SKU: FP.FMJ02

ISBN 9790570503896.

A wonderfully balanced and yet contrasting set of songs for baritone voice and piano, inspired by Sir John Manduell’s long-standing love of French renaissance verse.

In the first, perhaps the most often quoted of Ronsard's poems, the poet invites young Mignonne to come and look at the purple rose and to realise that her beauty like the rose's will fade all too soon. Du Bellary's poem is redolent of late summer heat and haze as the thresher of the title calmly pursues his work. The Marot is a brief exercise in courteous mockery as the poet chides his ailing lady upon her gastronomic self-indulgence and warns her of the inevitable consequences upon her figure.

Finally published in 2013, Trois Chansons is one of the of the composer’s earliest surviving works, written while he was studying with the late Sir Lennox Berkely as a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. The first performance was given by Beverley Humphreys at the Royal Academy of Music in 1956.

SKU: HL.14035582

ISBN 9788759855485.

Originally for Baritone voice and orchestra, this version features a piano reduction of the orchetral score.

SKU: BT.ALAC021200

SKU: HL.14042601

ISBN 9788759827574.

Notturno for Baritone and Piano. Composed in 1966 by Antonio Bibalo.

Text: Li-Po translated by Vitter Dynner from the text of Kian Lang-hu.

SKU: BT.ALHE20935

French.

'Le Vin, c'est Dieu, c'est Dieu le Père'

SKU: HL.50512551