Song Album For Medium Voice And Piano

Medium High Voice-Medium High Voice. Collection of 21 songs including interesting notes about each from the composer. Contents: Afternoon on a Hill · Air · An Old Fashioned Song · Coyotes · Fewer Words · A Horse With Wings · I Am Cherry Alive · Janet Underneath the Roses · The Lake Isle Of Innisfree · My Sister's New Red Hat · Once I Was · Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) · The Red Dress · Souvenir · Sweet Song · Sycamore Trees · The Special Picnic · The Spring and the Fall · What Shall We Remember' · White Haired Woman · Will There Really Be a Morning'

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

10 Arias from 7 Operas-10 arias: Amelia al ballo: Vola intanto l'ora insonne ? The Consul: The Foreign Woman's Aria ? To this we've come ? The Labyrinth: The Bride's Song ? The Medium: The Black Swan;Monica's Waltz ? The Old Maid and the Thief: Steal me sweet thief ? The Saint of Bleecker Street: Oh sweet Jesus; Be good to her ? The Telephone: Hello! Oh Margaret it's you.

Hardback-This volume contains newly edited versions of all William Walton's songs for voice and piano together with Anon in Love for voice and guitar and songs from radio plays. It also includes the first publication of the scores of the orchestral versions of Anon in Love and A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table.William Walton wrote songs throughout his life the first 'Tell me where is Fancy bred?' written when he was a chorister at Christ Church Oxford the last A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table a song-cycle for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf written in the early 1960s. They all reveal his earfor word-setting an imaginative response to the text and an ability to conjure striking musical images from his chosen material.Shakespeare: Tell me where is Fancy bred?Shakespeare: Tell me where is Fancy bred? - arr. pianoFour Swinburne Songs1. Child's Song2. Song3. A Lyke-wake Song4. The WindsWilliam Drummond: TritonsThree Songs to poems by Edith Sitwell1. Daphne2. Through Gilded Trellises3. Old Sir FaulkShakespeare: Under the Greenwood Tree - low voiceShakespeare: Under the Greenwood Tree - medium voiceLouis MacNeice: Beatriz's SongLouis MacNeice: Beatriz's Song - arr. pianoAnon.: Anon. in Love1. Fain would I change that note2. O stay sweet love3. Lady when I behold the roses4. My Love in her attire5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale6. To couple is a customA Song for the Lord Mayor's TableThomas Jordan: 1. The Lord Mayor's TableWordsworth: 2. Glide GentlyArley: 3. Wapping Old StairsBlake: 4. Holy ThursdayCharles Morris: 5. The ContrastAnon.: 6. RhymeAnon.: Anon. in Love - orchestral version1. Fain would I change that note2. O stay sweet love3. Lady when I behold the roses4. My Love in her attire5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale6. To couple is a customA Song for the Lord

Richard Strauss' Song Album 1 for Medium Voice with Piano accompaniment with English words by John Bernhoff.

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.

Two wonderful English Folksongs; I Will Give My Love An Apple and The Brisk Young Widow beautifully arranged for Medium Voice and Piano accompaniment by Herbert Howells.

Song cycle for medium voice and piano based upon the poetry of Ivor Gurney and Leonard Clark. A set of pieces very much in the English lyrical vocal writing tradition of Butterworth Ireland and of course Gurney.'The Pine Boughs Past Music is a song cycle baseed upon poetry associated with Gloucester and was commissioned to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the Gloucester Music Society. Having purposefully sought inspiration from a wide array of Gloucester poets from Henley to Harvey I finally found inspiration in the poetry of Ivor Gurney whose work is so saturated with the Gloucestershire landscape. In his poetry Idiscovered the essential element I needed to bind the cycle together: the eternal backdrop of nature upon which the poet's thoughts are played out.It would have been quite easy to conclude the set with another poem by Ivor Gurney. However it was to Leonard Clark I turned. The title of his summative poem speaks for itself 'In Memoriam: Ivor Gurney': a haunting elegy that pays tribute to Gurney's everlasting memory.'                                 - Ian VenablesFirst performed on April 15th 2010 at St Mary-de-Lode Gloucester performed by Roderick Williams (Baritone) and Andrew West (Pianist).Commissioned by Christine Talbot-Cooper to celebrate the Gloucester Music Society's eightieth anniversary.