Chor & Gesang

Inhalt: Anema e core > Arrivederci Roma > Carmela > Caruso > Casta diva > Che gelida manina > Con te partirò > Core 'ngrato > Coro a bocca chiusa (Madama Butterfly) > Di quella pira > E lucevan le ste...

Accompaniment: John Wustman, piano - This is the first of a two-volume set of the best Italian Songs of the 17th and 18th centuries. Really wonderful songs of truly lasting merit, from such masters as...

Accompaniment: Wayne Sanders, piano - This far-ranging collection of beginning contest solos features the choicest repertoire for tenor as performed by George Shirley, and then by you, the soloist. A...

Accompaniment: Orchestra of the Sofia National Opera - More Verdi classics for Soprano and Orchestra, including great classics from Il Trovatore, La Forza del Destino, Don Carlo, and Un Ballo in Masch...

Accompaniment: Orchestra of the Sofia National Opera - A gorgeous collection of soprano arias from the master of romantic opera, Giacomo Puccini. Includes Butterfly's famous entrance ('Spira sul mare'...

Vorwort: Angefangen hat es mit Pique Dame im Jahre 1887, als sich Modest Tschaikowsky anschickte, für den eher unbedeutenden Komponisten und Theaterdirigenten Nikolai Klenowsky ein Opernlibretto nach...

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 ist ein Liederzyklus für hohe Stimme und Klavier, der einen Text des großen amerikanischen Dichters Walt Whitman vertont. Er wurde vom Richard Hall Trust in Auftrag gegeben und bei...

Waka für Mezzosopran und Klavier ist ein fünfteiliger Liederzyklus, der auf Übersetzungen japanischer Waka-Gedichte basiert. Die kurzen, elliptischen Gedichte bestehen meist aus einzelnen Sätzen, die...