Soprano voice and piano - advanced - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q45888

By Robert Schumann (1852). Composed by Robert Schumann. Arranged by Aribert Reimann. This edition: single sheet. Downloadable, Separate edition. Op. 135. Duration 9 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q45888. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q45888).

German • English • French • Italian.

Two things in particular link Aribert Reimann with Robert Schumann, whom he much admires: their interest in the dark side of human existence and their great commitment to literature. The both took an interest in the poems by the Scottish queen Mary Stuart written at the end of her life during her imprisonment. For a long time, Reimann had cherished the wish to orchestrate the lieder by Schumann based on these poems, ‘but I always lacked in courage […] to break up the rather barren piano part which is formally self-contained and complete in itself’. But while working on Sieben Fragmente für Orchester in 1988, he decided to take the risk. And although Schumann‘s music is never really touched, Reimann succeeds in bringing the deeply moving expression of the lieder even closer to the listener.

Seinen letzten Zyklus für Singstimme und Klavier komponierte Robert Schumann 1852 auf eine deutsche Übersetzung von Gisbert Freiherr von Vincke. Indem Aribert Reimann die Singstimme der fünf Gedichte mit ihren je unterschiedlichen Originalsprachen in Französisch, Italienisch, Englisch und Latein unterlegt, erscheint nicht nur die historische Figur der schottischen Königin Maria Stuart, sondern auch die Musik Schumanns in neuem, polyglotten Licht.

High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.893973

Composed by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Contemporary,Holiday,Musical/Show. 14 pages. Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal #6331901. Published by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal (A0.893973).

Commissioned by Colleen Daly for the St. Louis Concert series
Text by Rabindranath Tagore

Where have I come from, where did you pick me up? the baby asked its mother.
She answered, half crying, half laughing, and clasping the baby to her breast-
You were hidden in my heart as its desire, my darling.
You were in the dolls of my childhood's games; and when with clay I made the image of my god every morning, I made the unmade you then.
You were enshrined with our household deity, in his worship I worshipped you.
In all my hopes and my loves, in my life, in the life of my mother you have lived.
In the lap of the deathless Spirit who rules our home you have been nursed for ages.
When in girlhood my heart was opening its petals, you hovered as a fragrance about it.
Your tender softness bloomed in my youthful limbs, like a glow in the sky before the sunrise.
Heaven's first darling, twain-born with the morning light, you have floated down the stream of the world's life, and at last you have stranded on my heart.
As I gaze on your face, mystery overwhelms me; you who belong to all have become mine.
For fear of losing you I hold you tight to my breast. What magic has snared the world's treasure in these slender arms of mine? ​

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.884917

Composed by Henry Purcell. Arranged by Jonathan Prentice. Baroque. 6 pages. Jonathan Prentice #6435379. Published by Jonathan Prentice (A0.884917).

This famous, Purcell aria is one of only two items he composed for Richard Norton’s tragedy, Pausanius, Betrayer of His Country. Sung by the courtesan, Pandora, it was intended as a steamy seduction song with a slow, languorous start and gradually building to a passionate vivo ending. (Here in C Minor, suitable for sopranos)

 

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.884916

Composed by Henry Purcell. Arranged by Jonathan Prentice. Baroque. 6 pages. Jonathan Prentice #6435375. Published by Jonathan Prentice (A0.884916).

This famous, Purcell aria is one of only two items he composed for Richard Norton’s tragedy, Pausanius, Betrayer of His Country. Sung by the courtesan, Pandora, it was intended as a steamy seduction song with a slow, languorous start and gradually building to a passionate vivo ending. (Here in B Minor, suitable for sopranos)

 

Soprano voice and piano - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q40373

After poems by Friedrich Hölderlin. Composed by Detlev Mueller-Siemens. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 12 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q40373. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q40373).

German.

Two poems of Friedrich Hölderlin bearing almost the same title form the basis of the text for 'Zwei Lieder' (Two Songs): 'Die Aussicht' and 'Aussicht'. Unlike as with common musical settings of poems, Detlev Müller-Siemens has split the vocal part in two levels. On the one hand, Hölderlin's text is recited, on the other hand, fragments of the poems are sung at a lower, contemplative level. 'Like vague memories, ascending from the inside from afar. An idyll that becomes entangled in its own images.'.

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.884861

Composed by Alfredo Catalani. Arranged by Jonathan Prentice. Opera,Romantic Period. 5 pages. Jonathan Prentice #5970399. Published by Jonathan Prentice (A0.884861).

The stunning aria sung by the eponymous La Wally in Act 1 of Catalani's tragic opera. Told she has to agree to an arranged marriage of leave home by her father, she mournfully contemplates having to abandon her beloved mother and home. (Here  in Eb Major, a semitone lower than the original).

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.884862

Composed by Alfredo Catalani. Arranged by Jonathan Prentice. Opera,Romantic Period. 5 pages. Jonathan Prentice #5970405. Published by Jonathan Prentice (A0.884862).

The stunning aria sung by the eponymous La Wally in Act 1 of Catalani's tragic opera. Told she has to agree to an arranged marriage of leave home by her father, she mournfully contemplates having to abandon her beloved mother and home. (Here  in D Major, a tone lower than the original).

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.884742

Composed by Alfredo Catalani. Arranged by Jonathan Prentice. Romantic Period. 5 pages. Jonathan Prentice #5795761. Published by Jonathan Prentice (A0.884742).

The stunning aria sung by the eponymous La Wally in Act 1 of Catalani's tragic opera. Told she has to agree to an arranged marriage of leave home by her father, she mournfully contemplates having to abandon her beloved mother and home. (Here  in the original E Major).

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.953635

Composed by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP). Contemporary,Sacred,World. 16 pages. Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) #6883999. Published by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) (A0.953635).

Hot off the press! Dramatic, almost operatic song for soprano and piano (with rattle and mallet) that brings to life the tragic story of two Coahuilteco sisters sold into slavery during the Spanish mission era in Texas 

I am worth nothing (2022), a song for soprano and piano by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP)

Commissioned by Inversion Ensemble for Eternal Graffiti April 9, 2022, Austin, Texas

Program note: Commissioned by Inversion Ensemble and composed by Adrienne Inglis, I am worth nothing sets a stunning Coahuilteco/English poem by Texas poet Lisa Kay Adam. From the phrase Pīntci nak�mmam ax�m (I am worth nothing), Adam creates a vivid story of two young Coahuiltecan sisters and their encounters with newly arrived Spanish settlers and mission priests in the eighteenth century. Musically, the florid phrases and haunting modalities join with the sounds of drums and melancholic bells to paint a picture of exploitation, early death, and a lost way of life in the western gulf coastal plains.

Text: I am not worthy - Pīntci nak�mmam ax�m, poem by Lisa Kay Adam from her book xu�i: mission, house, village, town, published in 2018 by Lamar University Literary Press, used with permission

Duration: 9:06 (at most)
World premiere: Eternal Graffiti with soprano Katrina Saporsantos and pianist Benjamin Dia April 9, 2022 Austin, Texas

https://www.chaskimusic.com/adrienne

Soprano voice and piano - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q32132

Ballad from the opera The Golden Dragon. Composed by Peter Eotvos. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q32132. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q32132).

German • English.

The Long Journey, the final monologue of the opera The Golden Dragon based on the eponymous play by Roland Schimmelpfennig, has been given the air of a ballad. A young Chinese works illegally in an Asian restaurant of Anytown. Not having a health insurance, he bleeds to death after a botched dental operation. His colleagues throw his body into the river which runs through the town and carries the body to the sea. He floats back to his home country – this last journey is the theme of the monologue.

Soprano voice and piano - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q6176

Fragment from Das Urteil (The Judgement) by Franz Kafka. Composed by Christian Jost. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 7 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6176. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6176).

German.

Kafka's œuvre is interspersed with moments of utter anxiety. Moments in which, induced by adrenalin, the blood pressure rises. Blood vessels which seem to constrict, pump enormous quantities of blood the pressure of which might make one believe that the head is going to explode. In The Judgment, an innocent opening story leads to one of the most unusual showdowns in world literature: The beloved father sentences his son to death by drowning; the son immediately obeys since his life, his existence almost explodes, becomes blurred, dissolves at the moment the judgment is pronounced. For me, the 'self' driving him – I imagine this as a high sound in the inner ear – could only be a soprano. This is why the actual 'fall' has turned out to be clear, almost friendly and why Georg only seems to want to breathe a soft and quiet 'Dear parents, I have always loved you' during the fall while no longer keeping the singing tone, shortly before death, almost casually, takes hold of him. Christian Jost.

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.960845

Composed by Peggy Peppers. Christian,Holiday. 8 pages. Peggy J Peppers #3075679. Published by Peggy J Peppers (A0.960845).

This song encourages you to keep on praying, even if you see no results...
The answer to your prayers goes even beyond the grave and into Eternity.