Vocal Sheet Music

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

These two contrasing songs, setting poems by Emily Dickinson, are highly contrasting. 'Summer' is meditative and nostalgic, whilst 'Hope' is mercurial and fleet-footed, evoking the skittering of a bir...

Commissioned by Roderick Williams, this characterful trilogy of songs sets poems by John Greening that present a vibrant, modern take on each of Schubert's song cycles.

This cantata is Italian in origin due to the autograph being written on paper with the 'three moons'. It may possibly be associated with Florence early in Handel's sojourn.

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...

for soprano and pipa (or marimba) A beautiful vocalise originally intended with pipa accompaniment (a four-string Chinese instrument with similarities to the lute). The vocalist sings only vowels thro...

for baritone and piano A humorous and engaging setting of a Chinese poem by Yan Li, In Zhou Long's charactersistic style, the music uses elements from traditional Chinese music.

Known above all for his operas, such as Manon (1884), Werther (1892) and Thaïs (1894), Jules Massenet (1842-1912) also left nearly 300 art songs for voice and piano or orchestral accompaniment. Most o...

Refus (1901) It was not until its publication on the 12th of January 1901 in Le Figaro that Refus was acknowledged to be one of Massenet's works. However, it marked the beginning of an interesting but...

Massenet composed Amoureux d'une étoile in August 1911, just one year before his death on the 13th of August 1912. The poem comes from a collection by Vice Admiral Eugène de Jonquières (1850-1919),...

The composer, known for his power of seduction, thus put his work at the service of his public image. He needed the press which, in turn, wished to benefit from his assistance, so much so that his pop...

Already practised in the salons of the second half of the 18th century, the genre of the romance experienced an unprecedented vogue under the Empire and then the Restoration. Defined in Jean-Jacques R...

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...

Only seven secular compositions of his larger musical output have survived. Despite the small sample size, Pierre Fontaine's songs exhibit an originality and beauty that foreshadowed those of his famo...

La Légende de saint Nicolas (The Legend of Saint Nicholas) The Legend of Saint Nicholas was published on 1 January 1880 in the first issue of Saint-Nicolas: Journal illustré pour garçons et filles, a...

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...