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A beautifully constructed song-cycle set to poems from Christina Rosetti to WB Yeats and the sixteenth century French poet Pontus de Tyard. Exploring the themes of yearning and longing at the end of a...

For mezzo-soprano and piano. Song cycle originally scored for tenor and harp. These songs are among Berkeley's earliest compositions, written at the suggestion of Peter Pears. The poems, by Thomas Har...

This anthology has been compiled from the best-known and most frequently sung songs in the five volumes previously published by OUP. It includes songs to suit both male and female voices, although mos...

For solo baritoneThe Flea was commissioned as a work 'suitable for singing in an informal setting and easily memorised'. It is a free and humorous setting of John Donne's poem in which the poet attemp...

This three volume series comprises the bulk of the solo songs which Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. The songs span his whole long career; from 1869 to 1958. The majority are s...

For unaccompanied soprano and mezzo-soprano. This unaccompanied duet for soprano and mezzo conflates R. S. Thomas' beautiful poem on the sacred quality of moorland with passages from three different P...

For mezzo-soprano and piano. This song cycle uses texts by women poets and focuses on women's experience with great humour and irony. The cycle will appeal to singers with real interpretative flair an...

Arranged here for solo high voice and piano or organ, this heartfelt setting is built upon a haunting melody of folk-like simplicity, underpinned throughout by a lyrical and independent accompaniment....

Scored for high voice and piano or organ, this is a moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, an...

Scored for high voice and piano or organ, this is a charming setting of the well-known Psalm in Chilcott's signature style. The melodies flow gently in three, exuding calmness and expression, underpin...

This is a gentle and graceful anthem setting the well-loved words usually ascribed to St Francis of Assisi. It has been arranged for high voice from the composer'sLux Perpetua, a choral work on the th...

Scored for high voice and piano, Wilberg's arrangement of this popular carol is bright and lively, supported by a tinkling piano accompaniment. Also available in a version for low voice and piano.

Four Shakespeare Songs sets texts exploring different aspects of love. Using passages from various Shakespeare plays, McDowall's writing is beautiful and clever in how it reflects the moods and emotio...

Arranged here for solo high voice and piano or organ, this lyrical setting of a text by Colin Coppen has an elegant melody and flowing piano accompaniment. It would make a charming addition to any con...

With an alternating 2/4 and 3/4 time signature, this lilting melody is simple but charming, supported by a delicate piano part. Also available in a version for solo low voice and piano or organ.

Scored for high voice and piano, Wilberg's arrangement of this familiar traditional melody is gentle and lilting, supported by rich harmonies and a mellifluous piano part. Also available in a version...

This secular work for solo high voice and piano sensitively sets Langston Hughes's poem of the same name. A lilting melodic line and an effective piano part combine to create a piece that will appeal...

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

Setting words by the Godfrey Thring, this short piece for solo high voice and piano or organ is heartwarming and gentle, supported by a flowing piano accompaniment. Also available in a version for sol...

Scored for high voice and piano or organ, this setting of a Jewish text is simple but uplifting, and well-supported by a flowing keyboard accompaniment. Also available in a version for solo low voice.

The text Lauda Sion, written by St Thomas Aquinas, is the sequence for the Feast of Corpus Christi. Monteverdi set stanzas one, two, and twenty-three of the sequence, which contains twenty-four verses...

This follows the order of the liturgy at St. Paul's, West Street, Brighton. Congregational participation (in Hymns, prayers, the Creed and Angelus) has been omitted.

This English traditional carol has been fully arranged for a mixed voice choir, congregation and organ accompaniment. Orchestral score and parts are also available. Offprinted from the collection O Ho...

Howard Helvey's arrangement of this traditional American melody is tender and expressive, with the lilting melody set in a variety of choral textures.

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...