The ABRSM Songbook series offers singers and their teachers an unrivalled choice of core repertoire that will provide the bedrock for many years of rewarding vocal study.
Book with 2CDs.
Features:
- Art songs, drawn from Grade 3 of the Associated Boards Singing syllabus
- A range of repertoire from the Medieval to modern musicals - many in practical new editions
- Irresistible new arrangements by Carol Barratt of classic songs
- Authentic unaccompanied traditional songs, sourced from around the world
- English singing translations for every non-English-language song - many newly-commissioned
- Useful notes on the songs containing background information and performance suggestions
- CDs of piano accompaniments to all the art songs, performed by Simon Lepper, as well as recordings of the text to every song, performed by native speakers
Contents
- Art Songs
- Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love Henry Purcell
- Dalmatian Cradle Song Anon., Arr. Hugh S. Roberton
- Die Bekehrte Ignaz Brull
- Ferry me across the water Gerald Finzi
- God be in my head Walford Davies
- I'm learning to read Betty Roe
- In the garden flowers are growing Ukrainian Traditional, Arr. W. H. Anderson
- Komm, liebe Zither, komm Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Llwyn Onn Welsh Traditional, Arr. Carol Barratt
- Minnelied Franz Schubert
- 'Orrible Little Blue-Eyes Betty Roe
- My House Leonard Bernstein
- Sicilian River Song Anon., Arr. Maurice Jacobson
- Sweet and Low Joseph Barnby
- The Banks of Allan Water Martin Shaw, Arr. Carol Barratt
- The Owls Peter Jenkyns
- The Path to the Moon Eric H. Thiman
- The Sunflower Irish Traditional, Arr. Carol Barratt
- Wiegenlied Wilhelm Taubert, Arr. Carol Barratt
- Windy Nights Charles Villiers Stanford
- Traditional Songs
- Aa Ola, Ola, min eigen onge! Norway
- A la nanita nana Spain
- All things are quite silent Sussex, England
- Coasts of Barbary Devon, England
- Cuckoo Devon, England
- Fengyang huagu 1 and 2 Anhui Province, China
- Green Besoms Devon, England
- Kalevalainen runosavelma Finland
- Roman Castillo Mexico
- Seventeen Come Sunday Sussex, England
- Stole mi se ozeni Serbia
- Sweet Nightingale Cornwall, England