Spartiti per canto

This substantial cycle was written for the tenor Peter Pears, and first performed by him in 1953 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the distinguished pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. It follws the exam...

This substantial cycle was written for the tenor Peter Pears, and first performed by him in 1953 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the distinguished pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. It follws the exam...

According to tradition, the Bard David lived in a house called Y Garreg Wen (The White Rock) in a remote situation in North Wales. He was commonly called by his Christian name followed by the name of...

This song by Jeremiah Clarke first appeared in print in 1700, together with a song by William Croft, under the title: Two Divine Hymns, a supplement to the Second Book of Harmonia Sacra. Both these Di...

This song by Jeremiah Clarke first appeared in print in 1700, together with a song by William Croft, under the title: Two Divine Hymns, a supplement to the Second Book of Harmonia Sacra. Both these Di...

British Waterside (or The Jolly Sailor) as sung by Mr Samuel Stokes (August, 1906, at Retford Almshouses, Retford, Nottinghamshire, England). Collected by Percy Aldridge Grainger and set for voice and...

May be key-shifted (transposed) into any key.

Composed in 2007 for the Leeds Lieder festival, Hesketh's Shimmerwords and Idle Songs for soprano and piano is a 18 minute song cycle made up of six songs in four sections. The text is taken from a co...

Composed in 2007 for the Leeds Lieder festival, Hesketh's Shimmerwords and Idle Songs for soprano and piano is a 18 minute song cycle made up of six songs in four sections. The text is taken from a co...

'Three Auden Songs' was commissioned by Theatre Royal de la Monnaie for the tenor Mark Padmore and the pianist Andrew West who gave the first performance in Brussels in 2009. Lyricism and clarity are...

'Three Auden Songs' was commissioned by Theatre Royal de la Monnaie for the tenor Mark Padmore and the pianist Andrew West who gave the first performance in Brussels in 2009. Lyricism and clarity are...

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:...

Bryars' settings of Benedicamus Domino and Credo were written to complete a Ladymass that had been constructed from the Worcester Fragments. They were composed with the intention of seamless integrati...

Water Parted is from Barry's opera The Intelligence Park, and tells the story of a composer who has lost the power to write, later rediscovering it through an obsession with a castrato. The work alter...