Partitions difficile pour Chant

Opening simply with a solo voice, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Italian settings of eight poems by Renaissance artist Michelangelo for baritone and piano take both the performers and audience on a strikin...

Bariton und Klavier (linke Hand)

The Greek poetess Sappho wrote her poems, which have survived in fragmentary form, in exile in Sicily in about 600 BC. Full of natural intensity and liveliness, her verses revolve around the condition...

In an all-new set of German art songs, Rihm uses 13 poems of Goethe as the basis for his varied vocal compositions. The set is published in two versions, for tenor and for baritone, and is part of UE'...

In an all-new set of German art songs, Rihm uses 13 poems of Goethe as the basis for his varied vocal compositions. The set is published in two versions, for tenor and for baritone, and is part of UE'...

L'opus 1 de Gideon Klein (1919-1945) fur longtemps considéré comme perdu et ne fut retrouvé qu'en 1990, avec d'autres oeuvres datant de son internement à Theresienstadt.Les lieder ont été composés au...

Cette collection unique en son genre contient une remarquable sélection de mélodies en langue anglaise, écrites par des compositeurs des deux côtés de l'Atlantique. La publication inclut pour la premi...

Ce recueil unique en son genre contient à la fois de nouvelles transcriptions, du matériel resté impublié et quelques pièces qui n'existaient jusqu'à présent que dans des éditions complètes. L'édition...

Michael Tippett's description of what drew him to the longer of W. B. Yeats' two poems on Byzantium gives us a glimpse of what was going through his mind as the fascination of Byzantium as a mode of s...

Gavin Bryars has returned once again to the poetry of George Bruce and the 'Five Songs from Northern Seas' are dedicated to his memory in his centenary year. Bryars describes the five evocative poems:...

Texte d'après la tragédie Antoine et Cléopâtre (acte V, scène 2) de William Shakespeare. Réduction piano par le compositeur. Ce monodrame réunit les moments essentiels de la scène II de l'acte V de la...

Des fragments en allemand et en français de Rilke datant de 1911 à 1921 constituent la base littéraire de cette composition. Reimann voit ici une affinité entre Rilke et Kafka. Le langage tonal n'est...

Sopran und Klavier

Sopran und Klavier

Night-like sounds are explored in a variety of ways in the three parts of this wide-ranging scene. Ornamental and playful, the piano entwines with the singing voice in the first part. In the recitativ...

With his opera 'The Dead Souls' (based on Gogol) and the ballets 'Anna Karenina' (based on Tolstoy), 'The Seagull' and 'Woman with a Little Dog' (both based on Chekov), Shchedrin has brought classic w...

Profound Slavonic emotion and thrilling virtuosity distinguish many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions. Even though he has long since become a citizen of the world, the composer born in Moscow has hel...