Master Vocal Series - LudwigMasters

For high voice and piano. A Masters Music reprint edition. Contents: A Coronal; Passing Dreams; A Land of Silence; and In Spring.

Nadia Boulanger composed this collection of seven songs in 1915, including "Sunsets", "Elegy", "Prayer", "Hymn", "Versailles", "Song" and "Winter Evening".

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) made arrangements for voice with violin of 80 ENGLISH FOLK-SONGS. These two were set originally in 1913, both in A minor, with No. 2 having just appeared shortly bef...

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) wrote these SIX SONGS TO GERMAN POEMS from before 1909 and 1911. The first five songs were written as 5 GERMAN POEMS before 1909 as A.3 - A.7. The sixth song was...

These eight songs by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936), drawn from several of his song collections, are written for medium voice and combine old-world Italian sensitivity with modern harm...

BIBLICAL SONGS, Op. 99/B. 185 on texts from the Book of Psalms, were written in March of 1894, during Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) stay in the United States. The composer turned to the Bible against a...

BIBLICAL SONGS, Op. 99B. 185, on texts from the Book of Psalms, were written in March of 1894, during Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) stay in the United States. The composer turned to the Bible against a...

French composer Henri Duparc (1848-1933) is known largely for the thirteen songs included in this collection, eight for which he wrote orchestral accompaniment. Included: L'invitation au voyage; Seren...

French composer Henri Duparc (1848-1933) is known largely for the thirteen songs included in this collection, eight for which he wrote orchestral accompaniment. Included: L'invitation au voyage; Seren...

This collection of NINE SONGS by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) include the following: 1. Nuit d'étoiles, CD 2/ L.4 (Starry Summer Night); 2. Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois, CD 85/ L.81; 3. L'échel...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) composed the six songs he would in 1903 title ARIETTES OUBLIÉES (FORGOTTEN SONGS), L. 60/ CD 63, between 1885 and 1887. Each song is a setting of the poetry of Paul Verlaine...

BIBLICAL SONGS, Op. 99/B. 185, on texts from the Book of Psalms, were written in March of 1894, during Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) stay in the United States. The composer turned to the Bible against...

This collection of songs by Arnold Schönberg is available from the publisher in five volumes. Included in Volume 3: Fünfzehn gedichte aus 'Das Buch der hängenden Gärten', Op. 15 (1. Unterm Schutz von...

This collection of songs by Arnold Schönberg is available from the publisher in five volumes. Included in Volume 4: Sechs Orchester-Lieder (Six Orchestral Songs), Op. 8, arranged by Anton Webern (1. N...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) wrote the first of his CINQ MÉLODIES POPULAIRES GRECQUES (Five Greek Folk Melodies) in 1904 at the urgent request of Pierre Aubry, who wished to illustrate a lecture he was g...

A series of songs of the noted master of French vocal and operatic music, Emanuel Alexis Chabrier (1841-1894). 8 songs included: 1. Toutes les fleurs (1889; text by Edmond Rostand); 2. Ballade des gro...

A series of songs of the noted master of French vocal and operatic music, Emanuel Alexis Chabrier (1841-1894). Includes the choral setting of À LA MUSIQUE, and 5 other songs for solo vocalist. 1. À la...

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) wrote these settings of two poems, THIS BOOK OF HOURS, A.36 (poem by Walter Crane) and COME, LOVE, ACROSS THE SUNLIT LAND, A.37 (poem by Clinton Scollard) around...

Poet Rudyard Kipling wrote his booklet of essays and poems about World I nautical themes, titled THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET, in 1915. Composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934) wasted little time in setting four...

Mañanica era (The Goddess in the Garden) is the 2nd song in a collection of seven settings of Spanish folk love poems called Canciones amatorias, H. 24. While the songs are difficult to date (likely s...

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) composed the short song cycle Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée in 1919 for voice with accompaniment by a septet of flute, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartet, though the...

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) composed the short song cycle Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée in 1919 for voice with accompaniment by a septet of flute, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartet, though the...

Satie wrote Trois Mélodies, a lighthearted cycle of three songs, for the mezzo-soprano Jane Bathori, a star of the Parisian opera world. They were first performed by Bathori and pianist Ricardo Viñes...

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) wrote his Siete canciones populares españolas (Seven Spanish Folksongs) in 1914 for voice and piano, and it premiered on January 14th of the following year, with Luisa Vela...

With text by Tristan Derème, Jacques Ibert's (1890-1962) La verdure dorée (1923) is written for baritone with piano and has four movements: 1. Comme j'allais, 2. Tiède azur, 3. Cette grande chambre, 4...