‘Eleven-Fifty’ is the fourth of seven separate songs to various poets written byLennox Berkeley in the late 1930s and early 1940s. They were grouped together forconvenience as Opus 14 No. 2.‘The Beacon Barn’ thethird of these songs also has a text by Patrick O’Malleywho according to Tony Scotland was ‘one of the First World War poets whoserved as a private in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers’. ‘Eleven-Fifty’ was composed inApril1938 and is a brief glorification of a high-speed train where the moto perpetuoaccompaniment barely stops. Berkeley admired Honegger bought a copy of thescore of his railway depiction Pacific 231 in 1924 andreviewed enthusiastically an all-Honegger concert conducted by the composer in Paris (‘A Paris Letter’ The MonthlyMusical Record June 1929).

Baritone-Operatic AriasBased on the Opera Omnia Rameau (OOR) This edition contains the great monologues arias and ariettas that Rameau wrote for basse-taille (the 18th-century equivalent of today’s baritone). The volume which contains a historical Introduction in German and English is based on the critical edition of the works Opera omnia Rameau (OOR). A short description of the dramatic situation and an English translation of the vocal text precede each number. The volume contains the baritone arias for the main characters from the following operas: Anacréon (Anacréon)Castor et Pollux (Pollux)Dardanus (Anténor)Les Fêtes de Polymnie (Zimès)Hippolyte et Aricie (Thésée)Les Indes galantes (Bellone Huascar Adario)Naïs (Tirésie)La Naissance d’Osiris (le grand Prêtre)Nélée et Myrthis (Nélée)Les Paladins (Orcan Anselme)La Princesse de Navarre (un Français)Les Surprises de l’amour (Anacréon Astole)Le Temple de la Gloire (l’Envie)Zoroastre (Abramane)

21 songs in English for progressing singers supplementing the song choices in Easy Songs for Beginning Singers and The First Book of Solos series. Contents: Barbara Allen (Quilter) · The Bay of Biscay (Davy) · Blackbirds and Thrushes (Sharp) · The Coasts of High Barbary (Sharp) · Come Let's Be Merry (Wilson) · The Duke of Bedford (Sharp) · Farewell Nancy (Sharp) · Gentle Annie (Foster) · I Am a Pirate King (Sullivan) · I Want What I Want When I Want It (Herbert) · The Law is the True Embodiment (Sullivan) · The Midshipmite (Adams) · My Generous Heart Disdains (Hopkinson) · Nothing But a Plain Old Soldier (Foster) · The Old Road (Scott) · Punchinello (Molloy) · The RamblingSailor (Sharp) · Shipmates o' Mine (Sanderson) · The Song of Brother Hilario (Cox) · Three Poor Mariners (Quilter) · While the Foaming Billows Roll (Wilson).

Antologia di arie - Antologie d'arias - Arien-Anthology-Une anthologie complète d?airs d?Opéra italien qui ne devrait manquer dans aucune bibliothèque. Toutes les pièces sont répertoriées avec notes historiques notes de lintrigue et des traductions pour l?étude. Textes en italien français et allemand.Arias de : Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea); L?Amore dei tre re (Montemezzi); Andrea Chénier (Giordano); L?Arlesiana (Cilea); Attila (Verdi); Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini);Belfagor (Respighi); La Calisto (Cavalli); La Cenerentola (Rossini); Così fan tutte (Mozart); Don Carlo (Verdi); Don Pasquale (Donizetti); I due foscari (Verdi); Edgar (Puccini); L?Elisird?Amore (Donizetti); Falstaff (Verdi); La Fanciulla del West (Puccini); La Favorita (Donizetti); Il Figliuol Prodigo (Ponchielli); La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart); La Forza del Destino (Verdi); GianniSchicchi (Puccini); I Gioiella della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari); Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti); Luisa Miller (Verdi); Manon Lescaut (Puccini); Nabucco (Verdi); Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart); Orfeo(Monteverdi); Pagliacci (Leoncavallo); I Puritani (Bellini); Rigoletto (Verdi); Rinaldo (Händel); Il Tabarro (Puccini); I vespri siciliani (Verdi); Le Villi (Puccini).