Par BOLCOM WILLIAM / WEINSTEIN ARNOLD. Previously available in separate volumes, the original 24 Cabaret Songs have been collected together for the first time in this new complete edition. Includes bios, notes from the composer, and Weinstein's article What Is Cabaret Song?/ Recueil / Voix Moyenne et Piano

20 Melodies Voix Moyenne Et Piano. Par HAHN. Contents: Quand la nuit n'est pas étoilée - Cantique - La Délaissée - La Chère Blessure - Théone - Le souvenir d'voir Cante - Quand je fus pris au pavillon - Chanson au bord de la fontaine - Sur l'eau - Fumée - Le printemps - Dans la nuit - Les fontaines - À Chloris - Le Rossignol des lilas - À nos morts ignorés - Ma jeunesse - Le plus beau présent - Puisque j'ai mis ma lèvre - La douce paix As Proust liked to remind us, Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) had a clear voice that was really appreciated in Paris at the time: he believed Hahn's mouth was a genius music instrument that was letting the most beautiful, sad yet warm voice out when he was singing. Following the first volume written in 1986, Melodies Volume 2 comprises twenty exciting songs for Voice with Piano Accompaniment, composed by Reynaldo Hahn. These twenty melodies are: Quand la nuit n'est pas etoilee & Cantique - La Delaissee - La chère blessure & Theone - Le souvenir d'voir Cante-Quand je fus pris au pavillon - Chanson au bord de la fontaine - Sur l'eau & Fumee - Le printemps - Dans la nuit - Les fontaines - A Chloris - Le rossignol des lilas - A nos morts ignores - Ma jeunesse - Le plus beau present - Puisque j'ai mis ma lèvre - La douce paix / Niveau : Moyen / Répertoire d'Examen / Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano

20 Melodies Voix Moyenne Et Piano-As Proust liked to remind us Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) had a clear voice that was really appreciated in Paris at the time: he believed Hahn’s mouth was a genius music instrument that was letting the most beautiful sad yet warm voice out when he was singing. Following the first volume written in 1986 Melodies Volume 2 comprises twenty exciting songs for Voice with Piano Accompaniment composed by Reynaldo Hahn. These twenty melodies are: Quand la nuit n'est pas étoilée – Cantique - La Délaissée - La chère blessure – Théone - Le souvenir d'voir Cante-Quand je fus pris au pavillon - Chanson au bord de la fontaine - Sur l'eau – Fumée - Le printemps - Dans la nuit - Les fontaines - A Chloris - Le rossignol des lilas - A nos morts ignorés - Ma jeunesse - Le plus beau présent - Puisque j'ai mis ma lèvre - La douce paix

As a continuation of the new Urtext edition of the Schubert lieder, Walther Dürr has now edited volume five for high, medium and low voices. Volumes 1 to 4 of this edition contain mainly lieder which Schubert himself saw into print (in his own choice and order) and in the fourth volume works from the last two years of his life are included. The lieder in volume 5 onwards are strictly presented in the order of Deutsch's Thematic Catalogue which means that in principle they are arranged chronologically. The lieder in volume five were composed in the years 1811 to 1814. The first - 'Hagars Klage' (D 5), dated 30 March 1811 - is also his first complete surviving song. The first eleven lieder are evidence of his early studies (1811-1813/14). During this period Schubert immersed himself in Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg's ballads and lieder and wrote Italian arias during his composition lessons with Antonio Salieri. He also composed a single strophic song ('Klaglied', D 23), which - the only one of these songs - was published shortly after his death in November 1830 as op. 131, 3. His apprentice work, as it were, was the major ballade 'Der Taucher' (D 77) which was composed between 1813 and roughly the beginning of 1815. Probably not by chance, his first complete opera ('Des Teufels Lustschloss', D 84) was written at the same time. He also set fourteen poems by Friedrich von Matthisson exploring the principle of the strophic lied. - Excellent new engraving based on the 'New Schubert Edition'- Foreword by Walther Dürr discussing the history the works' composition and transmission, together with a list of sources for each song (Ger/Eng)- English translation of the song texts by Richard WigmoreContents:Hagars Klage, D 5 / Leichenfantasie, D 7 /Der Vatermörder, D 10 / Klaglied, op. post. 131, 3 - D 23 / Misero pargoletto, D 42 (high voice only) / Totengräberlied, D 44 / Die Schatten, D 50 / Verklärung, D 59 / Pensa che questo istante, D 76 (medium and low voice only) /Der Taucher, D 77 / Son fra l'onde, D 78 (high voice only) /Adelaide, D 95 / Trost. An Elisa, D 97 /Erinnerungen, D 98 / Andenken, D 99 /Geisternähe, D 100 / Erinnerung, D 101 /Die Betende, D 102 / Die Befreier Europas in Paris, D 104 /Lied aus der Ferne, D 107 (1st version) / Lied aus der Ferne, D 107 (2nd version) / Der Abend, D 108 / Lied der Liebe, D 109 /Romanze, D 114 (1st version) / Romanze, D 114 (2nd version) /An Laura (als sie Klopstocks Auferstehungslied sang), D 115 / Der Geistertanz, D 116 /Appendix (lower transpositions of the songs only in high ranges):Die Schatten, D 50 / Adelaide, D 95 / Voix Moyenne(s)

Par POULENC FRANCIS. Calligrammes is a set of seven melodies by Francis Poulenc based on poems by Guillaume Appolinaire. The overall piece lasts 10 and a half minutes and the book includes the score for Voice and Piano. Each work is dedicated to a different person and has its own story: I. L'Espionne / The Spy & 1'32 II. Mutation / Mutation & 0‘ 40 III. Vers le Sud / Toward the South & 1'40 IV. Il pleut / It's raining & 1' V. La grâce exilee / Grace in exil & 0'28 VI. Aussi bien que lescigales / As well as crickets & 1'40 VII. Voyage / Travel & 2'20 Each piece can be work on its own or the whole book can be played at once. Francis Poulenc is French composer and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces, Operas ('Dialogues des Carmelites'), ballets ('The does') as well as some Orchestral works./ Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano

Lennox Berkeley's I Carry Your Heart With Me for medium Voice and Piano.'Sometime in 1970 I gave Lennox Berkeley a volume of poems by the American poet E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) since mysister Meriel Dickinson and I were commissioning him towrite a song-cycle for a whole programme of settings of Cummings. At the time he became involved with Chinese poetry and we were delighted with the Chinese Songs Op. 78.However a year or so later in July 1972 Berkeley did set a poem by Cummings. This was ‘i carry your heart with me’ from 95 Poems (1958) and he dedicated the song to the countertenorTay Cheng Jim.The manuscript leavesfew questions. Obviously the pedal sustains the sextuplet and triplet groups at the start and finish. It is possible that all the As in bar 32 of the left hand piano part should be flat although there are clashes like thiselsewhere. A few phrase-marks have been added on existing patterns.' - Peter Dickinson

Par BLANCHARD. La Mort du Roitelet; Une Chanson qui va vous mettre en rire; Les Marins; Danse des Glaives; Berceuse; Gavotte de Maë l-Carhaix; Gavotte de Poullaouen (French and Breton text)/ Répertoire / Voix Moyenne et Piano

Pierre Garnier débute en poésie au sein de l'Ecole de Rochefort sous l'oeil de Jean Rousselot. Il fonde ensuite la revue 'Les Lettres', pivot de la poésie spatiale, mouvement qu'il fonde avec sa femme Ilse Garnier. Il cultive une véritable passion pour les oiseaux, comme dans la 3e mélodie très justement intitulée 'Oiseaux'. Isabelle Aboulker a ici mis en musique trois poèmes, écrivant comme à son habitude pour la voix avec une grande maîtrise. Le style y est spontané, la mélodie fluide, l'harmonie concise, dans la plus parfaite tradition française. / Voix Moyennes Et Piano

The songs of A Garland for de la Mare are vintage Howells in their refinement harmonic subtleties and dreamlike quality. And although the cover says that there are ten songs in this set the songbook comprises thirteen songs including two versions of Before Dawn.Herbert Howells is a giant of 20th century Anglican church music the remainder of whose oeuvre is in the process of gaining new appreciation. He was a sensitive composer for Voice and among the very best of his songs are these settings of verses by Walter de la Mare a personal friend. Howells had frequently discussed the publication of A Garden for de la Mare with Christopher Palmer (author of the major study ofthe composer’s life) but Palmer died prior to publication and Michael Pilkington saw the project through to completion.

'When Gabriel Fauré was appointed Director of the Paris Conservatoire in 1905, one of his most pressing concerns - and first achievements - was a complete reform of the teaching of singing. He was determined to introduce mandatory study of art song, along with 'exercises developing vocal suppleness, articulation, and voice placement and production, which are the basis of singing teaching'. To this end, between 1906 and 1916 he composed a substantial body of accompanied vocalises for use in the Conservatoire's sight-singing examinations. For a century these vocalises - all but one now held in the Archives nationales de France in Paris - have lain unknown to the musical world at large. Their first publication here marks a major event for the vocal teaching repertoire (as well as some entrancing music)- a marvellous resource of skilfully devised vocal exercises ranging from elementary to advanced virtuoso level, all from one of history's greatest song composers.'- Roy Howat / Voix Et Piano

La Mort du Roitelet; Une Chanson qui va vous mettre en rire; Les Marins; Danse des Glaives; Berceuse; Gavotte de Maël-Carhaix; Gavotte de Poullaouen (French and Breton text)

Philip Stone is an actor of long and wide experience. In cinema he has worked with distinguished directors such as Stanley Kubrick Lindsay Anderson and Stephen Spielburg.he has also been a familiar face on our televisions for the past thirty years as well. Down those years he's always had a quiet ability to compose songs-words and music. They were written en passant in various places: in a tubercular chalet on the shores of Morecambe Bay - in a back room in Brixton - in a bedroom in Leeds - in a friend's house in St John's Wood. Some of these songs feature in his one-man show Beginnings and Endings and these eight are a varied example of that ability.