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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...

Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden's memories of Ántonia Shimerda during their shared experiences of the pioneering period...

With a text by the composer, this work was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'.

Scored for solo high voice and piano, I remember sets a text reflecting on the wonder of the natural world and the people who shape our lives. The stirring melody calls to mind the folksong tradition,...

Reginal Wright's emotional and uplifting Crossroad sets Robert Frost's well-known poem 'The road not taken'. A twinkling piano accompaniment supports the voices, and the optional violin duet floats ab...

Make We Merry is an eight-movement piece which sets texts from the 15th to 19th centuries to a variety of choral textures with a highly characterful accompaniment. A vast array of sentiments is depict...

An expressive carol with text altered from the poem Three Kings came a-riding by the famous 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Offprinted from the Christmas cantata A Light in the Stable.

Lucy Walker's thoughtful setting of There is no rose flows between swells of emotion and warm chromatic inflections in the Latin refrains. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

This gentle arrangement for a cappella choir of the well-known fifteenth-century carol conjures a restful but evocatively melancholy atmosphere. The texture is varied by the use of a soprano soloist,...

The piece sets extracts from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and is made up of six choral movements, including a substantial solo role for countertenor. Between t...

Uraufführung am 19. August 2000 in Hannover, EXPO Lied: Strahl-Festival: Marcus Ullmann (Tenor), Michael Wendeberg (Klavier)

Für Sopran und Klavier nach Franz Kafka

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Ursula Mamlok (1923 - 2016) gibt Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock in Zusammenarbeit mit der Dwight und Ursula Mamlok Stiftung eine Reihe zu Lebzeiten der Komponistin nicht publizier...

Five Love Songs are scored for Soprano and Guitar They were composed in 1955, making them one of the composer's earliest published works. They are dedicated to the Soprano Flore Wend and the guitarist...

A Suite O Bairnsangs, poems by Maurice Lindsay. Arranged for high voice and piano. Commissioned for Scottish Festival 1953.

Kaija Saariaho 's Lonh, scored for Soprano Voice and Electronics, was commissioned by the Wien Modern Festival and premiered on the 20th October 1996. The title  Lonh, meaning far away or distant...

A work for Soprano and Piano. A setting of the text Eino Leino. Alternative title: 'Evening Prayer'

Written for soprano and piano with text taken from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Measure for measure and Othello.

Kaija Saariaho's Emilie was commissioned by Opéra de Lyon, Barbican Centre, London and Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. It was first performed on 1st March 2010 at Opéra de Lyon with Karita Matti...

For Tenor and Piano. In the Mist was written whilst I was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 2008. I had the opportunity to work with the poet Lloyd Schwartz, setting one of his...

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Something More Than Mortal for Solo Soprano.

19 Arien und Lieder (E. Rieger).