John Dryden wrote two odes in honour of the patroness of music and musicians - A Song For St. Cecilia's Day , in 1687, and, in 1697, Alexander's Feast , both of which were subsequently set to music by Handel. A Song For St. Cecilia's Day proved so popular that it was performed six times during the winter of 1739-40, in spite of the fact that this was a 'hard winter'. Written for soprano and tenor soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, this edition contains all vocal parts and a piano accompaniment / Chant Et Piano

Sea Pictures is a song-cycle for Contralto and Orchestra which was first performed on 5th October 1899 at the Norwich Festival. This edition features a Piano reduction of the Orchestral score.

Pour Soprano Et Orchestre (Piano Reduction)-Gabriel Fauré's Chanson De Mélisande for Soprano and Orchestra. Reduction for Voice and Piano.   “An enchanted dream” – poet Charles Van Leberghe’s words give us an idea of the audience’s enthusiasm at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Piccadilly on June 21st 1898 when the first English language performance of Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck was performed with incidental music by Gabriel Fauré.    The composer had tasked his favourite student Charles Koechlin with orchestratingthe score. The London theatre’s small number of musicians suited the apprentice musician’s ideals of clarity and transparency. It was 1936 before Koechlin returned to La Chanson de Mélisande this time to create a version with orchestra published the following year as a Piano-Vocal score. Using autograph manuscripts Roger Nichols and Otfrid Nies have created a new edition of the Piano-Vocal reduction that includes the text of the melody in English French and German. The score contains the 1898 and 1936 variations as well as an informative preface by Otfrid Nies.

Original key for high voice-Rachmaninoff composed his collection of 13 songs Op. 34 in 1912 but it was only three years later that he added a little closing piece without any text: the Vocalise which soonoutshone the other songs in terms of popularity and renown. Since its first performance in 1916 this expressive melancholy piece has circulated in countless arrangements by others.Rachmaninoff himself made anarrangement for Orchestra and Voice as well as one for orchestra alone. Our Urtext edition contains the original version for High Voice and Piano and is based on the autograph sources in the Glinka Museum in Moscow. A particularhighlight is the separate vocal part that not only serves singers well but also all those instrumentalists who wish to play this wonderful piece using the original solo part.

A cycle of songs from the Les Six composer setting French texts from the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. This version for voice and piano from 1930 follows the version for voice and orchestra from 1929. This is regarded as Tailleferre's most feminist work the poems addressing the difficulties experienced by women especially marital and affairs of the heart and perhaps draws on her personal experiences of her turbulent relationship at the time with the American caricaturist Ralph Barton.

Par SALLINEN AULIS. Dedicated to all my Dead Ones, those whose memory and strength still lingers on this side of the border. -Aulis Sallinen The vocal score to Sallinen's 1995 work, written to requiem poems by Lassi Nummi for baritone and orchestra. / Rép Classique / Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Piano Reduction-Jon Lord âgé de 28 ans et sans aucune expérience en composition pour orchestre écrit cette ?uvre en seulement trois mois à l?approche de sa première avec le Royal Philharmonic Orchestra dirigé par Malcolm Arnold. Cette première ?uvre pour orchestre lança ses carrières parallèles de compositeur et membre fondateur de Deep Purple. Elle est particulièrement riche en invention juvénile solide en structure et raffinée en artisanat musical. Innovante lors de sa première cette ?uvre ne semble que gagner en stature depuis lors. La partition complète apparaît ici en publication pour la première fois en édition méticuleusement préparée par le collaborateur du compositeur depuislongtemps Paul Mann.

Par RODGERS RICHARD / HART L.. Stage Works Vocal Scores/ Recueil / Chant et Piano