Soprano with Piano Reduction-Rita Dove Pulitzer Prize-winning author former Poet Laureate of the United States and one of our most distinguished literary figures penned the group of poems that are the basis for this John Williams composition. Ms. Dovewrites with wit and wisdom of the many phases of a woman's life including adolescence courting love pregnancy betrayal and renewal. Originally composed for soprano and full orchestra. Includes: 1. Song 2.Chocolate 3. Adolescence 4. Black on a Saturday Night 5. Serenade 6. Expecting 7. Starting Over

POD-John Tavener's 1984 work A Mini Song-Cycle For Gina for Soprano and Piano was written for Gina Cowen who gave the first performance along with Judith Ginsburg at St John's Church Ladbroke Grove London on 3rd April 1986. Text by W.B. Yeats.This is a special item which is made to order.

Édition Originale-Les cycles de chansons d´Olivier Messiaen en dehors des Poèmes pour Mi ne sont pas ses ?uvres les plus connues. Cet ouvrage rassemble des chansons pour soprano et piano qui offrent de beaux exemples de l´extraordinaire langage poétique etmusical de Messiaen.

for soprano and piano. Par CASKEN JOHN. Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran’s New French Song project. It was as a result of having written one short song to words by Verlaine that I subsequently decided to set two further poems to make a group of three. All three were also set by Debussy: L’ombre des arbres and Chevaux de bois appear in Ariettes Oubliées, while Colloque sentimental belongs to Debussy’s second set of Fêtes Galantes. The poems I have grouped together are linked by the idea of three different landscapes. In the first, Verlaine precedes the words of his own sad, pale landscape with words from Cyrano de Bergerac about a nightingale who fears himself about to fall into a river and drown. In the second poem the landscape has been occupied by a fairground where men, women and children watch as the hobby-horses go round and round before night falls and the church tolls a passing-bell. The third poem takes us into an old park where two ghosts recall their past. The one wonders if the other remembers the happy days of their past lives, but the other doesn’t want to remember, barely acknowledging the closeness they once shared, seeing only that ‘hope has fled, defeated, towards the dark sky.’ I am very grateful to Roger Nichols and Dominique Mols for their advice with the setting of the French texts and with the translations. John Casken Colloque sentimental was first performed by Alison Smart and Katherine Durran at the Purcell Room in London on 13 July 2004/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano

for Soprano and Piano Vocal/Piano Score. Par ADOLPHE BRUCE. Water Songs is a group of six songs about water in various forms, from rain to the human brain. The poems range from the lyrical poetry of Katherine Barrett Swett, Emily Dickinson, and James Joyce to a comical verse by Shakespeare, a spiritual meditation by the Persian poet Rumi, and a thought-provoking list of water facts and statistics. Written especially for wonderful soprano Angel Blue after Bruce Adolphe had discovered she had been frequently already performing some of his other works (including Valley Girl in Love from his song cycle A Thousand Years of Love). Angel gave the world premiere on May 15, 2021 with Bryan Wagorn on piano in a concert offered by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. / Date parution : 2022-04-01/ Recueil / Soprano et Piano

Par RECHBERGER HERMAN. Herman Rechberger (1947?2022) composed the song cycle Seven Cat Songs between Christmas eve 2007 and the 4th of January 2008. They were inspired by his ?lovely hairy companions Tosca and Carmen?. The songs exist in two versions, one for soprano (...a SHE cat) and one for baritone (...a He Cat). Have a look inside by clicking ?sample?. Duration: c. 20 minutes Contents: I A cat's self portrait (Herman Rechberger) II Cats can sleep anywhere (Eleanor Farjeon) III A cat's memory (Jane Webb) IV A cat's evening prayer (anon.) V A song about two cats (anon.) VI A black-cat luck (anon.) VII All kinds of cats (BJ Boskitt) / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Recueil / Soprano et Piano

Composé en 2007 pour le festival de Lieder de Leeds, Shimmerwords et les chansons au ralenti pour soprano et piano de Hesketh est un cycle de chanson de 18 minutes composé de six chansons en quatre sections. Le texte est tiré d'un recueil de poésie chinoise des VIIIe et IXe siècles qui couvrent divers sujets de nature et de voyage à la vie elle-même. La musique est coloré et directe avec une abondance d'humour et de clarté. / Soprano Et Piano

A cycle of nine songs. Par TREDICI DAVID DEL. A Cycle Of Nine Songs/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano

Song cycle for Soprano and Piano (reduction from orchestral score) with poems by Robert Desnos. First performed at the BBC Proms in August 1991 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer with Solveig Kringleborn.Duration c.16 mins.

A Spanish Liederbooklet is a short song cycle(of about eight minutes’ duration) for high soprano and piano written for Eileen Hulse in 1988. Eileen gave the first performance accompanied by Graham Johnson at the 1988 CheltenhamFestival. The texts are all Spanish Romances by anonymous authors from the 15th/16th centuries. The songs are sung in the original Spanish.

The last words of famous people whether real or invented exert a strange fascination. Breaking with the tradition that a song cycle is a setting of poetry Timothy Bowers has chosen the last words of fourteen famous (in one case infamous) characters from history and two comic/ironic epitaphs by Byron as his texts. Each collection provides a short (c 7’) concert work with settings ranging from fifteen seconds to five minutes duration.Book 1 is for Soprano and Piano. Two poets (Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickenson) followed by two martyrs - St Joan of Arc and Anne Boleyn.

This was written for Barbara Bonney who had told Previn that she might be related to Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney). Previn discovered a collection of memories of Billy the Kid by women who had loved him. One of these women Miss Sallie Chisum expressed herself with such warmth and pungency that Previn was at once attracted to the character.

This work was commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts Ltd. with theaid of funds provided by the John S. Cohen Foundation and the PRS Foundation. The firstperformance was given by Rachel Nicholls and Paul Plummer at St. Andrew’s Church Presteigne on 29 August 2005.Composer's NoteGladestry Quatrains is a setting of 12 short poems by Jo Shapcott from her collection of the same title. It originated in a project for the 2003 Presteigne Festival called A Garland for Presteigne in which 10 composers associated with the Festival were asked to write a short song each celebrating the Welsh border country the choice of poetryranged widely and I chose two of Jo Shapcott’s evocative miniatures (still adding up to slightly less than the timing I had been requested to provide!). As I wrote them I started to make sketches for some more settings from the same collection and the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts very kindly commissioned this new larger song-cycle proper for their 2005 Festival. The original pair of poems form the third (Gwaithla Brook) and last (Cefn Hir) of the songs in which the eighth combines two poems Burl Hill and Newchurch. Throughout I have been aware of the sights and sounds of nature the character of the landscape and the sense of history and timelessness of this beautiful part of the world as reflected in Jo Shapcott’s poetry as well as (I hope) the wit and directness of her expression. The whole work though it has eleven songs still lasts only about 20 minutes the concision of the texts and the need to find musical equivalents to this was an important part of the concept of the piece.        John McCabe 2005