A Windy Winter In Provence for Soprano or Tenor and Piano with optional interludes for Violin and Guitar (available separately) This composition can be performed also as a Voice/Piano song cycle without the interludes written for Violin and Guitar. The duration of this version is about twelve minutes.This was first performed on 31st July 2007 as part of the Joroinen Music Days Festival in Finland by Topi Lehtpuu 9Tenor) Heini Karkkainen (Piano) Jan Soderblom (Violin) and Ismo Eskelinen (Guitar).

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 Edwardian reflections 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. / Chant Et Piano

Handel's spectacular Oratorio was composed in 1744 from a libretto by Charles Jennens that describes the fall of Babylon. Although less successful in it's day than the popular Italian opera, this work is full of invention and dramatic skill with the Jewish, Babylonian Persian and Medes masses having their own distinctive musics that were juxtaposed to create a tense dramatic conflict. Composed in the same year as the magnificent Hercules the two Oratorios represent the very best of Handel's dramatic writing. This title is the full vocal score with a Piano reduction of the orchestral material. Edited by Donald Burrows. / Chant Et Piano

Arrangeur: Desmond Ratcliffe. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. One of the finest works of all Vivaldi's choral settings, arranged for the upper voices by Desmond Ratcliffe. Uplifting and melodic, the intoxicating tunes and spellbinding optimism of Gloria have helped it to become one of the most popular works in the Baroque choral repertoire. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Rép Classique / Répertoire / Chant et Piano