Piano Excerpts

Dedicated to and first performed by Rosalind Rees; these three songs on texts of Archibald MacLeish are deeply moving. They may be sung by male or female voices. Schuman; one of America's leading comp...

Gesang und 2 Klaviere (Tenor)

This treasury of duets includes seven works; including new settings of the familiar texts to 'The Silver Swan' and 'Ave Maria;' as well as the composer's own comic scene 'Divas of a Certain Age' depic...

Mr Emmet represents an enigma: is he a business man with briefcase and umbrella pursuing the ultimate commercial contract, a double agent extorting a much shadier deal from a foreign power, or a tragi...

Taking Thomas Hardy's short story as its starting point, we are transported to the present for a contemporary take on the novella which explores the power the mind can have over that person's actions....

Chorales from the oratorio "The Little Match Girl," based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The oratorio "The Little Match Girl" is based on the fairy tale of the same name by Ha...

Non-liturgical setting of the Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei from the Latin Mass, scored for 4-part children's choir and full orchestra. The composer states that 'each movement is reasonably substantial...

Argento has crafted a five-movement suite from his 1964 opera The Masque of Angels. Designed as a mini choral drama, it includes a Processional for the angels; the well-known Gloria; the colorful Arri...

The libretto of this opera was adapted by John Adams and Peter Sellars from a South Indian folktale and poems translated by A.K. Ramanujan. A Flowering Tree premiered in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna...