Partitions de Schirmer pour Piano, Voix

For Voice and Piano Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan was a commission by The Carnegie Hall Corporation for Sylvia McNair and was premiered at her Carnegie Hall recital given March 15 2002with Martin Katz at the piano. Corigliano who had never encountered Dylan's own musical settings of the chosen poems has given us new musical settings of icons of American folk music from the 1960s.

Voice and Piano. The piece was originally a duet (this is published see that section) but the composer also adapted a version for solo voice. The 17th century British poem by Andrew Marvel tells of a happy island paradise.

The song cyclette Petit Fours was composed in 1959 by John Corigliano for Voice and Piano based on the four poems by Robert Herrick Ogden Nash Aloysius Bertrand and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Contents: The Ancient Mariner The Turtle Une Allee Luxembourg and Upon Julia's Clothes. One of contemporary music's most distinguished composers John Corigliano has infused classical music with new life by engaging an unusually broad audience. The only person to have won two Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition he has alsoreceived three other Grammy Awards the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Symphony No. 2 the 2000 Academy Award for his score for The Red Violin (his third film score) and the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Best New Orchestral Composition for his Symphony No. 1.

For Soprano and Piano. These threesettings by the multi-talented André Previn composed for and premiered by Renée Fleming demonstrate once more why Emily Dickinson's poetry is irresistible to composers and singers.

Book II-Selected and edited with biographical notes by Alessandro Parisotti. English translations.