Vocal Sheet Music

Judith Weir's work is often inspired by narrative, folklore and theatre. This creepy-crawly work was inspired by the novel Die Schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf, a tale about an evil, venomous spid...

Samson, an oratorio for soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra by George Frideric Handel, libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after Milton's Samson Agonistes. Edited by Donald Burrows. This latest addition t...

A text by Grahame Davies for soprano and harp, first performed by students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, at Buckingham Palace, London, in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and m...

'My latest piece has a rather nice story attached to it. I was asked by my good friend Helen Charlston if I would set a poem she had written called '18th April'. This date has special significance, as...

A setting of five late poems by Friedrich Hölderlin written under his pseudonym Scardanelli. Described by the composer as Cantata for mezzo soprano and piano, the 20-minute piece explores the full ran...

Composed for Jane Manning and Barry Guy for an Arts Council Tour with the first performance on 7th December 1972. The words are from ‘To His Coy Mistress,’ by Andrew Marvell.

The Last Invocation is a song cycle for high voice and piano which sets text by great American poet Walt Whitman. It was commissioned by The Richard Hall Trust and first performed at the Elgar Festiva...

For Mezzo-soprano and piano, 'Waka is a song cycle in five parts based on translations of Japanese Waka poetry. The brief, elliptical poems are mostly single sentences, about stylised subject matter a...

The five song set the texts As I pass at dusk (Robert Kent), The day is gone (John Keats), Carol (C Day Lewis), Come live with me (C Day Lewis), and To my brother (Siegfried Sassoon). Also available f...

The song At the Court of the Poisoned Rose was commissioned by the countertenor, James Huw-Jeffries. It is based upon a long prose poem by the Scottish poetess Marion Angus (1866-1946). Published unde...

Mozart 'Alleluia' arranged for high voice and piano in the key of F. From the motet Exultate Jubilate. Edited by Isobel Baillie.

Twelve songs from Handels' Oratorios, edited by Alberto Randegger for Soprano.

Songs from Figaro, for Soprano. Edited by Alberto Randegger.

This volume for High voice. Edited by Gerald Cooper.

Fifteen Songs And Airs for Contralto or Baritone with piano accompaniment. Edited by Gerald Cooper.

Edited by Gerald Cooper.

Edited for Contralto or Tenor Voice by Gerald Cooper.

Grand opera in three acts for unaccompanied solo soprano singing eight roles. This work was commissioned by Jane Manning, and first performed by her 17 May 1979. Duration: c. 10 minutes.

For Tenor (or Soprano) and Piano. Scotch Minstrelsy is a song cycle comprising settings of five Scottish ballads whose subject matter is almost exclusively violent happenings which take place against...

An album containing fifteen superb songs by Armstrong Gibbs, one of the greatest of English song-writers. Singers will welcome this anthology, which celebrates the mastery of Gibbs' word-setting, with...

An album containing fifteen superb songs by Armstrong Gibbs, one of the greatest of English song-writers. Singers will welcome this anthology, which celebrates the mastery of Gibbs' word-setting, with...