Partitions de Compositrices pour chant : Œuvres pour solistes

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

Ernste und ausdrucksstarke Gesänge. Kompositionsauftrag des Wildunger Arbeitskreises für Psychotherapie.

This beautiful art-song collection is names after Phillis Wheatley, America's first female African-American poet, whose poems were an inspiration to George Washington and the other Founding Fathers. T...

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, from 1880-1902. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle to earn a living to support...

Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese explores the finding of a mature love by a woman who wonders what part of her must she sacrifice to the lover and to the world...

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda Ueland's 1938 autobiography. Although Ueland's life was nothing out of the ordinary, the philosophy of her writing is to find the joy in everyday e...

Margaret Songs are a collection of three songs of Margaret Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen's chamber opera, Eric Hermannson's Soul, based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one woman's em...

Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden's memories of Ántonia Shimerda during their shared experiences of the pioneering period...

With a text by the composer, this work was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'.

Scored for solo high voice and piano, I remember sets a text reflecting on the wonder of the natural world and the people who shape our lives. The stirring melody calls to mind the folksong tradition,...

Reginal Wright's emotional and uplifting Crossroad sets Robert Frost's well-known poem 'The road not taken'. A twinkling piano accompaniment supports the voices, and the optional violin duet floats ab...

Make We Merry is an eight-movement piece which sets texts from the 15th to 19th centuries to a variety of choral textures with a highly characterful accompaniment. A vast array of sentiments is depict...

An expressive carol with text altered from the poem Three Kings came a-riding by the famous 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Offprinted from the Christmas cantata A Light in the Stable.

Lucy Walker's thoughtful setting of There is no rose flows between swells of emotion and warm chromatic inflections in the Latin refrains. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

This gentle arrangement for a cappella choir of the well-known fifteenth-century carol conjures a restful but evocatively melancholy atmosphere. The texture is varied by the use of a soprano soloist,...

The piece sets extracts from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and is made up of six choral movements, including a substantial solo role for countertenor. Between t...

für Tenor und Klavier (2000)

Création mondiale le 19 août 2000 à Hanovre, EXPO Lied : Strahl : Marcus Ullmann (ténor), Michael Wendeberg (piano)

Für Sopran und Klavier nach Franz Kafka

À l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance d'Ursula Mamlok (1923 - 2016), Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock publie, en collaboration avec la Fondation Dwight et Ursula Mamlok, une série d'oeuvres non publié...

Five Love Songs are scored for Soprano and Guitar They were composed in 1955, making them one of the composer's earliest published works. They are dedicated to the Soprano Flore Wend and the guitarist...

A Suite O Bairnsangs, poems by Maurice Lindsay. Arranged for high voice and piano. Commissioned for Scottish Festival 1953.

Kaija Saariaho 's Lonh, scored for Soprano Voice and Electronics, was commissioned by the Wien Modern Festival and premiered on the 20th October 1996. The title  Lonh, meaning far away or distant...

Kaija Saariaho's Lonh, scored for Soprano voice and electronics, was commissioned by the Wien Modern Festival and premiered on the 20th October 1996. The title Lonh, meaning far away or distant, is d...