Michael Berkeley Sheet Music for Voices

for soprano and piano This song was written for the 'NMC Songbook', a CD of contemporary vocal studies. Of a romantic, wistful nature, it is particularly accessible, full of lush Poulenc-inspired harm...

Hollow Fires is a cycle of four songs, setting texts by Hardy and Housman on the subject of love and loss.

In O be joyful, the lyrical melody lines from the upper voices are supported by a sensitive and melodic piano accompaniment. The piece moves through a variety of tonalities and metres, which is typica...

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...

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...

In this setting, which includes salient fragments for St Luke's gospel (in Greek), alongside the customary text from the Book of Common Prayer, Finnissy renders this excitement, joy, awe, and trepidat...

For high voice and piano. These two short songs are set to texts by A E Housman and Edward Thomas.

These three songs for soprano or tenor were sketched when the composer was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in the late 1960s, and subsequently revised. The texts are by W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Ow...