Gabriel Faure: 30 Songs for Voice and Piano (High)

A superb collection of 30 songs by Gabriel Faure arranged here for High Voice with Piano accompaniment as edited and fingered by Sergius Kagen.

Selected and graded for the developing voice. Carefully chosen by Shirley Leah, this series is especially for use by singing teachers, students, and amateur performers. Includes works by Falla, Faure, Giordiani, Greig, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Munro, Nielsen, Purcell, Schubert, Wolf. / Classique / Partition /

Description The most important religious songs of the past 250 years appear in this collection, a treasury of sacred songs known and loved by singers and listeners at home, in church, and in concert. This compilation includes settings of Ave Maria, Ave Verum Corpus and Panis Angelicus. Songlist Agnus Dei [Bizet, Georges] And God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (The Light Of The World) [Sullivan, Arthur] Ave Maria [Bach, Johann Sebastian] [Gounod, Charles] Ave Maria [Franck, Cesar] Ave Maria Op.52 No.6 [Schubert, Franz] Ave Verum Corpus [Chausson, Ernest] Ave Verum Corpus K.618 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Cantique De Jean Racine [Faure, Gabriel] Contentment [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] En Priere [Faure, Gabriel] Hosanna [Granier, Jules] Jerusalem [Parry, Hubert] Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Cantata BWV 147) Kol Nidre La Procession [Franck, Cesar] Le Crucifix [Faure, Jean-Baptiste] Le Sommeil De L'enfant Jesus [Busser, Henri] Litany For All Souls' Day [Schubert, Franz] My Heart Ever Faithful [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Nazareth [Gounod, Charles] No Candle Was There And No Fire [Lehman, Liza] Noel [Holmes, Augusta] O Divine Redeemer [Gounod, Charles] O For The Wings Of A Dove [Mendelssohn, Felix] O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel) [Adam, Adolphe] Panis Angelicus [Charpentier, Marc Antoine] Panis Angelicus [Franck, Cesar] Pie Jesu (Requiem) [Faure, Gabriel] Pieta, Signore [Stradella, Alessandro] Preghiera [Rossini, Gioacchino] Ring Out, Wild Bells [Gounod, Charles] Sleeping Christ Child [Wolf, Hugo] Tantum Ergo [Franck, Cesar] Tantum Ergo [Vierne, Louis] The Heavens Declare [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] The Holy City [Adams, Stephen] The Lost Chord [Sullivan, Arthur] The Palms [Faure, Jean-baptiste] The Virgin's Slumber-song [Reger, Max] There Is A Green Hill Far Away [Gounod, Charles] To Thee, My God [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Selected Songs chosen by Francois Le Roux-Widely acclaimed by music lovers for over a century Selected Songs of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) are here collected into an anthology complete with an audio version in the form of a download card. Excerpted from the 1st collection published in 1879 Au bord de l’eau and Ici bas bestow an aura of internal reverie on Sully Prudhomme’s simple poems made palp­able by the harmonic refinement and vocal fluidity that constitutes the very essence of Faurean charm.    Several vocal pages selected in the 2nd volume (1897) continue to be favourites: Les Rosesd’Ispahan restored to their dreamy stillness Les Berceaux whose oscillation evokes the swaying of boats and the very nostalgic Clair de lune in which Verlaine’s words set to music for the first time inspired Fauré to write what would become one of his masterpieces: La Bonne Chanson.    From this cycle drunk on lovelorn lyricism the collection retains Puisque l’aube grandit an exalted melody if there ever was one and La lune blanche luit dans les bois a nocturnal landscape in F sharp major – two pearls that distil the same mystery of solace.

This title is taken from the compilation French Songs And Choruses For Mixed-Voice Choir (NOV165198) While not as overtly demanding as Apres un reve perhaps the most difficult of Faure's songs this composition requires not only a sense of line and of delicacy but rarely supplies the exact pitch to the singer before he or she embarks on the highly exposed vocal lines. The accompaniment often does supply the pitch right after the singer which makes it easy for the singer to correct any misteps--and for the audience to notice problems. The accompaniment is typical Faure with almost constant use of arpeggios and almost no heavychords giving the feeling of transparency that characterizes so many of his songs. The vocal lines are equally graceful and typically Faure in flowing descending phrases.