Classical Vocal Sheet Music

French composer, Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) is best known for his Opera, Louise. Having premiered in 1900, the Opera remains performed to this day. Louise depicts Parisian working-class life, tel...

Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745) left only one chamber cantata scored for bass voice and continuo, but this work, Sudaste, alfin sudaste, is a masterpiece. Its poetic text takes the form of an imagined m...

The Exeter Book is a collection of many different writings and is generally acknowledged to be one of the great works of the English Benedictine revival of the tenth century. Among the other texts in...

Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelu...

A new work by cult pianist and composer Evgeny Kissin! These nine Yiddish poems were penned by his friend, the author and lyricist Boris Sandler (*1950). Kissin follows in his very folksong-like setti...

Written in 1885, the eight songs after texts by the now little-known poet Hermann von Gilm have a special place in Richard Strauss' corpus of Lieder. For the first time, he composed an entire set of s...

Written in 1885, the eight songs after texts by the now little-known poet Hermann von Gilm have a special place in Richard Strauss' corpus of Lieder. For the first time, he composed an entire set of s...

Written in 1885, the eight songs after texts by the now little-known poet Hermann von Gilm have a special place in Richard Strauss' corpus of Lieder. For the first time, he composed an entire set of s...

Among the many works that Richard Strauss wrote for his wife Pauline de Ahna, the Four Songs op. 27 occupy a special position, for the composer gave these "to my beloved Pauline" as a wedding present...

Among the many works that Richard Strauss wrote for his wife Pauline de Ahna, the Four Songs op. 27 occupy a special position, for the composer gave these "to my beloved Pauline" as a wedding present...

It is a great pleasure to present, with Thanatopsis, maestro Kissin's opus 4, an expressive setting of the ground-breaking poem from the quill of William Cullen Bryant. Published in in the form known...

In Fanny Hensel’s oeuvre, which encompasses more than 450 works, songs play a central role. They form the largest group of works and occupied her throughout her life as a composer: from the fourteen-y...

Quatuor à cordes no. 2 op. 10

As with the Dichterliebe (HN549), Frauenliebe und Leben (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann’s “Liederj...

As with the Dichterliebe (HN549), Frauenliebe und Leben (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann’s “Liederj...

Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelu...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel! Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schuma...

Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel! Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schuma...

The Four Serious Songs, op. 121, was to be the last work Brahms published before his death. These songs are closely linked to the death of his beloved friend Clara Schumann in May 1896. It is reported...

To whom did Beethoven address this song cycle "An die ferne Geliebte" ("To the Distant Beloved"), which he completed at the age of 45 in April 1816? Was it to the same person, to whom his passionate l...