This collection of 18 easy supplementary repertory songs all in English augments selections in Easy Songs for the Beginning Mezzo-Soprano Easy Songs for the Beginning Mezzo-Soprano_Part II and the three volumes of The First Book of Mezzo-Soprano/Alto. Audio recordings of accompaniments can be accessed online by using the unique code inside each book. The audio files can be streamed or downloaded. Contents: Birds in the Night (Sullivan) · Cradle Song (Schubert) · The Forsaken Maid (Wilson) · Hymn to the Night (Campbell-Tipton) · I Have Twelve Oxen (Ireland) · I Will Go with My Father A-ploughing (Quilter) · It Was a Lover and His Lass (Clough-Leighter) · Jeanette and HerLittle Wooden Shoes (Herbert) · Love Is a Sickness Full of Woes (Parker) · O Bid Your Faithful Ariel Fly (Linley) · Should He Upbraid (Bishop) · Spring Comes Laughing (Carew) · Tears (Tchaikovsky) · Two Roses (Gilberté) · Under the Greenwood Tree (Buzzi-Peccia) · The Valley of Laughter (Sanderson) · The Winds Are Calling (Ronald) · Without Thee (Gounod).

This unique and exciting series gives you the chance to learn some of the greatest arias of the Opera tradition with full orchestral backing tracks. A selection of operatic showstoppers have been presented in full notation with concert accompaniments for Piano. Furthermore a professionally recorded CD is included that features the full-scale orchestral arrangement of each aria so you can experience the power and magic of a grand-scale performance. There's even a version of each featuring an established singer so you can hear the piece in full.An excellent rehearsal tool or the ideal way to introduce your voice to the wonders and rigors of the Opera.

Scored for solo countertenor or mezzo soprano. This work was commissioned by the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music. First performed 11th November 1998. The texts of the six brief unaccompanied songs which comprise theSix Caprices are taken from Federico Garcia Lorca's Poema del Cante Jondo (Poems Of The Deep Song). Duration c. 8 minutes.

Ed. E. Battaglia-Nicola Vaccai's Practical Vocal Method (Mezzo-Soprano Baritone) is complete and scrupulous providing an ideal preparation for a certain type of 'pre-Rossinian vocalism' which is attracting renewed interest. This edition is a critical and technical revision of the composer's original work by Elio Battaglia.The completeness and centrality of Vaccai's method is further demonstrated by the practical examples on the accompanying CD. The CD contains a recording of the whole method for both female and male voice.