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Three Songs from Yeats - John Byrt Dedicated to Michael Deady The Ballad of Father Gilligan (approximately 5' 20") The Cap and Bells (approximately 2' 55") The Fiddler of Dooney (approximately 1' 05") Original songs for deep bass are hard to come by but Michael's profundo seemed to deserve something special. I hope there may be other basses who are looking for modern repertoire, written with an ear for this unusual texture. John Byrt ISMN M 708040 72 9 £6.00 |
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A Final Love Song - Gordon Langford ISMN M 708040 48 4 Solo song for bass and piano. Score (8pp) with laminated cover £3.75 |
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Sweet Blossom - Gordon Langford ISMN M 708040 56 9 Solo song for soprano or tenor and piano. Score (8pp) with laminated cover £3.75 This song is also available in a version for SATB and Piano, click here for details. |
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Songs of the Earth - John Byrt: Four Songs from the Vegetable Garden The Earthworm - Harry Edmund Martinson Digging - Edward Thomas I is for Implements - W.H. Davies Unfair to Slugs - Margaret Toms ISMN M 708040 40 8 17pp + Colour Laminated cover A4. £6.00 Click here to read a review |
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Four Songs to Poems by Women Poets (1994) - John Byrt: Song (An Collins) A Song (Charlotte Lennox) A Birthday (Christina Rossetti) Love from the North (Christina Rossetti) These songs are intended to fill a gap in the repertoire for female singers. So often female recitalists are forced to sing men's songs (addressed to female lovers!) or, worse, women's songs with texts written by men (as Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben). Three of these songs are love songs written by women from the woman's point of view, including a major poem by Christina Rossetti. The setting of her better-known poem 'A Birthday', written in 2002 for Catherine Bass, is a later addition to this set. First performed by Alison Kettlewell (mezzo-soprano) and John Byrt at East Devon College, Tiverton. ISMN M 708040 33 0 16pp + Colour Laminated cover A4. £6.00 Click here to read a review |
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Sweet Work; A Cycle of Love Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Baritone - John Byrt. ISMN M 708040 00 2 1. My Life's Delight |
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A Birthday - John Byrt: Song for soprano and piano (Christina Rossetti) (also available in a transposition for mezzo-soprano as part of Four Songs by Women Poets - see above) 4pp. A4. £2.00 |
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The Schoolboy; A setting of Blake's poem The Schoolboy for solo voice and piano - Paul Ayres. 8pp. A4. £3.50 |
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Songs of Innocence Op. 46; William Blake's Songs of Innocence set for voice and piano - Neville Bower. 1. Introduction: Piping Down the Valleys Wild 1. (click on the jacket image to view/listen) 2. The Lamb 3. Nurses Song 4. Infant Joy 5. A Cradle Song 6. Spring 7. The Divine Image Programme note 36pp. A4 Full Colour laminated cover. £12.00 |
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Songs of Experience Op. 47; William Blake's Songs of Experience set for voice and piano - Neville Bower. 1. Introduction: Hear the Voice of the Bard! 1. (click on the jacket image to view/listen) 2. Earth's Answer 3. The Clod and the Pebble 4. A Poison Tree 5. The Angel 6. The Garden of Love 7. My Pretty Rose Tree 8. The Sick Rose 9. The Lily 10. Ah! Sunflower 40pp. A4 Full Colour laminated cover. £12.00 |
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Ghosts and Dreams Op.53; A Song Cycle to Words by Thomas Hardy - Neville Bower. 1. A Night in November (click on the jacket image to view/listen) 2. Something Tapped 3. The Head above the Fog 4. An Upbraiding 5. A Thought in Two Moods 6. The Last Performance 7. The Garden Seat These songs were designed as a complete Song Cycle. However, single songs, or a selection from the above (depending on the range of the singer's voice or preference for a particular selection) may also be possible, depending on the artistic discretion of the performer. Most of the songs would favour either a baritone or mezzo voice range. 44pp. A4 Full Colour laminated cover. £12.00 |
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The Dream Follower Op.30; A Song Cycle to Words by Thomas Hardy for counter-tenor and piano - Neville Bower.
1. The Dream Follower 2. In the Mind's Eye (click on the jacket image to view/listen) 3. Read by Moonlight 4. The Sun on the Letter 5. Two Lips 6. In her Precincts 7. Song of Hope 8. To Life 9. I look into my Glass Written for my friend and pupil Andrew Watts. He is said to have performed them whilst on his tours around the world. He sang 'The Sun on the Letter' in a broadcast performance and later (in 2000) sang it in a Wigmore Hall recital. 40pp. A4 Full Colour laminated cover. £12.00 |
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An Epitaph; song for Baritone and Piano - Henry Hardy, words by Walter de la Mare
This work was written many years ago at his home in Exmouth, Devon, when the composer was a teenager. It is compact, clear and simple, but very expressive. Click on the link to the left to view and listen. |
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FREE! Spring and Fall: To a Young Child; song for Baritone and Piano - Henry Hardy, words by Gerard Manley Hopkins A beautiful setting of a well-known poem by the nineteenth-century Welsh Catholic priest-poet. This song was written when the composer was in his early twenties. It is simple and expressive, and is a clear vehicle for the sentiments of the poetry. Click on the link to the left to view, listen and print. For public performance, recording or broadcast, please e-mail |
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FREE! Strained Sonnet for One Highish Baritone, One Lowish Baritone and Piano - Henry Hardy, words by Sir John Davies This light-hearted duet was written in Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho, Southern Africa, in June 1967, when the composer was a volunteer teacher at a school there. Acknowledgements are due to his fellow teacher Mr Mpati's piano (largely out of tune and non-functional), at which the creative act took place. Click on the link to the left to view, listen and print. For public performance, recording or broadcast, please e-mail |
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FREE! Who's Who - Henry Hardy When Isaiah Berlin retired as President of Wolfson College, Oxford, on 13th March 1975, a celebratory dinner was held in the College dining hall. Because of Berlin's love of music, a musical offering seemed appropriate. Hardy had the idea of setting Berlin's entry in 'Who's Who' to music, and Ruth Padel chose the duet between Papageno and Papagena from Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute' as a fitting vehicle for this significant text. Berlin's successor as President, Sir Henry Fisher, played the piano; Ruth Padel sang soprano, Hardy baritone. Click on the link to the left to view, listen and print. For public performance, recording or broadcast, please e-mail |
