Par CLERC EMMANUEL. Quatre textes mis en musique pour BARYTON et piano : une évocation du grillon qui vit caché et heureux, du chat qui sert en voulant nuire, de la montagne qui accouche d'une souris, et enfin de la rose-thé, la plus délicate de toutes ! Musiques exquises, tout en nuances, aux mélodies raffinées et aux harmonies subtiles qui éclairent d'un jour nouveau ces textes du XVIIIe ou XIXe. Des mélodies élégantes pour illustrer ces fables sensibles, astucieuses ou espiègles / Date parution : 2015-08-03/ Répertoire / Baryton et Piano

Par PHILIPS JULIAN. Four Sonnets of John Clare by Julian Philips is a 12-minute work for baritone and piano which sets four sonnets by the English poet John Clare. The work reflects on different aspects of Clare\'s human experience: the transcience of worldly renown, the loss of inspiration, a fear of neglect in death and a love of the numinous in nature, and the music seeks to match Clare\'s poetic gestures with clarity and economy. 1. Fame 2. The Death of Beauty 3. Memory 4. The Shepherd\'s Tree The Four Sonnets of John Clare were completed in April 2002 and commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with funds made available by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. The set was written specially for Sir Thomas Allen and Graham Johnson, who gave its premiere on 16 July 2002 at London\'s Wigmore Hall. The work is dedicated to William Lyne. The score (EP 73506) is available for sale. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Baryton et Piano

Par FRANCES-HOAD CHERYL. Commissioned by the Oxford Lieder Festival, for baritone and piano, this song sets text by Charles Baudelaire in an English translation by Eleanor Brown. Premiered by Ashley Riches, baritone and Michael Dussek, piano. / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Répertoire / Baryton et Piano

Par FRANCES-HOAD CHERYL. everything grows extravagantly was co-commissioned by Oxford Lieder and the Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, in celebration of the 20th Oxford Lieder Festival and the 400th anniversary of the Oxford Botanic Garden, with support from the Bishopsdown Trust, the Finzi Trust, the Nicholas John Trust and the RVW Trust. First performed at the 20th Oxford Lieder Festival on 20th October 2021 at Saint John the Evangelist by baritone Marcus Farnsworth and pianist Libby Burgess. / Date parution : 2022-04-01/ Répertoire / Baryton et Piano

Five Shakespeare Songs Opus 15-A highly attractive cycle of Shakespeare texts dealing with love and the passing of time as set for Voice and Piano by one of the finest British composers of vocal music of his time Gerald Finzi.This work was composed from 1929 to 1042. The first performance was given on 12 October 1942 at the National Gallery London by Robert Irwin (baritone) and Howard Ferguson (piano).

Baritone Voice And Piano Performing Score-Composed in 2012 the two pieces in Sadie Harrison’s Heartoutbursts! take their inspiration from traditional English folk.'...in the folk-song there is to be found the complete history of a people recorded by the race itself through the heartoutbursts of its healthiest output. It is a history compiled with deeper feeling and more understanding than can be found among the dates and data of thegreatest historian...'(Percy Grainger 1922)In 1905 Joseph Taylor won a Lincolnshire folksong competition with his rendition of Brigg Fair a song he had learnt from a gypsy. Australian composer Percy Graingersubsequently published a setting in his Lincolnshire Posy with Delius using the tune in his rhapsody Brigg Fair. Both composers sought to vivify the tradition of English folksong celebrating not only the ancient tunes and words but also the qualities of particular folksingers like Joseph Taylor.Harrison’s own Australian Heartoutbursts! follow unashamedly in the Grainger tradition with echoes of the original folktunes underpinning both songs Brigg Fair and The Seeds of Love. Although different in character both texts use similar images as analogies for the joys and despairing associated with love - the lark and violet symbolize youth the lily as virginity the red rose as true love and the willow representing falsehood and abandonment.

Poulenc's song cycle  Chansons Gaillardes was composed in 1925-1926 during the post-war euphoria. The cycle is essential to aspiring advanced Baritones. Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was a highly prolific composer and remains popular to this day. Chansons Gaillardes was composed towards the beginning of the composer's career for Baritone Pierre Bernac. At the first performance Poulenc himself played the piano and the song cycle was immediately a hit. Chansons Gaillardes is made up of eight songs which alternate between lively and slow tempos; 1) TheFickle Mistress 2) Drinking Song 3) Madrigal 4) Summoning the Fates 5) Bacchanalian Couplets 6) The Offering 7) The Beautiful Youth and 8) Serenade. As a song cycle with much variation Poulenc's Chansons Gaillardes is an exciting addition to the Baritone repertoire.

Once Did I Breathe Another's Breath was commissioned for the 2013 Ludlow Weekend of English Song with funds provided by Finzi Friends and specifically Ernie Kay Brian & Mary Midgley and Adrian & NormaWilliams.The first performance of Once Did I Breathe Another's Breath was given by Ashley Riches and Iain Burnside on 31st May 2013 at the Ludlow Weekend of English Song in Ludlow Assembly Rooms.

40 Songs-The Sondheim For Singers series is the most comprehensive multi-volume collection of Sondheim songs ever published. Each volume has a different contents list and includes songs in original keys as well as appropriate transpositions. An extensive introductory section featuring plot synopses and comments from Sondheim about his music and shows is also included. This volume is for Baritone/Bass singers and contains 40 songs including Children Will Listen Pretty Women Send In The Clowns and Anyone Can Whistle.