Spartiti difficile per Canto

Opening simply with a solo voice, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Italian settings of eight poems by Renaissance artist Michelangelo for baritone and piano take both the performers and audience on a strikin...

Bariton und Klavier (linke Hand)

The Greek poetess Sappho wrote her poems, which have survived in fragmentary form, in exile in Sicily in about 600 BC. Full of natural intensity and liveliness, her verses revolve around the condition...

In an all-new set of German art songs, Rihm uses 13 poems of Goethe as the basis for his varied vocal compositions. The set is published in two versions, for tenor and for baritone, and is part of UE'...

In an all-new set of German art songs, Rihm uses 13 poems of Goethe as the basis for his varied vocal compositions. The set is published in two versions, for tenor and for baritone, and is part of UE'...

Regarded as missing for a long time, Gideon Klein's (1919-45) Opus 1 was not rediscovered until in 1990, together with other works from the time before his internment in Terezin.The songs were created...

This unique compilation is a wonderful, substantial sampling of art song in the English language, with composers from both sides of the Atlantic. The publication includes many first-time transposition...

These exciting collections feature new transcriptions, previously unpublished material, and some selections never before published separately from complete vocal scores. The High Voice edition feature...

Michael Tippett's description of what drew him to the longer of W. B. Yeats' two poems on Byzantium gives us a glimpse of what was going through his mind as the fascination of Byzantium as a mode of s...

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:...

This monodrama sums up the essential moments of the second scene from Act V of Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra in the Russian translation of Boris Pasternak. The conflict between life and d...

German and French fragments by Rilke from the years 1911 to 1921 form the basis of the text of this composition. Reimann sees Rilke in affinity with Kafka. The tonal language is not lost in dreams, as...

Sopran und Klavier

Sopran und Klavier

Night-like sounds are explored in a variety of ways in the three parts of this wide-ranging scene. Ornamental and playful, the piano entwines with the singing voice in the first part. In the recitativ...

With his opera 'The Dead Souls' (based on Gogol) and the ballets 'Anna Karenina' (based on Tolstoy), 'The Seagull' and 'Woman with a Little Dog' (both based on Chekov), Shchedrin has brought classic w...

Profound Slavonic emotion and thrilling virtuosity distinguish many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions. Even though he has long since become a citizen of the world, the composer born in Moscow has hel...

Jörg Widmann komponierte die Signale für sechs Stimmen anlässlich der Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2003 ohne die Verwendung eines konkreten Textes. Die einzelnen Stimmen behandeln rein phonetisc...