Coro y canto

Composed in 2007 for the Leeds Lieder festival, Hesketh's Shimmerwords and Idle Songs for soprano and piano is a 18 minute song cycle made up of six songs in four sections. The text is taken from a co...

'Three Auden Songs' was commissioned by Theatre Royal de la Monnaie for the tenor Mark Padmore and the pianist Andrew West who gave the first performance in Brussels in 2009. Lyricism and clarity are...

'Three Auden Songs' was commissioned by Theatre Royal de la Monnaie for the tenor Mark Padmore and the pianist Andrew West who gave the first performance in Brussels in 2009. Lyricism and clarity are...

Gavin Bryars has returned once again to the poetry of George Bruce and the 'Five Songs from Northern Seas' are dedicated to his memory in his centenary year. Bryars describes the five evocative poems:...

Water Parted is from Barry's opera The Intelligence Park, and tells the story of a composer who has lost the power to write, later rediscovering it through an obsession with a castrato. The work alter...

hohe Singstimme (oder Solostimme und Chor) und Klavier

hohe Singstimme (oder Solostimme und Chor) und Klavier

This motet for soprano, tenor and organ without pedal ranks among the little, yet particularly valuable pieces of Rota for singing voice and organ. Originally, 'Tota pulchra es' ('You are completely b...

This monodrama sums up the essential moments of the second scene from Act V of Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra in the Russian translation of Boris Pasternak. The conflict between life and d...

Hindemith composed a total of 14 motets for soprano and piano between 1940 and 1960. It was not until 1958 that Hindemith developed the idea of combining his early motets with the composition of furth...

Ob Laie oder Profi - beliebte Arien der Micaëla (Sopran) aus George Bizets 'Carmen' jetzt auch in der kritischen Studienausgabe mit originalem Klavierauszug: übersichtliche Gestaltung mit singbarer de...

Das fünfsätzige Werk für Sopran und Klavier nach Gedichtsfragmenten von Rainer Maria Rilke verbindet eine anspruchsvolle Gesangspartie mit teils zurückhaltender, teils zupackender Klavierbegleitung. I...

Im Jahr 2010 habe ich als Stipendiat der Villa Massimo in Rom gelebt. Während meiner Zeit dort bin ich auf ein paar Gedichte von Michelangelo gestoßen, die mich sehr berührt haben, und hatte bald den...