'Una voce poco profonda': Curtain up for Trouser Roles and Heroines Whether the voice is lyric light or heavy, whether it can master coloratura, perhaps even has dramatic potential ' in the OperAria mezzo-soprano and alto volumes, singers with a deeper voice and a special talent for the trouser role through to the heroine find everything they need for their performance. Throbbing of the heart' Yes…

Arrangeur: Jeffrey Beyer. Six vocal works arranged for alto flute and piano by Jeffrey Beyer,/ Recueil / Flûte Traversière Alto et Piano

10 Shakespeare settings for mixed voices. Par CHILCOTT BOB. Variety of composers, including Bob Chilcott, Alan Bullard, Howard Skempton, Cecilia McDowall, and Will Todd Accompanied and unaccompanied settings Well-known Shakespeare texts, including 'It was a lover and his lass', 'If music be the food of love', and 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' Beautiful arrangement of Walton's 'Touch he…

for alto voice and string trio. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Incipit Vita Nova (A new life is beginning) was written for male alto and string trio and sets those short phrases that appear in Latin rather than Italian in Dante's La Vita Nuova (New Life). It was composed in February 1989 to celebrate the birth of Vita, the first child of my friends Erica and Robert Hewison. I had decided to write the piece lon…

Take your singing to the next level with the exciting additions to the student repertoire featured in this book and 2 x CD set.Continuing from The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos - Part II, The Second Book of Mezzo-Soprano/Alto Solos contains over 30 songs that require a little more vocal range and musical sophistication but are still decidedly student material. / Mezzo-Soprano

Mezzo Ou Alto. Par VASSILIEVA ELENA. Ces vocalises sont faites pour trouver la virtuosité de sa voix, et sa fluidité dans une écriture d'aujourd'hui. Vous y trouverez quelques fondamentaux comme les grands intervalles, la longue tessiture, pour toutes les voix, le chromatisme, le tempo rapide vocalisé, les slanci ou glissati, les quarts de tons, les nuances ainsi que les tenuti pianissimi ou encor…

für Solo-Holzblasinstrument und Streicher / Einzelstimme. Par REICHE JOHANNES. / Répertoire / Violon I, Violon II, Alto, Violoncelle et Contreba

Par AHO KALEVI. In spring 2020, coronavirus began spreading throughout the world and in many places people were subjected to quarantine. It was then that Hiyoli Togawa, a violist, proposed that the BIS record label release a viola disc entitled Songs of Solitude of short compositions by different contemporary composers, as a sort of reflection of the present time and offering comfort to listeners …

(2 Sopranos, 2 Contraltos avec Accompagnement d'Orgue). Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. / Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Par BERIO LUCIANO. From Berio's program notes: 'In one episode, namely Il Campo (The Field), from my azione musicale Cronaca del Luogo, there is a virtual love duet. Two voices and several instruments 'fall in love' and follow one another in a constantly renewing relationship. As we all know, in true polyphony each voice contributes to the whole yet retains its own identity, if not complete autono…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…

for four male voices. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Glorious Hill may be performed by a male choir. Text by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1497) from De Hominis Dignitate. Glorious Hill was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble and first performed by them at its summer Festival of Voices in Lewes, Sussex, in August 1988. It was the first piece I wrote for the ensemble and I focused on the singers' unique abilit…