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A critical-technical anthology for vocal study for mezzo-soprano - baritone. Includes vocal exercises by Marco Bordogni, Girolamo Crescentini, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Nicolo Porpora and more. In Italian

This song is from a projected musical film created by director/writer Margaret Constantas. On the Wentloog Levels near Cardiff, two artisan shoemakers, husband and wife, have fallen on hard times. Their

Six songs exploring various topics, some with spiritual content, set to poems by Anne S. Watson.  Very good for the student of art songs; the performer of art songs. Medium difficulty for both singer

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is a musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

Based on inscriptions found on tombstones in cemeteries throughout England, this cycle of six songs for bass-baritone and piano is the co-winner of the 1998 NATS (National Association of Teachers of

The text of Juliana Hall's musical setting for baritone and piano is the famous sonnet The New Colossus by American poet Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and now inscribed on a plaque on the

Inspired by the great classical song cycles that use poetry about nature, Sara Teasdale's text provides descriptive poetry that Esenvalds sets beautifully and expressively. The phrases are short, which

Winter Windows is a cycle of songs that each offer a "window" into a different wintry scene. There is, of course, a snow-man, and there are snowflakes and fields piled high in snow drifts, but the

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) dedicated his "Cien Sonetos de Amor" to his wife, and it remains among the world's most revered collections of love poems. Among these hundred poems is the gorgeous