Baritone Voice and Piano
- Intermediate
SKU:
FP.FMJ02
Composed by
John Manduell. Sheet
Music and Books. Songs
for baritone voice and
piano, inspired by Sir
John Manduell’s
long-standing love of
French renaissance verse.
Classical. Vocal Score.
Forsyths Publications
#FMJ02. Published by
Forsyths Publications
(FP.FMJ02).
ISBN
9790570503896.
A
wonderfully balanced and
yet contrasting set of
songs for baritone voice
and piano, inspired by
Sir John
Manduell’s
long-standing love of
French renaissance
verse.
In the
first, perhaps the most
often quoted of Ronsard's
poems, the poet invites
young Mignonne to come
and look at the purple
rose and to realise that
her beauty like the
rose's will fade all too
soon. Du Bellary's poem
is redolent of late
summer heat and haze as
the thresher of the title
calmly pursues his work.
The Marot is a brief
exercise in courteous
mockery as the poet
chides his ailing lady
upon her gastronomic
self-indulgence and warns
her of the inevitable
consequences upon her
figure.
Finally
published in 2013, Trois
Chansons is one of the of
the composer’s
earliest surviving works,
written while he was
studying with the late
Sir Lennox Berkely as a
postgraduate student at
the Royal Academy of
Music. The first
performance was given by
Beverley Humphreys at the
Royal Academy of Music in
1956.
