Songs and opera and oratorio excerpts for voice and piano.
Audio recordings are available online with access code on title page and include diction lessons and piano accompaniments by Laura Ward.
Biographical and historical information on the composers precede each song.
English, French, German, Italian and Spanish words; also printed as text with English translations in caption.
Have you seen but a white lily grow? / Anon. -- Come again, sweet love / John Dowland -- Sea / Edward MacDowell -- I'll sail upon the Dog Star ; If music be the food of love / Henry Purcell -- Weep you no more ; Now sleeps the crimson petal ; Come away, death / Roger Quilter -- Linden lea ; Vagabond / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Lydia ; Secret / Garbiel Fauré -- Plaisir d'amour / Johann-Paul Martini -- O ma belle rebelle / Charles Gounod -- Sonntag / Johnannes Brahms -- Abendempfindung / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Forelle ; Wandrers Nachtlied II / Franz Schubert -- Beiden Grenadiere ; Widmung / Robert Schumann -- Vaga luna, che inargenti / Vincenzo Bellini -- O del mio amato ben / Stefano Donaudy -- Bella porta di rubini / Andrea Falconieri -- Vado ben spesso cangiando loco / Salvator Rosa -- Asturiana / Manuel de Falla -- La mi sola, Laureola / Fernando Obradors -- Cosi fan tutte. Non siate ritrosi ; [From] Die Zauberflöte : Vogelfänger bin ich ja / [From] The pirates of Penzance : I am a pirate king / Arthur Sullivan -- [From] Elijah : For the mountains shall depart / Felix Mendelssohn