Chester Music

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...

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 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...

Day Turned Into Night is a work by Iain Bell for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Accompaniment. The work is in five sections, each setting a different extract from Queen Victoria's writings concerning her lov...

For Baritone Voice and Piano. Commissioned by the BBC for an anthology of new songs celebrating the Schubert Bi-centenary. Text: Ludwig Rellstab.

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...

Work for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Text by Hugh Montgomery.

The text for this piece is taken from five poems by W. H. Auden and one by Louis MacNiece.

The text for this piece is taken from five poems by W. H. Auden and one by Louis MacNiece.

Igor Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity which clearly marks his Four Russian Songs written while transitioning from his 'Russian period' to his 'neoclassical per...

Soprano And Piano Reduction

Edition Housman

A Cycle Of Seven Songs for High Voice and Piano Accompaniment. Commissioned by the 1962 Cheltenham Festival. Premiered by Richard Lewis and Geoffrey Parsons.

With words by George Herbert, this was originally written for the NMC Songbook in 2008.

This version of Aria for Soprano and Piano is an arrangement of the original version scored for Soprano, Flute, Cello, Celesta and Percussion.

Slumber Song by William Busch for High Voice with Piano accompaniment. Words by Dorothy Wordsworth.