This landmark series collects compelling useful singer-friendly arias from a distinctly American opera tradition. Each volume includes information about every opera and an aria plot note. A majority of the music in the fourvolumes has never before been available outside of the opera vocal scores and some arias in the series have never been in print at all before now. Most arias are appropriate for college-level singers. Composers such as SamuelBarber William Bolcom Douglas Moore Virgil Thomson and Gian Carlo Menotti are well represented. Additionally arias are included from important works such as Regina A Streetcar Named Desire The Ghosts of Versailles TheGreat Gatsby Little Women and many others. Stephen Sondheim graciously agreed to adapt new aria editions of two pieces from Sweeney Todd for the series: ?The Contest? in the Tenor volume and?Epiphany? in the Baritone/Bass edition.A diverse selection of Arias from Operas by American composers for Soprano and Piano. Includes works by Gian Carlo Menotti Samuel Barber Kirke Mecham and Thomas Pastieri.

10 Galgenlieder - Version for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano by Anders Brødsgaard (2015). Lyrics by the German poet Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914).

You And I And Amyas 1 was expertly composed by Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgree in 2013.Pelle is known for his very simplistic approach to life and in turn his music. That said he is a very accomplished composer and was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1980 for his piece Symfoni/Antifoni.

A suite of two lullabies for two female voices and Piano by Arvo Part written in 2002.

Lenaustemninger / Lenau Moods for Mezzo-Soprano and String Quartet was composed by Rued Langgaard in 1917 (BVN 138). Text by Thor Lange. Critical edition by Bendt Viinholt Nielsen / The Rued Langgaard Edition.

In Bright Mass With Canons the canonical motifs are present right from the beginning and carry through almost every bar of the work.There are echoes of early English Choral writing and abstracted sections with flurries of sound interspersed with more Choral writing all in the most modern idioms. Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who at 32 is the youngest composer ever to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His oeuvre includes two operas and many solo pieces and works for small ensemble Orchestra and Chorus and he has collaborated with artists such as PhilipGlass Björk and Sigur Rós.In the December 2014 edition of Organists' Review Christopher Maxim writes that 'the vocal writing frequently evokes Renaissance polyphony' and 'the language is fresh and contemporary with much zest being added by the organ part.'

Trois Melodies by Erik Satie is made up of 3 beautiful movements; La statue de bronze Daphénéo and Le chapelier. Arranged for SATB Choir with accompanying Oboe by Jørgen Jersild.

Andrea Bocelli - Verdi. A selection of arias from the operas of Verdi, arranged for piano and solo voice. Selected by Andrea Bocelli, incuding arias from operas such as La Traviata, Rigoletto and Aida.

Olof Palme is a Choral piece for SATB Choir by Bent Lorentzen (1986). Won the 1st Prize in the ' Internationaler Kompositions-Wettbewerb für Chormusik' in Spittal Austria in 1997.