SKU: HL.14019832

In 1918-19, Gian Francesco Malipiero wrote a collection of seven songs, commonly known as Sette Canzoni. They were initially intended as a stand-alone work, but became incredibly popular when they wereincluded as the second act of the composer's opera L'Orfiede. However, in recent years the collection has come to be recognised in its own right as one of the composer's masterpieces.

Like all of the seven songs,the fifth, Serenata , is designed as an individual mini-opera. Scored for a solo Tenor with Piano accompaniment, it tells the story of a young lover serenading his beloved. At the same time, unknown to him, shesits inside lamenting the death of a relative.

S erenata has been translated from the original Italian into French by Henry Prunieres, and into English by Edwin Evans.

SKU: HL.50487684

ISBN 9790080136362. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English. Nicolae Bretan.

Nicolae Bretan (1887-1968) was a great singer and composer who had the keys to create great lieder. He understood that the imagery of poetry deeply stirs the subconscious, that verbal images must be weighed and translated with precise yet unmeasurab le artistry into rhythm and harmony. Given songs that penetrate the listener's psyche, that arouse the listener's humanity, that increase the listener's sense of beauty, the singer has munch of his work already done for him. And the singer who sings Bretan is far ahead on the pathways to his audience's mind and heart. The listeners sense new doors onto vistas of order and beauty, torment and calm. This release of energy withinthe audience is the secret of art. Art is eternity's dialogue in whic h the listener participates, which the listener fills in with his own emotion, his own experience... Frederica von Stade

Nicolae Bretan (1887-1968) war ein Sanger und Komponist der das Geheimnis der grossen Liedschopfung kannte. Erwusste, dass das poetische Bild das Unterbewusste zutiefst aufwuhlt, dass das poetische Wort mit praziser und vollendeter kunstlerischer Meisterschaft in Rhythmen und Harmonien verwandelt werden muss. Dadurch, dass diese Lieder in die Seele des Horers dringen, das Humane, in ihm erwecken, seinen Sinn fur Schonheit steigern, wird dem Sanger seine Arbeit erleichtert. Und der Interpret, der Bretan singt, befindet sich in jenen hohen Gefilden und auf Wegen die zum Herz und Verstand des Publikums fuhren. Seine Horer erahnen Pfade zu neuen Ordnungen undSchonheiten, zu Erregung und Stille. Dieser Ausbruch von Energien im Inneren des Zuhorers ist das Geheimnis der Kunst. Die Kunst ist der Dialog der Ewigkeit, an dem das Publikum teilnimmt, den es mit seinen eigenen Emotionen und Erfahrungen erganzt... Frederica von Stade.

SKU: HL.48009941

UPC: 073999994353. 8.5x11.75x0.317 inches.

Contents: A Pretty Pretty Ducke (Bartlet) * Away With These Self-Loving Lads (Dowland) * Beauty is but a Painted Hell (Campion) * Breake Now My Heart and Die (Campion) * Come Away (Dowland) * Come You Pretty False-Eyed Wanton (Campion) * Downe-a-Downe (Pilkington) * Ev'ry Dame Affects Good Fame (Campion) * Farewell Unkind Farewell (Dowland) * Flora Without Torment Me (Morley) * Her Rosie Cheekes (Campion) * I Heard of Late (Bartlet) * If There be Any One (Bartlet) * Now O Now I Needs Must Part (Dowland) * O Deare That I With Thee Might Live (Campion) * Oft Have I Sighed for Him (Campion) * Shall a Smile or a Guileful Glance? (Corkine) * Shall I Sue Shall I Seek For Grace? (Dowland) * Sorrow Sorrow Stay (Dowland) * Stay Time Awhile thy Flying (Dowland) * Sweet Was the Song (Attey) * The Peaceful Westerne Winde (Corkine) * Thrice Tosse These Oaken Ashes in the Air (Corkine) * Weep No More Sad Fountaines (Dowland) * What if I Never Speede (Dowland) * What Thing Is Love? (Bartlet) * When From My Love I Lookte (Bartlet) * Whither Runeth My Sweetheart (Bartlet) * Who Doth Behold My Mistress' Face (Bartlet).

SKU: HL.49005789

ISBN 9790001062510. 7.5x11.0x0.316 inches.

SKU: HL.49005788

ISBN 9790001062503. 7.5x10.75x0.293 inches.