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

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'.

This is the second of two volumes of songs from Opus 5 by Alexander Zemlinsky. For Medium voice and Piano Accompaniment.

Elgar was pre-eminently the composer of large forms. Complex lengthy development of musical ideas was for him a measure of genius. His songs with the exception of the orchestral cycle Sea Pictures were not often the vehicles for his most striking ideas. Paradoxically he was also bedevilled by a fine literally taste. He once told a friend that he felt it better to set the best second-rate poetry to music for the most immortal verse is music already. Some of his songs are therefore settings of poets now all but forgotten such as Arthur Salmon and Gilbert Parker: to their verse his music might make a vital addition. Elgar's songs offer authentic Edwardianreflections which we can value now in their own terms. These songs are full of echoes of a master's thoughts - and especially in the songs written for the stage - flashes of his genius.

It could be argued that Geoffrey Bush's most characteristic music is for voices: stage-works choral pieces and solo songs. With a natural affinity for a wide range of texts (from Chaucer to Stevie Smith via Jonson Wilde and Virginia Woolf) - his music always serves to embellish and illuminate the given word.

In addition to definitive editions of the printed music (with German and English singing translations) the book includes phonetic transcriptions of the Norwegian and German lyrics and word-for- word translations into German and English. The publication also includes a CD which contains: spoken lyrics recorded by native speakers to help singers with pronunciation; study versions of the songs with both melody and simplified accompaniments played on the piano; complete piano accompaniment recordings (pianist Denette Whitter). The book also includes a foreword by Monica Jangaard curator of the Grieg Museum at Troldhaugen.

150 Rounds For Singing is the perfect book for all teachers who enjoy sharing the joy of music with children. The book contains 150 varied pieces with melody Line and Lyrics and are intended for teachers to teach their students. Includes a selection of songs rhymes and traditional classics such as Row Row Row Your Boat Three Blind Mice Jubilate Deo and Are You Sleeping plus many many more to delight and entertain!