Spartiti di Compositrici per canto: Opere solistiche e lirica

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...

On Buying A Horse is a work for Medium Voice and Piano by Judith Weir. This piece received its first performance on 18th February 1992 in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh by the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts...

For Baritone Voice and Piano. Commissioned by the BBC for an anthology of new songs celebrating the Schubert Bi-centenary. Text: Ludwig Rellstab.

Medium Voice And Piano

Medium Voice And Piano.

Prized among Welsh speakers, the anonymous 14th-century poem Yr Alarch ('The Swan') is a striking verbal portrait of 'this being without blemish', conveyed in terms of memorable imagery which has insp...

The contrasting aspects of nature are a major theme in the work of Rhian Samuel, and in her song cycle Spring Diary for baritone and piano she responds passionately to its vernal magic. Beginning in d...

For medium voice and piano or ensemble of flute, harp and string quartet, Moon and Birds is a substantial cycle of songs to words by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson. Its sequence of four settings,...

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...

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'....

This beautiful art-song collection is names after Phillis Wheatley, America's first female African-American poet, whose poems were an inspiration to George Washington and the other Founding Fathers. T...

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, from 1880-1902. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle to earn a living to support...

Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese explores the finding of a mature love by a woman who wonders what part of her must she sacrifice to the lover and to the world...

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda Ueland's 1938 autobiography. Although Ueland's life was nothing out of the ordinary, the philosophy of her writing is to find the joy in everyday e...

Margaret Songs are a collection of three songs of Margaret Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen's chamber opera, Eric Hermannson's Soul, based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one woman's em...

Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden's memories of Ántonia Shimerda during their shared experiences of the pioneering period...

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...