More great teaching material at the same level as the first volume. Over 30 songs in each volume with no song duplicated between voice types. A student could easily begin either in The First Book or The First Book Part II, or the books may be used concurrently. / Soprano Et Piano

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

The most comprehensive collection of Broadway selections ever organized specifically for the singer. Each of the five volumes in the series contains important songs chosen because they are appropriate fpr each voice. All selections are in their authentic, original form, and taken from the original vocal score. The songs in The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology, written by such noted composers as Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Kern, are vocal masterpieces ideal for the auditioning, practicing or performing vocalists.

fragment from Das Urteil (The Judgement) by Franz Kafka. Par JOST CHRISTIAN. Kafka's œuvre is interspersed with moments of utter anxiety. Moments in which, induced by adrenalin, the blood pressure rises. Blood vessels which seem to constrict, pump enormous quantities of blood the pressure of which might make one believe that the head is going to explode. In The Judgment, an innocent opening story leads to one of the most unusual showdowns in world literature: The beloved father sentences his son to death by drowning; the son immediately obeys since his life, his existence almost explodes, becomes blurred, dissolves at the moment the judgment is pronounced. For me, the 'self' driving him – I imagine this as a high sound in the inner ear – could only be a soprano. This is why the actual 'fall' has turned out to be clear, almost friendly and why Georg only seems to want to breathe a soft and quiet 'Dear parents, I have always loved you' during the fall while no longer keeping the singing tone, shortly before death, almost casually, takes hold of him. Christian Jost/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano

35 Chansons de la scène de Broadway. Un trésor de chansons de théâtre musical dans leurs clés originales, sélectionnés par la voix. Pour les chanteurs aspirants et professionnels qui aiment à Broadway, bibliothèque de théâtre du chanteur d'Alfred Musical présente un élégant collectiohe plus aimés du théâtre musical chansons dans leurs clés originales, authentiquement transcrits de leurs scores vocales originales. Parfaite pour l'étude et aussi propice pour les auditions de la plus importantes et plus encore...Ensorcelés, dérangés et perplexe (de Pal (Rodgers and Hart) - proviennent de mon jardin (le Jardin Secret) (Simon and Norman) - Falling in Love with Love (à partir de The Boys from Syracuse) (Rodgers and Hart) - quarante jours (à partir de Passion) (Stephen Sondheim) - vert Finch et Linney Bird (à partir de Sweeney Toddphen Sondheim) - Hangin ' autour de vous (à partir de Strike Up the Band) (George and Ira Gershwin) - comment pourrais jamais savoir (du Jardin Secret) (Simon and Norman) - le coeur humain (à partir de jadis sur cette île) (Flaherty and Ahrens) - Je ne peux pas Faire du soleil (à partir de b / Pop & rock / Recueil / Soprano et Piano

Par SAARIAHO KAIJA. These three songs, written for the Finnish operatic soprano, Anu Komsi, take texts by Pentti Saarikoski, one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 1960s and 1970s. / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano