for soprano and piano. Par CASKEN JOHN. Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran’s New French Song project. It was as a result of having written one short song to words by Verlaine that I subsequently decided to set two further poems to make a group of three. All three were also set by Debussy: L’ombre des arbres and Chevaux de bois appear in Ariettes Oubliées, while Colloque sentimental belongs to Debussy’s second set of Fêtes Galantes. The poems I have grouped together are linked by the idea of three different landscapes. In the first, Verlaine precedes the words of his own sad, pale landscape with words from Cyrano de Bergerac about a nightingale who fears himself about to fall into a river and drown. In the second poem the landscape has been occupied by a fairground where men, women and children watch as the hobby-horses go round and round before night falls and the church tolls a passing-bell. The third poem takes us into an old park where two ghosts recall their past. The one wonders if the other remembers the happy days of their past lives, but the other doesn’t want to remember, barely acknowledging the closeness they once shared, seeing only that ‘hope has fled, defeated, towards the dark sky.’ I am very grateful to Roger Nichols and Dominique Mols for their advice with the setting of the French texts and with the translations. John Casken Colloque sentimental was first performed by Alison Smart and Katherine Durran at the Purcell Room in London on 13 July 2004/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano

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.

Description The Second Book Of Soprano Solos The songs in this collection represent various periods of music history as well as selected sacred solos. Compiled by Joan Frey Boytim. Songlist A Pastoral [Veracini, Francesco Maria] A Spring Morning [Carey, Henry] Art Is Calling For Me [Herbert, Victor] Bescheidebne Liebe [Wolf, Hugo] Das Verlassene Magdlein [Wolf, Hugo] Die Nacht [Strauss, Richard] Down In The Forest [Ronald, Landon] Fiocca La Neve [Cimara, Pietro] Hark! The Echoing Air [Purcell, Henry] Hear My Prayer, O Lord [Dvorak, Antonin] La Zingara [Donizetti, Gaetano] Les Cloches [Debussy, Claude] Love's Philosophy [Quilter, Roger] Mein Glaubiges Herze (My Heart Ever Faithful) [Bach, Johann Sebastian] My Heart Is Like A Singing Bird [Parry, Hubert] O Divine Redeemer [Gounod, Charles] Oh! Had I Jubal's Lyre [Handel, George Frideric] Shepherd! Thy Demeanour Vary [Brown, Thomas] Sleep, Gentle Cherub, Sleep Descend [Arne, Thomas] Song Of The Blackbird [Quilter, Roger] Take O Take Those Lips Away [Beach, Amy] The Sun Shall Be No More Thy Light [Greene, Maurice] The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze (The Mikado) [Sullivan, Arthur] These Are They Which Came [Gaul, Alfred Robert] To The Birds (A Des Oiseaux) [Hue, Georges] Un Moto Di Gioja [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Vergebliches Standchen Op.84 No.4 [Brahms, Johannes] Vieille Chanson [Bizet, Georges] Villanelle (I Saw The Swift Swallow Flying) [Dell'acqua, Eva]

Soprano/Piano-The world premiere was given by Jessica Rivera and Maryann Kim in Weill Recital Hall Carnegie Hall New York City on 13 March 2009. The text is taken from Psalms 63 and 56 and from The Gospel according to St. John.

?uvres pour soprano et piano. This volume in the series ?Les Éditions Originales Durand ? Salabert ? Eschig? contains Heitor Villa-Lobos? music for soprano and piano taken from the editions in Eschig catalogue. The original engravings are reproduced, giving musicians a valuable record of how these major works were first published, whether in the composer?s lifetime or posthumously.

Piano reduction-The origin of this concert aria which is a core piece in the singer?s repertoire is swathed in mystery. We still do not know where Beethoven found the text for the aria. The text for the recitative was taken from PietroMetastasio?s ?Achille in Sciro? but there it was not followed by an aria. It is also not clear why Beethoven only published the piece nine years after writing it. The Critical Commentary at the end of this single edition from HN970 gives detailed information on the source situation and all aspects of our edition of this dramatic masterpiece. Breitkopf & Härtel are publishing the performing material.

Commissioned by and written for Nicola Walker Smith in October 1992 this set of songs takes as its starting point material from The Upside-Down Violin at Expo ’92 in Seville by The Michael Nyman Band and the Orquestra Andalusi de Tetuoan. The Moroccan orchestra plays only monophonically and consequently I wrote a ‘pure’ melody line - that is one not built on harmony. The harmonic content of Anne de Lucy Songs is thus derived from the melody for the first time in my work. The text is an ode to the great Renaissance theorist and musical speculator Salinas by Fray Luis de Leon.

Sleep On takes pride of place on Hayley Westenra's album Hushabye (Decca cat no: 4810351) written by Paul Mealor and dedicated to the Royal Baby.This Vocal Score for Sleep On includes the Soprano Vocal line and Piano accompaniment.

Five delightful songs by Aaron Jay Kernis for Soprano and Piano accompaniment. All texts are taken from The Enlightened Heart an anthology of spiritual poetry from many countries and disciplines.