Par POULENC FRANCIS. Calligrammes is a set of seven melodies by Francis Poulenc based on poems by Guillaume Appolinaire. The overall piece lasts 10 and a half minutes and the book includes the score for Voice and Piano. Each work is dedicated to a different person and has its own story: I. L'Espionne / The Spy & 1'32 II. Mutation / Mutation & 0‘ 40 III. Vers le Sud / Toward the South & 1'40 IV. Il pleut / It's raining & 1' V. La grâce exilee / Grace in exil & 0'28 VI. Aussi bien que lescigales / As well as crickets & 1'40 VII. Voyage / Travel & 2'20 Each piece can be work on its own or the whole book can be played at once. Francis Poulenc is French composer and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces, Operas ('Dialogues des Carmelites'), ballets ('The does') as well as some Orchestral works./ Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano

Philip Stone is an actor of long and wide experience. In cinema he has worked with distinguished directors such as Stanley Kubrick Lindsay Anderson and Stephen Spielburg.he has also been a familiar face on our televisions for the past thirty years as well. Down those years he's always had a quiet ability to compose songs-words and music. They were written en passant in various places: in a tubercular chalet on the shores of Morecambe Bay - in a back room in Brixton - in a bedroom in Leeds - in a friend's house in St John's Wood. Some of these songs feature in his one-man show Beginnings and Endings and these eight are a varied example of that ability.

Par CANTELOUBE JOSEPH. Regrouped by Joseph Canteloube, this book is the third series from the set Chants D'Auvergne. This edition, written for Voice and Piano, contains lyrics in local dialect ; Occitan, with the French translation below. Some directives are given to obtain the correct pronunciation of the language. It features five songs: I. Lo Fiolaire (La fileuse) / The Spinner II. Passo pel prat (Viens par le pre) / Come through the field III. Lou Boussu (Le Bossu) / The huntchback IV. Brezairola (Berceuse) / Lullaby V. Malurous qu'o uno fenno - Bourree (Malheureux qui a une femme) /Unfortunate thus who has a wife Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957) was a French composer, musician and author, mainly known for his folk songs and for the series Chants D'Auvergne inspired by the area his family was from. / Niveau : Moyen / Répertoire / Chant

The songs of A Garland for de la Mare are vintage Howells in their refinement harmonic subtleties and dreamlike quality. And although the cover says that there are ten songs in this set the songbook comprises thirteen songs including two versions of Before Dawn.Herbert Howells is a giant of 20th century Anglican church music the remainder of whose oeuvre is in the process of gaining new appreciation. He was a sensitive composer for Voice and among the very best of his songs are these settings of verses by Walter de la Mare a personal friend. Howells had frequently discussed the publication of A Garden for de la Mare with Christopher Palmer (author of the major study ofthe composer’s life) but Palmer died prior to publication and Michael Pilkington saw the project through to completion.

Par BLANCHARD. Les Bretons ont des Coeurs fidèles; Derrière chez nous y a-t-etang; Dans un Faubourg de Nantes; Neoua! (Noë l); La Servante et le Cure; Avions reçu Commandement; Quand j'etions petite Bobiche/ Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano

Volume 2 - Songs 1918-1919-This society edition contains fifteen songs chronologically arranged and each with a detailed preface giving the relevant historical background to the composition. Warlock was very pedantic about original keys. He deplored transpositions but bowed to their necessity in performing editions. In this edition keys have been chosen to suit the medium voice. This generally means a range of about an octave and a fifth with nothing below B flat and nothing above F sharp/G flat.

Volume 3 - Songs 1920-1922-This society edition contains fourteen songs chronologically arranged and each with a detailed preface giving the relevant historical background to the composition. Warlock was very pedantic about original keys. He deplored transpositions but bowed to their necessity in performing editions. In this edition keys have been chosen to suit the medium voice. This generally means a range of about an octave and a fifth with nothing below B flat and nothing above F sharp/G flat.

54 LiederContent : BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER: Childhood among the Ferns - Before and after Summer - The Self-unseeing - Overlooking the River - Channel Firing - In the Mind's Eye - The Too Short Time - Epeisodia - Amabel - He Abjures LoveEARTH AND AIR AND RAIN: Summer Schemes - When I set out for Lyonnesse - Waiting for Both - The Phantom - So I have fared - Rollicum-Rorum - To Lizbie - The Clock of the Years - In a Churchyard - Proud SongstersI SAID TO LOVE:I need not go - At Middle-Field Gate in February - Two Lips - In five-score - Summers - For Life I had never cared greatly - I said to Love LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death - Who is Sylvia' - Fear no more the heat o' the sun - O Mistress Mine - It was a lover and his lassLOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST:Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth) - Riddle Song - False ColcolinelOH FAIR TO SEE:I say I'll seek her - Oh fair to see - As I lay in the early sun - Only the wanderer - To Joy - Harvest - Since we lovedTILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth - In years defaced - The Market-Girl - I look into my glass - It never looks like summer - At a lunar Eclipse - Life Laughs OnwardTO A POET:To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence - On Parent Knees - Intrada - The Birthnight - June on Castle Hill - Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia

First Edition. Par KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG. Erich Wolfgang Korngold was one of the greatest child prodigies in the history of music. His early songs, now published for the first time, reveal the young composer's extraordinary talent. Based on the musical language of the late Romantic period, he created a unique world of sounds for Eichendorff's poems: full of melodic expanse, refined harmony and sparkling inventive genius. For the first time, this edition shows the early work of a composer who later became one of Hollywood's most successful composers of film scores./ Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano

Voix Moyennes Et Piano-Recueil-Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) was a French composer conductor and organist. Despite being predominantly remembered as a conductor his Trois Chansons De Métiers remains a recognised piece in the Vocal repertoire. Pierné studied at the Paris Conservatoire before taking up the position of chief conductor for the concert series Concerts Colonne in 1910. He remained in the post until 1933 and during this time he notably conducted the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird. Pierné composed for a variety of instruments. Trois Chansons DeMétiers is arranged for two vocal groups and contains many characteristics typical of the French style such as lyrical melodies a significant amount performance directions flourishes of semiquavers chromaticism and many changes in dynamics. Trois Chansons De Métiers 1) The Tailor 2) The Shoemakers and 3) The Rope Maker is a varied piece essential to the repertoire of aspiring choristers.

Volume Viii - Songs 1928-1930-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the eighth volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1928-1930. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With fifteen songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendousacquisition for any enthusiasts of English song.

Volume Vii - Songs 1927-1928-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the seventh volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1927-1928. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With twelve songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendous acquisitionfor any enthusiasts of English song.

Frank Bridge’s Three Songs for Medium Voice Viola and Piano is the second volume in a 30-volume series by The Frank Bridge Trust in association with Thames Publishing celebrating the works of Frank Bridge. This publication features the songs Far far from each other Where is it that our soul doth go? and Music when soft voices die and includes the score for Viola separately making the collaboration of the three musicians easier. The songs can be and often are performed together as a cycle but also work as short individual pieces. The first performance of the three songs in December 1908 marked a rareoccurrence as Frank Bridge played the Piano part himself. Far far from each other is the most ambitious of the three pieces for all three musicians. The words are excerpts from Matthew Arnold’s ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems Parting’.Where is it that our soul doth go? is the shortest of the three songs and the words are a translation of the last stanza of Heinrich Heine’s Clarisse translated by K. F. Kroeker.While the first two songs are original settings Bridge first wrote Music when soft voices die for High Voice Piano and Cello in 1903. The present version was transcribed in 1907. Music when soft voices die the short poem providing the words for this piece is one of the most influential and well-known of Shelley’s works.Watch Three Songs performed by Rebecca Ringle (Mezzo-Soprano) Luke Fleming (Viola) and Roger Steptoe (Piano):

Chansons Grises is a collection of seven beautiful settings of Paul Verlaine's poems by Reynaldo Hahn for voice with piano accompaniment.

Man Without Myth is a wonderful song cycle which presents three wonderful settings of Ursula Vaughan Williams' poems by Betty Roe. Arranged for Medium voice and Piano.