Faber Music

These songs, written quickly and completely by intuition, were among the first music I composed after two years of virtual silence. “Gong” was written in August 1988 for the 70th birthday celebrations...

... as in his operas, Knussen displays a rare feeling for word-setting and graceful melodic writing. Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times, 23 June 1991

Life Story Op. 8 (1993), for soprano with two bass clarinets and double bass, was first performed by Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble conducted by the composer at the West Road Concert Hall, Ca...

... a skirling, reedy accompaniment to a patter-song collected in Turkey by Bartok, beautifully proportioned and realised. Andrew Clements, Financial Times, 21 November 1989

Experience a fascinating musical encounter between two masterminds: In "Gretchens Bitte" (D 564), Franz Schubert set Goethe's poignant scene from the monumental masterpiece Faust to music. Left unfini...

'Junior Songscape' is the perfect resource for primary school singing, and prepares the way for Lin Marsh's hugely successful Key Stage 3 songbook 'Songscape'. It is an invaluable collection of twenty...

Celebrates the repertoire featured on the current ABRSM and Trinity Guildhall singing syllabuses. As well as a carefully-selected range of classical, contemporary and folk songs, the books bring jazz...

Celebrates the repertoire featured on the current ABRSM and Trinity Guildhall singing syllabuses. As well as a carefully-selected range of classical, contemporary and folk songs, the books bring jazz...

John Woolrich's The Unlit Suburbs for tenor voice with piano accompaniment.

Let your musicality take flight with "Butterfly" by renowned composer Lin Marsh! This enchanting piece is taken from the popular collection *Serendipity Solos* and captivates with its graceful melodic...

Immerse yourself in the evocative world of nature with "Earth, Sea and Sky" by acclaimed composer Lin Marsh, published by Faber Music. This expressive work masterfully captures the beauty and vastness...

Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito composed by Xavier Montsalvatge, arranged for high voice and piano in digital sheet music format. The song has an accompanying text page which includes backgro...

This short, melancholy setting a fragment of John Clare sees Tansy Davies at her most refined, responding to the text’s nature imagery and deep greens with music of clear, cool, beauty.

Static is one of two songs by Tansy Davies setting poems by Nick Drake, who would go on to write the libretto for Davies’s opera Between Worlds. Capricious in nature, the two-minute work sees the pian...

This Love is one of two songs by Tansy Davies setting poems by Nick Drake, who would go on to write the libretto for Davies’s opera Between Worlds. Obsessive in the way that all its 3 minutes of music...

The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs, nine songs for high voice and piano, written by Benjamin Britten. Arranged for high voice and piano accompaniment in digital sheet music format.

A Poison Tree, written by Benjamin Britten with words by William Blake. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and piano accompaniment in digital sheet music format.

Birthday Song For Erwin, written by Benjamin Britten with words by Ronald Duncan. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and piano accompaniment in digital sheet music fo...

Cradle Song (Sleep, My Darling, Sleep), written by Benjamin Britten with words by Louis MacNiece. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and piano accompaniment in digita...

If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart (Dirge For Wolfram), written by Benjamin Britten with words by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and piano accom...

Not Even Summer Yet, written by Benjamin Britten with words by Peter Burra. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and piano accompaniment in digital sheet music format.

The Red Cockatoo, written by Benjamin Britten with words by Arthur Waley after the Chinese of Po Chü-I, 820 AD. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and piano accompani...

Um Mitternacht, written by Benjamin Britten with words by JW von Goethe, includes an English translation by Andrew Porter. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and pian...

When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection, written by Benjamin Britten with words by WH Auden. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for high voice and piano accompaniment in...