Selected and edited by Richard Walters these wonderful yuletide arrangements are specially designed to be suitable for the progressing Alto or Bass voice.Christmas is an exciting time for the student singer presenting lots of opportunities for performance as the seasonal celebrations gather momentum. These songs are familiar melodious and relatively accessible adding an extra dimension to the standard repertoire. Each song has been carefully devised to remain comfortably in a middle to lower-middle tessitura ideal for the inexperienced singer.The accompaniments are suitable for the intermediate pianist but retain a fresh and contemporary flavour. A CD isalso included offering both professional performances that illustrate model interpretations and an accompaniment track for practice.

Contains 14 folk favourites: Bill Grogan's Goat The Cruel War Is Raging How Can I Keep from Singing I Gave My Love a Cherry (The Riddle Song) Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier Nine Hundred Miles Shenandoah The Streets of Laredo When Johnny Comes Marching Home and more. Includes two CDs with full performances and accompaniment tracks notes on each piece by the arranger and performer biographies. Great for recitals!

Music Minus One Low Voice-These low-voice Lieder from Robert Schumann are classics they demonstrate the composer's mastery of the form and of the melodic line. Great music in this lovely nineteenth-century idiom. Includes a high-quality printed vocal score and a compact disc with stereo accompaniments to each piece. Accompaniment: John Wustman piano

Piano Vocal Score and CD with instrumental and vocal versions. Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. Cantolopera is an exceptional series of book/CD packs from Ricordi that offers a fresh approach to great opera repertoire. The books include versions for voice and piano of the worlds most famous arias. The CDs feature two versions of each aria: onewith a 130-piece orchestra providing accompaniments to allow the professional, student or opera fan to practice, and another sung by an established artist for reference. Each volume contains the lyrics of the arias, plus a short plot summary andbackground information on the orchestra and the performers. Contents: Uldino! Uldini! - Mentre gonfiarsi l´anima (Attila) - Ella giammai m´amo (Don Carlo) - Infelice! . . . e tuo credevi (Ernani) - O tu, Palermo (I Vespri siciliani) - Come dal ciel precipita (Macbeth) - Vieni, o Levita!. . . - Tu sul labbrode´ veggenti (Nabucco) - Il lacerato spirito (Simon Boccanegra)./ Recueil / Chant et Piano