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: ST.Y230
ISBN 9790220221736.
Commissioned with Arts Council of Wales funds by the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, for the centenary celebrations of Samuel Beckett's birth, The Flowing Sand is a setting of five poems by this seminal 20th-century modernist that are unified as a song-cycle by meaningful contrasts of mood and of musical style. The movements are 'what would I do', 'my way is in the sand', 'Da Tagte Es', 'Roundelay' and 'saying it again'. Artistically challenging, yet well within the technical range of enterprising conservatoire students, The Flowing Sand is a major addition to the repertoire of contemporary art-song by British composers, and a significant contribution to the celebrations of the writer's anniversary year.
SKU: BA.BA11091
ISBN 9790006565252. 29.8 x 21 cm inches. Language: German. Text: Schlegel, Friedrich.
With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital. Abendröte is a cycle that brooks comparison with the songs Schubert wrote on the same set of Schlegel poems: Trojahn has composed the poems Schubert chose not to set.
SKU: BA.BA11042
ISBN 9790006543212. 29.8 x 21 cm inches. Language: German. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital. Sie ist nicht mehr da is a moving operatic scena that interweaves poems by Goethe and Martin Walser and places them in a free dramatic setting.
SKU: C4.9790-902250535
ISBN 9790902250535. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.
Woodside's setting of American satirical poet and author Dorothy Parker peers into her world and thoughts and perfectly captures both. Her acid wit and raw truth is mirrored in the sometimes brusque, sometimes reflective writing.
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