Partitions chant solo

Purcell's I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly, presented for High Voice in the Key of G.

Aria from the Opera 'Le Nozze Di Figaro'.

The third song in the composer's Tagore-inspired 'Gitanjali' cycle (1913).

The Lord's Prayer, scored for medium-low voice with piano accompaniment.

For High Voice and Piano, in the key of B Flat.

A setting of a poem written by Lord Byron for voice and piano.

The hauntingly beautiful spiritual arranged for Voice and Piano by John Jacob Niles.

Rudolph Schirmer's 'Honey Shun' is an unusual song for high voice and piano.

From Rudolph Schirmer's Seven Songs for Voice and Piano, this is a song of a knight who gives up the sword for the love of the travelling life. Suitable for high voice with a range from Middle C to th...

Schirmer's song Ianthe is the pentultimate song from Seven Songs for Voice and Piano. The words and music have a sensual, passionate quality, describing the many attractive qualities of Ianthe.

Rudolph Schirmer's song 'My Heart Is A River' is the final song from Seven Songs for Voice and Piano. It is designed to display a large vocal range - it spans almost two octaves beginning from the G b...

Based on the tune from the Corpus Christi hymn Pange Lingua, this song depicts the shepherds' feelings approaching the manger.

Also wittily subtitled 'Strike till the iron is hot', this is a comic, almost 'nonsense' song based on a poem by Marianne Moore.

Song Number 2 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Song Number 4 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Like Virgil Thomson's opera 'Four Saints in Three Acts', this is a setting of text by Gertrude Stein. Also similarly to 'Pigeons on the Grass Alas' from that opera, it draws musical material from the...

Reduction from the work for Tenor and Orchestra.

Paul Creston's Dance Variations for Soprano and Orchestra is an unusual piece, with a wordless voice taking the place of a melody instrument in a series of challenging variations on a minuet-style the...

Lucia di Lammermoor' was one of the biggest triumphs of Donizetti's career, and remains as his outstanding masterpiece. The libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano based on Sir Walter Scott's nove...

An Opera in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani.

Tchaikovsky wrote 'Eugene Onegin' in 1878, using a libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky based on the epic poem by Pushkin. Flirtatious Olga and shy, bookish Tatyana are sisters, Olga being happily engaged...

Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Hansel And Gretel' actually began life as a short entertainment for a children's birthday party. Humperdinck enjoyed this project so much that he immediately set about turning...

It was 'H. M. S. Pinafore', or 'The Lass that Loved a Sailor' that established Gilbert and Sullivan as a creative force to be reckoned with in British comic theatre. Gilbert's libretto has everything...

After creating eight works for the stage, Gilbert and Sullivan outdid themselves with a macabre farce set in the Far East. It is the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and arguably the most popu...

The Gondoliers' represents a return to the satirical and ebullient Gilbert and Sullivan of 'The Mikado' after the grim Ruddigore and Yeoman of the Guard. Gilbert sets his story in Venice, leaving the...