It could be argued that Geoffrey Bush's most characteristic music is for voices: stage-works choral pieces and solo songs. With a natural affinity for a wide range of texts (from Chaucer to Stevie Smith via Jonson Wilde and Virginia Woolf) - his music always serves to embellish and illuminate the given word.

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 Edwardianreflections 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.

Description Twenty-Four Italian Songs And Arias Of The 17th And 18th Centuries - Medium Low Voice (CD) A standard in teaching literature, now available with both accompaniment cassette or CD. Songlist Alma Del Core (La Constanza In Amor Vince L'Inganno) [Caldara, Antonio] Amarilli, Mia Bella [Caccini, Giulio] Caro Mio Ben [Giordani, Tommaso] Che Fiero Costume [Legrenzi, Giovanni] Come Raggio Di Sol [Caldara, Antonio] Danza, Danza, Fanciulla Gentile [Durante, Francesco] Gia Il Sole Dal Gange [Scarlatti, Alessandro] Lasciatemi Morire (Adriane's Lament) [Monteverdi, Claudio] Le Violette [Scarlatti, Alessandro] Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sento (L'Amor Contrastato) [Paisiello, Giovanni] Nina [Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista] Nina [Pergolesi, Giovanni] Non Posso Disperar [De Luca, S.] O Cessate Di Piagarmi [Scarlatti, Alessandro] O Del Mio Dolce Ardor (Paride Ed Elena) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald] Per La Gloria D'adorarvi [Bononcini, Giovanni] Pieta, Signore [Stradella, Alessandro] Pur Dicesti, O Bocca Bella [Lotti, Antonio] Se Florindo E Fedele [Scarlatti, Alessandro] Se Tu M'ami, Se Sospiri [Pergolesi, Giovanni] Sebben, Crudele [Caldara, Antonio] Tu Lo Sai [Torelli, Giuseppe] Two Bourrees (Third Cello Suite] [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Vergin, Tutto Amor [Durante, Francesco] Vittoria, Mio Core! [Carissimi, Giacomo]

The words for Panis Angelicus form an extract taken from St Thomas Aquinas’s hymn Sacris solemniis and frequently treated as a separate hymn. Of the many settings César Franck’s from 1872 is the best known.He included it in his Messe á Trois Voix for Tenor Harp Cello and Organ some years after that piece was written. Of all the works by Franck the Panis Angelicus with its serene meditative Vocal line and restrainedaccompaniment is the best known and certainly the most frequently recorded in all Voices and in many arrangements.

Bergerettes also known as Shepherdess' Airs were an form of early rustic French song. French composer Jean Baptiste Weckerlin's (1821-1910) arrangements of these popular songs for Voice and Piano are a sublime addition to the repertoire. The Bergerette is traditionally in strophic form. Weckerlin's 20 harmonisations of some of the most favourite French Bergerette provides truly sublime additions to the vocal repertoire. For all aspiring vocalists Weckerlin's arrangements of traditional Bergerettes cannot be missed.

These Schumann songs set to poems by Heinrich Heine are a deeply psychological and disturbing journey as they reflect more often than not the bitterness of unrequited love. The most cheerful songs begin as deceptively happyexperiences which ultimately turn sour as they eventually reveal themselves as somewhat despairing looks at love.Minimum order quantity: 10 copies.

Par WECKERLIN JEAN-BAPTISTE. Bergerettes, also known as Shepherdess' Airs, were an form of early rustic French song. French composer, Jean Baptiste Weckerlin 's (1821-1910) arrangements of these popular songs for Voice and Piano are a sublime addition to the repertoire. The Bergerette is traditionally in strophic form. Weckerlin 's 20 harmonisations of some of the most favourite French Bergerette provides truly sublime additions to the vocal repertoire. For all aspiring vocalists, Weckerlin 's arrangements of traditional Bergerettes cannot be missed./ Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano

In addition to definitive editions of the printed music (with German and English singing translations) the book includes phonetic transcriptions of the Norwegian and German lyrics and word-for- word translations into German and English. The publication also includes a CD which contains: spoken lyrics recorded by native speakers to help singers with pronunciation; study versions of the songs with both melody and simplified accompaniments played on the piano; complete piano accompaniment recordings (pianist Denette Whitter). The book also includes a foreword by Monica Jangaard curator of the Grieg Museum at Troldhaugen.

L'édition fait partie du programme ABRSM (6e) / Voix Moyenne(s) Et Orchestre / Vocal/Piano Score

L'édition fait partie du programme ABRSM (grade 4,5) / Voix Moyenne(s) Et Orchestre / Vocal/Piano Score