Baritone voice & Piano SKU: ST.Y272 Composed by Rhian Samuel. Vocal music...(+)
Baritone voice & Piano
SKU: ST.Y272
Composed by Rhian Samuel.
Vocal music. Five songs
to poems by Anne
Stevenson. Score. Stainer
& Bell Ltd. #Y272.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y272).
ISBN
9790220222849.
1.
Arrival Dream 2.
Snow Squalls 3. It
Happens 4. East Wind
5. A Clearer
Memory
The
contrasting aspects of
nature are a major theme
in the work of Rhian
Samuel, and in her song
cycle Spring
Diary for baritone
and piano she responds
passionately to its
vernal magic.
Beginning in dream and
ending in memory, the
five movements of the
collection are a dramatic
response to the turning
season in Wales, conveyed
through the fine detail
of its characteristic
weather and landscape as
observed by the poet Anne
Stevenson.
Premiered at London's
City University,
Spring Diary is
excellent material for
graduate singers and
pianists, who will draw
inspiration from its
vivid and assured
word-setting and
substantial and evocative
keyboard part.
Baritone Voice and Piano - Intermediate SKU: FP.FMJ02 Composed by John Ma...(+)
Baritone Voice and Piano
- Intermediate
SKU:
FP.FMJ02
Composed by
John Manduell. Sheet
Music and Books. Songs
for baritone voice and
piano, inspired by Sir
John Manduell’s
long-standing love of
French renaissance verse.
Classical. Vocal Score.
Forsyths Publications
#FMJ02. Published by
Forsyths Publications
(FP.FMJ02).
ISBN
9790570503896.
A
wonderfully balanced and
yet contrasting set of
songs for baritone voice
and piano, inspired by
Sir John
Manduell’s
long-standing love of
French renaissance
verse.
In the
first, perhaps the most
often quoted of Ronsard's
poems, the poet invites
young Mignonne to come
and look at the purple
rose and to realise that
her beauty like the
rose's will fade all too
soon. Du Bellary's poem
is redolent of late
summer heat and haze as
the thresher of the title
calmly pursues his work.
The Marot is a brief
exercise in courteous
mockery as the poet
chides his ailing lady
upon her gastronomic
self-indulgence and warns
her of the inevitable
consequences upon her
figure.
Finally
published in 2013, Trois
Chansons is one of the of
the composer’s
earliest surviving works,
written while he was
studying with the late
Sir Lennox Berkely as a
postgraduate student at
the Royal Academy of
Music. The first
performance was given by
Beverley Humphreys at the
Royal Academy of Music in
1956.