This graded songbook will help you develop the skills required to sing in a foreign language. An invaluable resource for all singing students and teachers. This edition is for intermediate level high voices and contains songs in French German Italian and Spanish. A detailed pronunciation guide is included using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Each song includes background information as well as technical and musical teaching points. The accompanying CD boasts a full pronunciation guide by native speakers as well as full recordings of all accompaniments for practice and performance.

Venetian Songs Op.22 is a cycle of four songs for High Voice and Piano by Ian Venables setting the inspiring texts of John Addington Symonds.Venables has allowed the texts of Symonds' poetry to guide these sensitive settings rich in musical imagery to illuminate the words. The music moves between moments of intense anguish and despair to expressions of pure beauty and allusions to the delicacy of nature.The cycle received its first performance in March 1995 at Clifton Hill House Bristol - formerly the Symonds' family home and now Bristol University's principal Halls Of Residence. The performance was organised as part of the formal celebrationsmarking the opening of the Gothic Library.