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This poem by John Keats has been set into a cycle of eight songs for baritone and piano which was commissioned by Suzie Kovner for her husband Bruce in commemoration of his 65th birthday. Songs includ...

Experience "Muttertändelei op. 43, No. 2", an enchanting masterpiece of the vocal repertoire, presented in a high-quality sheet music edition by Richard Birnbach Musikverlag. As the second piece from...

Theatre Solos for beginning singers. Arranged for Mezzo Soprano and Alto.

With 'Three Songs after Schubert', published by the renowned Oxford University Press, you will discover a fascinating vocal work that masterfully bridges tradition and modernity. Originally commission...

Margaret Songs are a collection of three songs of Margaret Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen's chamber opera, Eric Hermannson's Soul, based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one woman's em...

These poetic 'collages' were born from a freedom left to words to arrange themselves in images, almost without the assent of thought. I say 'almost'. In this field, regardless of what one might allege...

Contrary to my custom, I decided to bring together in this cahier songs set to poems by three different writers. Their date of composition, which provides this (false) semblance of title, would certai...

I came to Reverdy late - I was already in my twenties - through two verses from Les Ardoises du toit, that I happened to be leafing through by chance at a friend's home: 'The last belltower still stan...

In the preface to my Trois Poèmes de Supervielle, recently published by Symétrie, I describe his poetry as 'familiar, peaceful and reassuring', deeming it 'faithful to all stages of our life'. But I d...

I can never repeat too often how much my taste in poetry - a certain kind of poetry - is indebted to Georges Schehadé. After a childhood carpeted with Victor Hugo's alexandrines, and an adolescence in...

Recently discovered, Reynaldo Hahn's Sagesse cycle, inspired by Verlaine's collection, is among the works composed during his romantic relationship with Marcel Proust, between 1894 and 1896. He first...

In a tale by Anatole France, the king of Persia wanted to learn 'the universal history of men'. However, his scholars having taken so long in compiling the volumes, he will no longer have the time to...

My liking for Schehadé dates back to when I was very young. One of my aunts acted as secretary to the poet, and in the silken cocoon of those long afternoons when she was typing out the chansonnettes...

Those who feel intimidated by Le Soulier de satin or the Cinq Grandes Odes (and at the same time fascinated—and dwarfed—by their sheer immensity) are surprised, on opening his Phrases pour éventails,...

My liking for Schehadé dates back to when I was very young. One of my aunts acted as secretary to the poet, and in the silken cocoon of those long afternoons when she was typing out the chansonnettes...

A few words about Poil de Carotte; a few words to admit that his experience is very remote from my own… I am lucky in having had a happy childhood, whence the constant and ever-increasing feelings of...

What can be said about Mauvais cœur—the text, that is—without resorting to paraphrase? It needs to be referred to in the same roundabout way in which it is written. Its mystery is as complete as it ha...

Those who feel intimidated by Le Soulier de satin or the Cinq Grandes Odes (and at the same time fascinated—and dwarfed—by their sheer immensity) are surprised, on opening his Phrases pour éventails,...

Those who feel intimidated by Le Soulier de satin or the Cinq Grandes Odes (and at the same time fascinated—and dwarfed—by their sheer immensity) are surprised, on opening his Phrases pour éventails,...

Apollinaire's poetry—like Verlaine's—is already almost music, so how could it not tempt a musician? But precisely, this attraction should put him on his guard. What is a virtue in poetry can turn agai...

The Chansons Incas are part of a tradition of the "elsewhere" extending the music world tour taken on by Maurice Ravel (Chansons madécasses), Louis Aubert (Poèmes arabes), Maurice Delage (Poèmes hindo...

Is it really possible for a poet of this quality to disappear without a trace? Not alone, moreover: along with Carco, Derème, and a few others of this "fanciful school", who, on the fringes of the noi...

It is not always well known that Rilke, in the evening of his life, wrote a few poems in French. He gave an admirable motive for this in the very middle of his collection Vergers: Perhaps if I dared w...