Noten für Gesang: Mezzosopran & Bariton

For Medium Voice and Piano, setting the words of Bill Adams and James Kirkup.

For Medium Voice and Piano.

When Haydn was not around, there was always Charles Dibdin (1740-1814) who regaled London with his songs at the same period. Davies's arrangement of four of them makes an amused but also affectionate...

Duration 7 minutes. Orchestral accompaniment available on hire. English version by Steuart Allin.

Setting of a poem by Hilaire Belloc. Written at the request of CRUSAID and first performed in London in May 1990 by David Wilson-Johnson and David Owen Norris.

This cycle of settings of poems by Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper. The texts are taken from the following collections: 'Chanson einer Dame im Schatten' and 'Corona' fr...

Scored for solo countertenor or mezzo soprano. This work was commissioned by the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music. First performed 11th November 1998. The texts of the six, brief, unaccompanied s...

For Baritone and Piano. Text: A. E. Housman

Scored for piano and Baritone. Duration 9 minutes.

Composer's Notes: Heavenly Things is my fourteenth song-cycle, but the first with piano accompaniment. I mention this because, when I was asked to write this piece my first reaction was 'what can I ma...

Modern Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin's Drei Gedichte'arranged for the mezzo soprano voice and piano. These three poems were written between 1900 and 1908, and they are very different in terms of for...

The text of the piece is taken from the poem Whoever Finds a Horseshoe by the Jewish-Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. The composer has taken the lines directly from the original Russian text that connect...

This work was written to celebrate Michael Berkeley's 10th year as Artistic Director of the Cheltenham International Music Festival. It was first performed on 11th July 2004, in the Pittville Pump Roo...

For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra. Vocal Score. Piano reduction by Christopher Brown. Adriana Songs was commissioned by the Auftakt Festival, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maa...

Written for medium voice and piano.

Lennox Berkeley's I Carry Your Heart With Me for medium Voice and Piano. ' Sometime in 1970 I gave Lennox Berkeley a volume of poems by the American poet E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) since my sister Mer...

This song was written for the NMC Songbook and recorded by Omar Ebrahim. 'Raju Raghuvanshi is unmarried; he's forty five; his parents are dead; no siblings. He's had to move to Bamni nearby. For here...

Eleven-Fifty' is the fourth of seven separate songs to various poets written by Lennox Berkeley in the late 1930s and early 1940s. They were grouped together for convenience as Opus 14, No. 2. 'The B...

Sweet Content by William Busch for Medium Voice with Piano accompaniment. Words by W. H. Davies.

The Fairies by William Busch for Medium Voice with Piano accompaniment. Words by Robert Herrick.

Weep You No More by William Busch for Medium Voice with Piano accompaniment.

Jocelyn Pook's Hearing Voices was commissioned by BBC3 for the BBC Concert Orchestra, who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 3 December 2012, with Melanie Pappenheim, m...

Once Did I Breathe Another's Breath was commissioned for the 2013 Ludlow Weekend of English Song with funds provided by Finzi Friends and specifically Ernie Kay, Brian & Mary Midgley and Adrian & Norm...