(100 Songs Excerpted for Successful Auditions). Edited by Michael Dansicker. For baritone voice solo, bass voice solo and piano accompaniment. Vocal Collection. Broadway, Movies and Pop. Difficulty: medium. Songbook. Vocal melody, lyrics, piano accompaniment, chord names and introductory text. 172 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Baritone voice & Piano

SKU: ST.Y272

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Vocal music. Five songs to poems by Anne Stevenson. Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y272. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y272).

ISBN 9790220222849.

1. Arrival Dream
2. Snow Squalls
3. It Happens
4. East Wind
5. A Clearer Memory

The contrasting aspects of nature are a major theme in the work of Rhian Samuel, and in her song cycle Spring Diary for baritone and piano she responds passionately to its vernal magic.

Beginning in dream and ending in memory, the five movements of the collection are a dramatic response to the turning season in Wales, conveyed through the fine detail of its characteristic weather and landscape as observed by the poet Anne Stevenson.

Premiered at London's City University, Spring Diary is excellent material for graduate singers and pianists, who will draw inspiration from its vivid and assured word-setting and substantial and evocative keyboard part.

Baritone Voice and Piano - Intermediate

SKU: FP.FMJ02

Composed by John Manduell. Sheet Music and Books. Songs for baritone voice and piano, inspired by Sir John Manduell’s long-standing love of French renaissance verse. Classical. Vocal Score. Forsyths Publications #FMJ02. Published by Forsyths Publications (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.