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O Ravishing Delight a song for Soprano and Piano by Thomas Arne, arranged by William H. Cummings.

A short (45 min) operatic work by Kurt Weill written primarily for amateur groups to perform - it is adaptable to several combinations of singers and instruments. Drawing on material from folk songs,...

Selected Songs For Voice And Piano is a superb collection of 25 exquisite melodies spotlighting the work of Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899). All reproduced from authoritative sources, these songs take t...

The complete Vocal Score of this Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.

This wonderful new American opera, based on the unforgettable Tennessee Williams play, has been broadcast around the world and recorded live on Deutsche Grammaphon, and it's been a big hit ever since...

Gustav Holst has earned a place among the most revered of late 19th and early 20th century composers and is best known for his enduring Orchestral suite The Planets. But before that great work, in his...

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...

First performed in 1950 at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia, The Consul was a phenomenally successful opera dealing with 20th century bureaucracy and socio-political issues. It is set in a totalit...

A song-cycle for Soprano voice and Piano, based on six poems by Emily Dickinson. Leon Kirchner's music is highly original, very chromatic, usually in a linear fashion, and frequently features irregula...

For Voice and Piano. The Sea Is Between Us is a short song with Hebrew text by the composer.

A setting texts by Sylvia Plath, this 1988 work is for Soprano and Mezzo Soprano voices. Commissioned for the 1988 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. A cycle of five duets, the texts originate...

Sound / Sight - Four poems by Les Murray - was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2000-2001. For Mixed Choir SATB (16 voices).

Three Stones for female Voice was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2006. Dedicated Lore Lixenberg. Text: Anon. Programme note: 'Three stones is written on request by Lore Lixenberg to whom the little piec...

Christina Rossetti's poem The Birthday, or My Heart is Like a Singing Bird, was published in 1857 and was the subject of at least a dozen musical settings before Hubert Parry. Parry had developed the...

Composer, performer and arranger Richard Rodney Bennett was internationally respected for his serious music and many award-winning film scores (Murder on the Orient Express, Nicholas and Alexandra) as...

Conçu pour ceux qui en sont aux stades avancés de l'étude du théâtre musical, ce manuel fait partie d'une série progressive de dix manuels, principalement destinés aux candidats qui envisagent de pass...

I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1997. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the “Secret Political Police” which have been arranged (...

The song cycle 'E las culurs dals tuns' ('And the colours of sounds') was composed in 2017 to a commission by the Summer Music Days festival in Hitzacker. The cycle in twelve parts is a setting of Rom...

The birthday' is full of joy (the first line is 'My heart is like a singing bird') and the prizewinning 'Little lamb' is thoughtful.