Elgar was pre-eminently the composer of large forms. Complex, lengthy development of musical ideas was for him a measure of genius. His songs, with the exception of the orchestral cycle Sea Pictures , were not often the vehicles for his most striking ideas. Paradoxically, he was also bedevilled by a fine literally taste. He once told a friend that he felt it better to set the best second-rate poetry to music, for the most immortal verse is music already. Some of his songs are therefore settings of poets now all but forgotten, such as Arthur Salmon and Gilbert Parker: to their verse his music might make a vital addition. Elgar's songs offer authentic Edwardian reflections which we can value now in their own terms. These songs are full of echoes of a master's thoughts - and especially in the songs written for the stage - flashes of his genius. / Chant Et Piano

Seven Songs For Medium Voice-Madeleine Dring (1923-1977) was an English composer and actress. She studied Violin Voice and Composition at the Royal College of Music where her teachers included Ralph Vaughan Williams Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob. Her Vocal works were collected and posthumously published by Thames in the 1990s. Seven Songs for Medium Voice was published in 1993 as Dring Volume 4. It is a wonderful collection of songs with various compositional dates all scored for Medium Voice and Piano accompaniment.

This collection includes all 61 of Benjamin Britten's arrangements of folk songs combining the contents of the seven published books in editions for High and Low Voice. Included are the well-loved traditional tunes Bonny At Morn The Ash Grove The Salley Gardens Greensleeves The Holly And The Ivy and many more. Some of the songs featured in this volume for Medium/Low Voice have never before been transposed. The songs of Volume 6 for Voice and Guitar have been transcribed for Voice and Piano for this edition.

This is the first in a set of three wonderful volumes which comprise the bulk of solo songs which Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. Arranged for Medium Voice and Piano Accompaniment.

Twelve songs for medium/high voice and Piano accompaniment by Arnold Bax. The songs in this wonderful collection were written between 1916 and 1926 and include settings of poetry and texts by some of Britian’s most important and influential writers including: Thomas Hardy A.E. Housman and Robert Herrick. These pieces demonstrate Bax’s ability to perfectly catch the mood of the texts and he compound the emotion with his music.

The second volume of Old American Songs by Aaron Copland for Medium Voice presented here with Piano accompaniment.

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):

Arranged for Medium-Low Voice with Piano accompaniment. Most of the arias in this collection were written in the 1600s and 1700s by composers who were intent on expressing their feelings and entertaining their listeners. They wrote for the present and didn't write many instructions for their performers as they would always be present when their music was performed. However the success of their music transcended their lifetimes and over the years editions have become nothing like their original forms. This edition seeks to return to the composers' original intentions and produce an authoritative and faithful re-production of their works.Includes an accompanying CDof professionally recorded backing tracks.

This volume offers a sampling of fourteen great vocal works from the Romantic era for Medium and Low voice that have long been out of the common consciousness but not been entirely forgotten! Rossini and Donizetti among others wrote songs for everybody from prima donnas to amateurs each with an impressive sensitivity and depth. Editor and mezzo-soprano Patricia Atkins Chiti has drawn from her personal collection of songs many of which have been out of print for more than a century. Italian Art Songs of the Romantic Era contains fourteen fabulous songs a detailed foreword that introduces the Romantic era and the Romanze providing an excellentway for young singers to learn the style of major composers. There is carefully edited text and music an extensive background to each composer and each song translations and even phonetic pronunciation guides for Italian.

The songs of A Garland for de la Mare are vintage Howells in their refinement harmonic subtleties and dreamlike quality. And although the cover says that there are ten songs in this set the songbook comprises thirteen songs including two versions of Before Dawn.Herbert Howells is a giant of 20th century Anglican church music the remainder of whose oeuvre is in the process of gaining new appreciation. He was a sensitive composer for Voice and among the very best of his songs are these settings of verses by Walter de la Mare a personal friend. Howells had frequently discussed the publication of A Garden for de la Mare with Christopher Palmer (author of the major study ofthe composer’s life) but Palmer died prior to publication and Michael Pilkington saw the project through to completion.

Medium/Low Voice Edition-A new edition of art songs by Samuel Barber including the entire contents of the Collected Songs and Ten Early Songs plus many songs never before published with extensive introductory commentary. Thisedition is for low and medium voices.

Hohe Stimme / High Voice-As a continuation of the new Urtext edition of the Schubert lieder Walther Dürr has now edited volume five for high medium and low voices. Volumes 1 to 4 of this edition contain mainly lieder which Schubert himself saw into print (in his own choice and order) and in the fourth volume works from the last two years of his life are included. The lieder in volume 5 onwards are strictly presented in the order of Deutsch?s Thematic Catalogue which means that in principle they are arranged chronologically.The lieder in volume five were composed in the years 1811 to 1814. The first 'Hagars Klage' (D 5) dated 30 March 1811 is also his first complete surviving song. The firsteleven lieder are evidence of his early studies (1811 1813/14). During this period Schubert immersed himself in Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg?s ballads and lieder and wrote Italian arias during his composition lessons with Antonio Salieri. He also composed a single strophic song ('Klaglied' D 23) which the only one of these songs was published shortly after his death in November 1830 as op. 131 3. His apprentice work as it were was the major ballade 'Der Taucher' (D 77) which was composed between 1813 and roughly the beginning of 1815. Probably not by chance his first complete opera ('Des Teufels Lustschloss' D 84) was written at the same time. He also set fourteen poems by Friedrich von Matthisson exploring the principle of the strophic lied.- Excellent new engraving based on the 'New Schubert Edition'- Foreword by Walther Dürr discussing the history the works? compositionand transmission together with a list of sources for each song (Ger/Eng)- English translation of the song texts by Richard WigmoreContents:Hagars Klage D 5 / Leichenfantasie D 7 /Der Vatermörder D 10 / Klaglied op. post. 131 3 D 23 / Misero pargoletto D 42 (high voice only) / Totengräberlied D 44 / Die Schatten D 50 / Verklärung D 59 / Pensa che questo istante D 76 (medium and low voice only) /Der Taucher D 77 / Son fra l?onde D 78 (high voice only) /Adelaide D 95 / Trost. An Elisa D 97 /Erinnerungen D 98 / Andenken D 99 /Geisternähe D 100 / Erinnerung D 101 /Die Betende D 102 / Die Befreier Europas in Paris D 104 /Lied aus der Ferne D 107 (1st version) / Lied aus der Ferne D

This three volume series comprises the bulk of the solo songs which Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. The songs span his whole long career until his death in 1958. The majority are suitable for medium voice.

Philip Heseltine was born in London in 1894. In his short life he won public acclaim for the songs he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Warlock. Undoubtedly he was the composer of some of the finest of all English solo songs remarkable for their intensity memorable tunes and harmonic individuality. This fantastic album features 14 of Warlock's settings of English poems and delightfully convey not only the meaning and rhythm of the words but something of the atmosphere and charm of the period. For Medium Voice and Piano Accompaniment.

A mesmerising collection of songs by English composer Sir C. Hubert H. Parry. Over the entire course of his life he wrote a vast number of works based on English Lyric poems; often concerning Love Romance; and this volume represents just a small portion of his remarkable output. This is the first book in the series and contains settings of songs for Medium Voice with Piano accompaniment.