Henry Purcell: 40 Songs For Voice and Piano: Low Voice: Vocal Album

Henry Purcell's Songs Book 2 have been edited by Maureen Lehane and Peter Wishart and contain:Ah how sweet it is to love (E - F)Dido's lament (C - G)The fatal hour comes on apace (C sharp - F)From rosy bow'rs (C sharp - F sharp)Hark how all things with one sound rejoice (D - F)Set for the Associated Board Guildhall School and Trinity College examinations.

Fifteen Songs And Airs for Contralto or Baritone with piano accompaniment. Edited by Gerald Cooper.

A third book of songs by this great English composer all edited by Maureen Lehane and Peter Wishart. CONTENTS:Evening hymn (C - F)I attempt from love's sickness to fly (C sharp - G (E))I'll sail upon the dog star (C - G)Nymphs and shepherds (D - G)Oh solitude (B flat - F)Pious Celinda (C - G)Set for the Associated Board and Trinity College examinations.

This volume brings together five previously unpublished realisations by Benjamin Britten of vocal music by Henry Purcell. The realisation of the figured bass is highly personal in style coupled with thte fact that the pieces were originally prepared with specific singers in mind reflects Britten's afiinity Purcell’s music. These pieces are all arranged for one or two voices and Piano.

This collection for progressing students includes art songs as well as arrangements of folksongs and spirituals. ART SONGS Anonymous: Pastime with good company · Campian: Jack and Joan · Dowland: Come again sweet love · Dowland: What if I never speed · Gibbons: The Silver Swan · Ireland: Spring Sorrow · Lawes: How happy art thou · Morley: It was a lover and his lass · Morley: Now is the month of Maying · Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness · Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds · Quilter: Weep you no more · Vaughan Williams: The Call · Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words · FOLKSONGS/SPIRITUALS All Through the Night (arr. Nicholl) · The Gospel Train (Walters) · Greensleeves(arr. Stanley) · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Boyd) · How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. Ruck) · I gave my love a cherry (arr. Dean) · Jacob's Ladder (arr. Walters) · My Lord What a Mornin' (arr. Burleigh) · Shenandoah (arr. Walters) · Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (arr. Walters) · This Little Light of Mine (arr. Ruck).

Thomas Adès made these four Purcell realisations for medium voice and piano for recitals with the countertenor Iestyn Davies in 2012 and 2017. Four Songs is comprised of two of Purcellâ??s Tempest songs â??Come Unto these Yellow Sandsâ?? and â??Full Fathom Fiveâ?? alongside the much-loved â??An Evening Hymnâ?? and â??By Beauteous Softnessâ??. The whole collection lasts around 12 minutes. Adès described Purcellâ??s manner of setting English text as â??magnificentâ?? remarking that â??the way that emotion the rhythm of the words is rendered into music is incomparably natural and powerful.â?? All of these qualities are brought to the fore in these realisations which should prove an invaluableaddition to the repertoire.

An impressive facsimile containing many songs from Henry Purcell's own hand. This Facsimile was Published for the Gresham College and The Purcell Society.