SKU: PR.11641600S
ISBN 9781491134689. UPC: 680160685271. English. Text: Ryan Carson.
Among the most intriguing of this pioneering American composer’s works, Three Songs on poems of Carl Sandburg is scored for Contralto with Oboe, Percussion, and Piano, plus an optional orchestra. The study score includes an essay introducing Crawford’s unique work in historical contexts as she sought a new musical language accessible to the many, while remaining uncompromisingly avant-garde.
SKU: HL.14034820
ISBN 9781846099199. 8.25x11.75x0.19 inches. English.
Ian Venables' setting of four poems of A.E. Housman originally scored for tenor solo, string quartet and piano, here arranged for tenor and piano. Lyrical pieces of intermediate difficulty, sometimes elegiac, sometimes angry. Written in 2004 but very much in the English song tradition of Finzi, Gurney and Warlock these are therefore ideal recital companions to those composers.
SKU: HL.14030878
ISBN 9780853608370. 8.75x11.75x0.726 inches.
Dedicated to all my Dead Ones, those whose memory and strength still lingers on this side of the border. -Aulis Sallinen The vocal score to Sallinen's 1995 work, written to requiem poems by Lassi Nummi for baritone and orchestra.
SKU: HL.14023655
ISBN 9780711977457. 9.0x12.0x0.245 inches.
This cycle of settings of poems by Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper. The texts are taken from the following collections: 'Chanson einer Dame im Schatten' and 'Corona' from Mohn und Gedachtnis(1952), 'Nachtlich geschurzt' from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (1955), 'Blume' from Sprachgitter (1959), and 'Es war Erde in ihnen' and 'Psalm' from Die Niemandsrose of 1963. The settings of 'Corona' and 'Blume' both introduce an eight-bar chord sequence derived from Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4 (the introduction to which was used by Gorecki in his Symphony No.3). Piano and voice version written in 1997 at the request of Hilary Summers.
SKU: HL.14023635
ISBN 9780711930124. UPC: 884088444143. 12.0x9.0x0.347 inches.
For Low Female Voice And Ensemble. This cycle of settings of poems by Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper. The texts are taken from the following collections: 'Chanson einer Dame im Schatten' and 'Corona' from Mohn und Gedachtnis (1952), 'Nachtlich geschurzt' from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (1955), 'Blume' from Sprachgitter (1959), and 'Es war Erde in ihnen' and 'Psalm' from Die Niemandsrose of 1963. The settings of 'Corona' and 'Blume' both introduce an eight-bar chord sequence derived from Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4 (the introduction to which was used by Gorecki in his Symphony No.3).
SKU: BT.PMC3865
The Two Songs on American Poems were composed in late May and early June of 2011 by candlelight at my rustic waterfront cabin on a remote island off the northwest coast of Washington State. It was in this locale that I havecompleted a number of works over the years, including the Lux Aeterna, O Magnum Mysterium, Nocturnes, Canticle/O Vos Omnes and others. Prayer was written in memory of Michael Jasper Gioia, Dana and Mary Gioia's infant son, whosebrief life was tragically ended by SIDS.Mr. Gioia served as Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003-2010 and has authored several books of poems, numerous anthologies, articles, essays and two opera libretti. Amonghis many awards are the American Book Award and Presidential Citizens Medal. He currently holds the Judge Widney Chair of Poetry and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Sure on this Shining Night was originallycomposed as a choral piece, the third movement of my Nocturnes on poems by Rilke, Neruda and Agee. Rod Gilfry, an international star of opera, recital and musical theater, premiered the mixed duet version with his daughter, Carin,in 2009. He is Professor of Vocal Studies at the USC Thornton School of Music. Both he and Mr. Gioia are national treasures. The Two Songs are designed as a pair but may be sung independently - when paired, Sure On This ShiningNight should begin immediatelyfollowing the final, sustained chord of Prayer with no break in between the songs. Both of these songs, premiered by Mr. Gilfry accompanied by the composer at a USC Visions & Voices tribute to DanaGioia on September 27, 2011, have their roots in the American musical theater and should be sung as such.
SKU: BT.ALHE29030
French.
Poulenc's five songs, Poems of Ronsard were composed in 1925 during the post-war euphoria. The cycle is essential to aspiring, advanced vocalists of the French art song. Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was a highly prolific composer,and remains popular to this day. Poems of Ronsard was composed towards the beginning of the composer's career, based on poems by prolific French poet, Pierre de Ronsard. Poems of Ronsard is made up of five songs which alternatebetween lively and slow tempos - 1) Attributes, 2) The Tomb, 3) Ballet, 4) I only have the Bones, and 5) On his page. As a song cycle with much variation, Poulenc's Poems of Ronsard is an exciting addition to the Vocal repertoire.
SKU: HL.48187332
UPC: 888680848415. 9x12 inches.
“Poulenc's five songs, Poems of Ronsard were composed in 1925 during the post-war euphoria. The cycle is essential to aspiring, advanced vocalists of the French art song. Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was a highly prolific composer, and remains popular to this day. Poems of Ronsard was composed towards the beginning of the composer's career, based on poems by prolific French poet, Pierre de Ronsard. Poems of Ronsard is made up of five songs which alternate between lively and slow tempos; 1) Attributes, 2) The Tomb, 3) Ballet, 4) I only have the Bones, and 5) On his page. As a song cycle with much variation, Poulenc's Poems of Ronsard is an exciting addition to the Vocal repertoire.&rdquo.
SKU: BT.SY-2909
German-English.
With appealing melodies that would be right at home in catchy pop songs, Giuseppe Di Girolamoâ??s Guitar Poems indulges in the overwhelming beauty of the sound of the acoustic guitar. This publication contains all twelve pieces from Letters for You, supplemented by eight newly-composed titles that complete the collection. The pieces are presented progressively and contain comprehensive fingerings to make them as technically accessible as possible. Guitar Poems also includes first-rate demo recordings of all the pieces, performed especially for this edition by the young concert guitarist and international prize-winner Julia Trintschuk.Man schwelgt in der ganzen Klangschönheit der akustischen Gitarre und in eingängigen Melodien, die aus guten Pop-Songs stammen könnten: Das ist Guitar Poems von Giuseppe Di Girolamo. Die Ausgabe enthält sämtliche zwölf Stücke aus Letters for You, ergänzt um acht neu komponierte Titel, welche die Sammlung ideal abrunden. Alle Stücke wurden progressiv angeordnet und mit Fingersätzen versehen, um sie technisch noch leichter zugänglich zu machen. Ein zusätzliches Bonbon von Guitar Poems sind die erstklassigen Demo-Aufnahmen aller Stücke, die von der jungen Konzertgitarristin und mehrfachen internationalen Preisträgerin Julia Trintschuk eigens für diese Ausgabe eingespielt wurden.
SKU: HL.14010207
ISBN 9780711924925. UPC: 196288152422. 9.0x12.0x0.306 inches.
Elias: I first came across Irina Ratushinskaya's poetry when the collection 'No, I'm Not Afraid' was published in England in early May 1986. The poems, the various circumstances in which they were written and the poet's integrity, commitment and appalling situation (she was still imprisoned) all had a tremendous impact upon me. I was drawn inexorably into the world she describes so vividly. The powerful imagery of resistance, the acceptance of shattering realities and the fantasies of different kinds of escape made poetry of truly universal significance and urgency, and the idea of a setting for voice and large orchestra followed immediately. Each of the settings (in Russian) is self-contained and quite different in mood and orchestration. However, I consider the songs as one piece, and the whole cycle is performed without a break. All the basic musical material, themes and motifs for the entire work are stated in the first few pages, and the order of the poems was chosen to provide an overall musical and dramatic shape that attempts to link them together and to reflect more than the immediate meaning of the individual poems.
SKU: HL.49029740
ISBN 9790220131844. UPC: 884088615185. 9.0x12.0x0.068 inches. German.
Alexander Goehr's Warngedichte (Warning Poems) are settings of poems of the same name by a poet and friend of the composer Erich Fried. Composed in 1967, this new edition brings the work to new performers at a time when many young performers are discovering and taking up Goehr's music.
SKU: HL.50606905
ISBN 9798350122176. UPC: 196288202059.
Sofia Gubaidulina took Christian Morgenstern’s collection of poems “Gallow Songs†as the starting point for her own song cycle. Gubaidulina adapted 15 of Morgenstern’s seemingly childlike, formally simple poems, which are full of linguistic playfulness, for mezzo-soprano, double bass and percussion. In her settings, the composer subtly explores the ambiguities of Morgenstern’s poems and transforms their grotesque imagery into unique miniatures of sound. 14 of these songs are also available in a version for mezzo-soprano, flute, double bass, bayan and percussion.
SKU: PR.114414000
UPC: 680160590315. Text: David C. Manfredi; Rose Keady; Powell, Jr., Jeffrey; Mary Gardner; David Forest Hitchcock. Mary Gardner, Jeffrey Powell, David Hitchcock, David Manfredi, Rose Keady. Poems by David Forest Hitchcock, Mary Gardner, David C. Manfredi, Rose Keady, and Jeffrey Powell, Jr.
SUMMER SONGS was written for the 30th anniversary of the Skaneateles Music Festival in central New York state. It began as a set of songs using poetry by several writers in that region to be accompanied by a small chamber group of instruments. Eventually the work transformed into something more intriguing to me: a suite of instrumental movements that “comment†on the individual poems which are rst narrated, but not sung.
SKU: FG.55011-699-3
The visionary poems by L. Onerva (1882-1972) have made her the poet of composers. Kuusisto follows the ecstasy and despair, prayer and profanity with a clear vision in Seven songs to poems by L. Onerva (2001/2007).
SKU: AP.36-M174891
UPC: 660355078255. English.
Reprint edition of Four Poems for Voice, Viola and Piano (Quatre poèmes pour voix, alto et piano), Op. 5, written by Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) and published in 1904. The first poem was written by Charles Baudelaire while the last three were written by Paul Verlaine. Songs: 1. La Cloche fêlée; 2. Dansons la giguel; 3. Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois; 4. Sérénade. An English translation by Henry G. Chapman of each of the poems is included.
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