregistré du piano seul aidera à la mise en place du morceau avant le travail avec l'accompagnateur. Pour la préparation à l'étude d'un morceau, on pourra s'inspirer des exercices ciblés et classés qui se trouvent dans le livre Le Professeur de chant : un luthier qui construit une voix (référence: VV375 ) paru aux Editions Van de Velde. L' expérience prouve que tous ces morceaux sont travaillés avec un grand plaisir par les étudiants et sont source de progrès. Jacqueline Bonnardot Contenu : Debussy C.: Romance - Du Buisson: Plainte sur la mort de Monsieur Lambert - Gounod C.: Aubade - La Rondinella - Messager A.: Fortunio - Montsalvatge X.: Cancion de cuna para dormir a un negrito - Paisiello G.: Nel cor più non mi sento (La Molinara) - Purcell H.: Strike The Viol - Sarti G.: Lungi da te ben mio - Schumann R.: Die Lotosblume - Wolf H.: Das Verlassene Mägdlein Compositeur/Auteur : BONNARDOT Jacqueline Discipline/Instrument : voix moyenne et piano Collection : Bonnardot Jacqueline Support : Partition + CD Style/Genre : classique Date de parution : août-08 Nombre de pages : 34

L'édition fait partie du programme ABRSM (grades 4-6). / Voix Moyenne(s) Et Piano

Ce groupe de chansons définie sur 14 écrivains est un mémorial pour compagnon de longue date du compositeur. Dans les mots du compositeur: ' le thème général souligne la nostalgie et perte, mais aussi frustration et la colère et enfin renouvellement, quoique renouvellement par le biais de mépris de la mort. ' / Voix Moyenne(s) Et Piano

The words for Panis Angelicus form an extract taken from St Thomas Aquinas’s hymn Sacris solemniis and frequently treated as a separate hymn. Of the many settings César Franck’s from 1872 is the best known.He included it in his Messe á Trois Voix for Tenor Harp Cello and Organ some years after that piece was written. Of all the works by Franck the Panis Angelicus with its serene meditative Vocal line and restrainedaccompaniment is the best known and certainly the most frequently recorded in all Voices and in many arrangements.

Having been considered as a 'fashionable' and 'cliché' composer of his day Hahn's compositions are possibly not as well-known as they ought to be. If My Verses Had Wings! for Voice & Piano however is one of many compositions that shatter these prejudices held representing the engaging diversity of the composer's music. Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) entered the Paris Conservatoire at 10 years old. He received a high standard of musical education from Decombes Lavignac Dubois and Massenet before becoming a prolific and versatile composer himself writing works for all genres. For Hahn music was amagical art and his compositions often contain expressions of his otherwise hidden emotions and moods. If My Verses Had Wings! is based on the poetry of Victor Hugo. Moreover this edition of Hahn's If My Verses Had Wings! contrains transcriptions in three different keys making it versatile to a range of voices. Hahn's If My Verses Had Wings! contains a variety of different features making for a pleasant and evocative work for singers and pianists.

20 Melodies Voix Moyenne Et Piano-As Proust liked to remind us Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) had a clear voice that was really appreciated in Paris at the time: he believed Hahn’s mouth was a genius music instrument that was letting the most beautiful sad yet warm voice out when he was singing. Following the first volume written in 1986 Melodies Volume 2 comprises twenty exciting songs for Voice with Piano Accompaniment composed by Reynaldo Hahn. These twenty melodies are: Quand la nuit n'est pas étoilée – Cantique - La Délaissée - La chère blessure – Théone - Le souvenir d'voir Cante-Quand je fus pris au pavillon - Chanson au bord de la fontaine - Sur l'eau – Fumée - Le printemps - Dans la nuit - Les fontaines - A Chloris - Le rossignol des lilas - A nos morts ignorés - Ma jeunesse - Le plus beau présent - Puisque j'ai mis ma lèvre - La douce paix

54 Lieder Content : BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER: Childhood among the Ferns - Before and after Summer - The Self-unseeing - Overlooking the River - Channel Firing - In the Mind's Eye - The Too Short Time - Epeisodia - Amabel - He Abjures Love EARTH AND AIR AND RAIN: Summer Schemes - When I set out for Lyonnesse - Waiting for Both - The Phantom - So I have fared - Rollicum-Rorum - To Lizbie - The Clock of the Years - In a Churchyard - Proud Songsters I SAID TO LOVE: I need not go - At Middle-Field Gate in February - Two Lips - In five-score - Summers - For Life I had never cared greatly - I said to Love LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death - Who is Sylvia? - Fear no more the heat o' the sun - O Mistress Mine - It was a lover and his lass LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth) - Riddle Song - False Colcolinel OH FAIR TO SEE: I say I'll seek her - Oh fair to see - As I lay in the early sun - Only the wanderer - To Joy - Harvest - Since we loved TILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth - In years defaced - The Market-Girl - I look into my glass - It never looks like summer - At a lunar Eclipse - Life Laughs Onward TO A POET: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence - On Parent Knees - Intrada - The Birthnight - June on Castle Hill - Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia

Medium Voice and Piano-Medium Voice and Piano. This collection of 5 art songs comes from Ancient Greek poetry. The music was written by William Bolcom and the poems were translated into English by Arnold Weinstein. Songs: On a Statue of a Runner · Unlucky Eutichus · An Encaustic Painting · Timomarchus's Picture of Medea in Rome · Praxiteles' Aphrodite.

Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire. Création à Créteil, paroisse saint-Christophe par le Choeur Polyvoce sous la direction de Véronique Genissel, le 21 novembre 2015. Durée : 15 minutes environ. / Choeur Mixte

This is part of a wonderful collection of Faure's songs available in three editions for High Medium and Low Voice with Piano accompaniment. This edition is for Medium Voice and contains all 30 songs in the original Frenchtext.