Frank Bridge’s Three Songs for Medium Voice Viola and Piano is the second volume in a 30-volume series by The Frank Bridge Trust in association with Thames Publishing celebrating the works of Frank Bridge. This publication features the songs Far far from each other Where is it that our soul doth go? and Music when soft voices die and includes the score for Viola separately making the collaboration of the three musicians easier. The songs can be and often are performed together as a cycle but also work as short individual pieces. The first performance of the three songs in December 1908 marked a rareoccurrence as Frank Bridge played the Piano part himself. Far far from each other is the most ambitious of the three pieces for all three musicians. The words are excerpts from Matthew Arnold’s ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems Parting’.Where is it that our soul doth go? is the shortest of the three songs and the words are a translation of the last stanza of Heinrich Heine’s Clarisse translated by K. F. Kroeker.While the first two songs are original settings Bridge first wrote Music when soft voices die for High Voice Piano and Cello in 1903. The present version was transcribed in 1907. Music when soft voices die the short poem providing the words for this piece is one of the most influential and well-known of Shelley’s works.Watch Three Songs performed by Rebecca Ringle (Mezzo-Soprano) Luke Fleming (Viola) and Roger Steptoe (Piano):

This is Bennett's first collection of choral pieces written specifically for the Christmas season. These four carols to American texts recall traditional music of the New World the composer's home for many years and bring a welcome fresh approach to the festive idiom: along with the well-loved Away In A Manger and I Wonder As I Wander Bennett gives us his interpretation of two Spirituals - A Child of God and Rise Up Shepherd and Follow.For unison high voices with Piano accompaniment.Score and parts of an orchestral string accompaniment by the composer are available on hire from the publisher (Novello &Company).

Op. 55-Dvorák’s song cycle Gypsy Songs Op.55 on words by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk were written at the beginning of 1880 at the request of the Bohemian tenor Gustav Walter a member of the Vienna Court Opera and the work’s dedicatee. For this Urtext edition the editor Veronika Vejvodová has taken the original print as her main source. The edition appears in two volumes one for high voice and another for low voice. Third volume from the new five-volume Urtext edition of Dvorák’s complete songs One of the most popular and best-known song cycles of the romantic repertoire Extensive Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) andCritical Commentary (Eng) by the editor Vocal texts in three languages (Cz/Eng/Ger)

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for high voice with piano accompaniment in F. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

For High Voice and Piano. With words based on a poem by Arthur Symons. In G Flat Major.