Partitions pour Piano et Voix : Tous styles et registres

The Song of the Coralroot Orchid, written in 1988 for Frances Ann Brooks for a concert in Putney - and revised in 2012 - was the fifteenth to be written in a projected series of musical portraits of t...

Five of W.H.Auden's poems on the theme of 'love' set to music by Tom Cunningham for voice and piano. Due to the nature of Auden's texts, these settings are more suited to an adult performer and audien...

A selection of seven songs from the chamber opera The Okavango Macbeth - Macbeth with baboons! - with music by Tom Cunningham and words by Alexander McCall Smith. This album for solo voice and piano w...

Poems by Alexander McCall Smith on the four seasons from a Scottish point of view, set to music by Tom Cunningham. Spring (Range: Eb-F), Summer (Range: D-E), Autumn (Range: E-E), Winter (Range: C-F)....

A set of five amusing songs for either unison voices or a solo voice, with piano accompaniment, about the 'Tartan Terrors'. Words by Derek Roberts set to music by Tom Cunningham. Commissioned by the N...

Three songs of love with gorgeous music by Paul Carr for solo voice and piano. 'Devotion (Fain would I change that note To which fond Love hath charm'd me.....)' [Anonymous 1605] Range: C to G (opt E)...

The song-cycle 'Care-Charmer Sleep' was written, with funds from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, for Alison Mary Sutton, who was accompanied by Alan Hazeldine, in its first performance in the Purcel...

This song originally written for Paul's brother, Gavin Carr, became one of the movements in Paul's 'Requiem for an Angel'. Here it is in the original form (Range: Bb - Eb). It is suitable for male or...

Reger's 'Virgin Slumber Song' arranged for a medium high voice in F.

Contents: Bononcini: Deh piu a me non v'ascondete - Caldara: Come raggio di sol - Sebben crudele - Selve amiche - Carissimi: Vittoria, vittoria! - Cesti: Intorno all'idol mio - Gluck: O del miodolce a...

Version for Medium Voice and Piano.

Version for Medium-Low Voice and Piano.

From 'Five Sea Shanties' for Voice and Piano.

Un Bel Di arranged for High Voice and Piano.

This compilation includes compositions by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti and Ralph Vaughan Williams, setting the texts of celebrated poets such as A. E. Housman, Christina Rosset...

Giuseppe Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' was based on a play by Gutierrez, adapted by Salvtor Cammerano. Although the critics may complain about its lack of subtlety - it is filled with exactly the kinds of tw...

Mozart's 'The Marriage Of Figaro' was based on Beaumarchais' politically radical play - the second of the trilogy which begun with 'The Barber Of Seville' - later of course adapted into an opera by Ro...

Long neglected and misunderstood, 'Cosi Fan Tutte' (Thus Do All Women) emerged from obscurity in the twentieth century, and has come to be regarded as among Mozart's finest works. The Libretto is by L...

Puccini's 'La Boheme' is based on Henri Murger's novel Scènes de la vie de bohème, which draws it's inspiration from the Bohemian lifestyle which was somewhat in vogue in Paris at the time. This Libre...

Scribe's libretto to Verdi's 'A Masked Ball' concerns the real-life assassination of King Gustave III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792 but adds a love story to what was probably a political murder....

In 'Tosca', Puccini explored the dark side of human emotion, a marked change from the late-Romantic sentimentality of 'La Boheme'. Also in contrast to 'La Bohème' where the villain was fate and so the...

The libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Rigoletto' was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse which was so controversial it had been banned in Paris after one performance....

Saint-Saens originally began work on Samson and Delilah as an oratorio until persuaded by his librettest, Ferdinand Lemaire, to write it as an opera. The work is a synthesis of Wagnerian drama and Fre...

Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille Du Locle. English alternative by Walter Ducloux.

Giuseppe Verdi was always fascinated by the plays of Shakespeare and wrote three operas based on them. The music for 'Macbeth', whose libretto is by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffeiis, is drama...