SKU: HL.14015640

ISBN 9780853606314. UPC: 884088433413. 9.0x12.0x0.194 inches. English.

A superb collection of standard repertoire for the classical singer. Titles range from Baroque to late 19th century and titles often appear on the ABRSM singing syllabus.

SKU: LM.C06038

ISBN 9790230360388.

CERTON P. : Je n'ose le dire - HAENDEL G.F. : Ch'io mai vi possa - BACH J.S. : Recitatif (extrait de La passion selon St Jean) - BACH J.S. : Choral (extrait de La passion selon St Jean) - GLUCK C.W. : Air (extrait de Orfeo et Euridice) - MOZART W. A. : Duo (extrait de La Flute enchantee) - BERLIOZ H. : Air de Marguerite (extrait de La Damnation de Faust) - SCHUMANN R. : Du Ring an meinem Finger - SCHUMANN R. : Ich grolle nicht - LISZT F. : O lieb' so lang du lieben kannst - OFFENBACH J. : Ah que les hommes sont betes (extrait de La Perichole) - BIZET G. : La chanson boheme (extrait de Carmen) - RIMSKI-KORSAKOV N. : Scheherazade (extrait) - MASSENET J. : Meditation (extrait de Thais) - DEBUSSY C. : En sourdine (extrait des Fetes galantes) - KOECHLIN C. : N'est-ce pas ? - POULENC F. : Une ruine coquille vide - WEILL K. : Salomonsong (extrait de l'Opera de quatre sous) - Depp river (negro spiritual).

SKU: BR.EB-8888

ISBN 9790004185117. 0 x 0 inches. German.

The piano-accompanied Lied is undoubtedly the main genre of Pauline Viardot-Garcia's oeuvre. With this volume, we present settings of German texts by such poets as Ludwig Uhland, Eduard Morike, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Emanuel Geibel, Ludwig Rellstab and Richard Pohl. Except for the Uhland settings, these German Lieder were written between 1862 and 1871 during Viardot's Baden-Baden period, when she shifted the focus of her activities from singing to composing and teaching. Here she worked, among other things, on the poetry of Eduard Morike, which she called the greatest and most genuine in all German poetry after Goethe.One of her first published songs was the setting of the Uhland poem Des Knaben Berglied. Accompanying herself on the piano, she performed it in 1838 on her first concert tour of Germany. A performance of the song at the Leipzig Gewandhaus prompted Robert Schumann to remark: She showed three talents here [composition, singing and piano playing], each of which would grace its artist. Through her music, Viardot brings the creatures in the poems to life, tracing their different characters and inner states, thus giving the texts a new level of interpretation.

Miriam-Alexandra Wigber's recordings of songs from this edition can be found on YouTube.