Peter Warlock Noten für Gesang

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Based on the tune from the Corpus Christi hymn Pange Lingua, this song depicts the shepherds' feelings approaching the manger.

Also wittily subtitled 'Strike till the iron is hot', this is a comic, almost 'nonsense' song based on a poem by Marianne Moore.

Like Virgil Thomson's opera 'Four Saints in Three Acts', this is a setting of text by Gertrude Stein. Also similarly to 'Pigeons on the Grass Alas' from that opera, it draws musical material from the...

Opera in Two Acts. Ostensibly a biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffragette movement, Stein's libretto slyly fractures history and expands the argument beyond votes for women to the essence of e...

The setting of a text by Sidney Bell for men's voices, by Eric Thiman. A Piano accompaniment is included for rehearsal purposes only.

Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003) was an Australian composer, who moved to Britain in 1950 and spent the rest of his life there. He was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 1975, a title he held unti...

Contents: Go, Lovely Rose œ Crossing the Bar œ A Birthday œ Sweet and Low œ Jenny Kiss'd Me œ When I am Dead. Orchestral parts available on rental from Boosey & Hawkes.