Frank Bridge’s Three Songs for Medium Voice Viola and Piano is the second volume in a 30-volume series by The Frank Bridge Trust in association with Thames Publishing celebrating the works of Frank Bridge. This publication features the songs Far far from each other Where is it that our soul doth go? and Music when soft voices die and includes the score for Viola separately making the collaboration of the three musicians easier. The songs can be and often are performed together as a cycle but also work as short individual pieces. The first performance of the three songs in December 1908 marked a rareoccurrence as Frank Bridge played the Piano part himself. Far far from each other is the most ambitious of the three pieces for all three musicians. The words are excerpts from Matthew Arnold’s ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems Parting’.Where is it that our soul doth go? is the shortest of the three songs and the words are a translation of the last stanza of Heinrich Heine’s Clarisse translated by K. F. Kroeker.While the first two songs are original settings Bridge first wrote Music when soft voices die for High Voice Piano and Cello in 1903. The present version was transcribed in 1907. Music when soft voices die the short poem providing the words for this piece is one of the most influential and well-known of Shelley’s works.Watch Three Songs performed by Rebecca Ringle (Mezzo-Soprano) Luke Fleming (Viola) and Roger Steptoe (Piano):

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

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.

Robert Schumann's Songs Vol.3 comes complete with 82 Songs arranged for Medium voice with Piano accompaniment. Also includes 3 Byron Songs Op.94 with Harp Accompaniment

Six Poetic Songs-Donald Swann is best known as one half of the comic duo Flanders and Swann who dominated the West End and Broadway stages in the late 1950s and 1960s. Though less recognised he was also a leading exponent of the lyric song having reinterpreted the English art-song tradition exemplified by Parry Quilter Warlock and others in his own distinctive and exotic way. This second volume of his songs for Medium Voice and Piano features a range of styles and moods that fit with the diversity of the poems he has set and demonstrate his sensitivity to the setting of texts to music. These Practical Versions of Swann’s ever evolving songs are a wonderful insight into thecomposer’s ability and justify his place in the canon of English song.

Volume Viii - Songs 1928-1930-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the eighth volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1928-1930. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With fifteen songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendousacquisition for any enthusiasts of English song.

Volume Vii - Songs 1927-1928-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the seventh volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1927-1928. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With twelve songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendous acquisitionfor any enthusiasts of English song.

Set for medium range voices. J. Hamelle Paris edition-Sixty songs for medium voice and piano. Includes 'Aubade' 'Apres Un Reve' 'Au Bord de L'eau' 'Fleur Jetee' and 'Les Berceaux'.

Philip Heseltine was born in London in 1894. In his short life he won public acclaim for the songs he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Warlock. Undoubtedly he was the composer of some of the finest of all English solo songs remarkable for their intensity memorable tunes and harmonic individuality. This fantastic album features 14 of Warlock's settings of English poems and delightfully convey not only the meaning and rhythm of the words but something of the atmosphere and charm of the period. For Medium Voice and Piano Accompaniment.

Volume 2 - Songs 1918-1919-This society edition contains fifteen songs chronologically arranged and each with a detailed preface giving the relevant historical background to the composition. Warlock was very pedantic about original keys. He deplored transpositions but bowed to their necessity in performing editions. In this edition keys have been chosen to suit the medium voice. This generally means a range of about an octave and a fifth with nothing below B flat and nothing above F sharp/G flat.

Volume 3 - Songs 1920-1922-This society edition contains fourteen songs chronologically arranged and each with a detailed preface giving the relevant historical background to the composition. Warlock was very pedantic about original keys. He deplored transpositions but bowed to their necessity in performing editions. In this edition keys have been chosen to suit the medium voice. This generally means a range of about an octave and a fifth with nothing below B flat and nothing above F sharp/G flat.

John Ireland Three Songs set to words by Arthur Symons for medium voice and piano. English text.

Madeleine Dring's settings of seven songs from the plays and poems of Shakespeare written for medium voice with Piano.