Once Did I Breathe Another's Breath was commissioned for the 2013 Ludlow Weekend of English Song with funds provided by Finzi Friends and specifically Ernie Kay Brian & Mary Midgley and Adrian & NormaWilliams.The first performance of Once Did I Breathe Another's Breath was given by Ashley Riches and Iain Burnside on 31st May 2013 at the Ludlow Weekend of English Song in Ludlow Assembly Rooms.

‘Eleven-Fifty’ is the fourth of seven separate songs to various poets written byLennox Berkeley in the late 1930s and early 1940s. They were grouped together forconvenience as Opus 14 No. 2.‘The Beacon Barn’ thethird of these songs also has a text by Patrick O’Malleywho according to Tony Scotland was ‘one of the First World War poets whoserved as a private in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers’. ‘Eleven-Fifty’ was composed inApril1938 and is a brief glorification of a high-speed train where the moto perpetuoaccompaniment barely stops. Berkeley admired Honegger bought a copy of thescore of his railway depiction Pacific 231 in 1924 andreviewed enthusiastically an all-Honegger concert conducted by the composer in Paris (‘A Paris Letter’ The MonthlyMusical Record June 1929).

Baritone. This volume contains French operatic arias for baritone from works that opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck was commissioned to compose for the Paris Opéra: ?Iphigénie en Aulide? (1774) | ?Cythère assiégée? (1775) | ?Alceste? (1776) | ?Armide? (1777) | ?Iphigénie en Tauride? (1779). The informative text sections contain a Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic context and a literal English translation of each aria. About the series: Christoph Willibald Gluck: French Operatic Arias. For the first time all the arias from Christoph Willibald Gluck?s French operas are being published in arrangements for voice and piano. This series, a coproduction with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), presents this collection according to voice register in four volumes. With their wealth of arias and informative texts, these volumes offer a rich treasure-trove from works by this major 18th-century opera composer for use in voice lessons, auditions and recitals.

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan produced several of the most popular operas and operettas of all time. Sullivan's music was always memorable and tuneful while Gilbert's libretti had both wit and pathos. This book contains several Gilbert and Sullivan selections for the Baritone/Bass singer including 'When You're Lying Awake with a Dismal Headache' and 'I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General' and comes with access to online recordings of the Piano accompaniments from the book for those occasions when a pianist cannot be found for practice!

Par GREGSON EDWARD. The five song set the texts As I pass at dusk (Robert Kent), The day is gone (John Keats), Carol (C Day Lewis), Come live with me (C Day Lewis), and To my brother (Siegfried Sassoon). Also available for Mezzo-Soprano, or High Voice. / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Baryton et Piano

40 Songs-The Sondheim For Singers series is the most comprehensive multi-volume collection of Sondheim songs ever published. Each volume has a different contents list and includes songs in original keys as well as appropriate transpositions. An extensive introductory section featuring plot synopses and comments from Sondheim about his music and shows is also included. This volume is for Baritone/Bass singers and contains 40 songs including Children Will Listen Pretty Women Send In The Clowns and Anyone Can Whistle.

Par FRANCES-HOAD CHERYL. everything grows extravagantly was co-commissioned by Oxford Lieder and the Oxford Botanic Garden