Strange actually how many Irish composers there are around at the moment. For a change to a Scottish composer, you might want to look at some Judith Weir, maybe the Songs from the Exotic, published by Chester.
Colin Reed, tenor Newark, UK
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Mercedes" <dalila@R...> From: "Karen Mercedes" <dalila@R...> To: "Stephen Pascoe" <stephenp@m...> To: "Stephen Pascoe" <stephenp@m...> Cc: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com> Cc: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com> Sent: 18 December 2000 03:11 Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Living british song composer
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Stephen Pascoe wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am returning to vocalist after several years and I see that you have > > been forced into excile. Egroups has excellent facilities for email > > lists such as this one but isn't vocalist-temporary a somewhat > > misleading title since you seemed to have been based here for some > > time. > > > > Back to the matter at hand. I need a song by a living british > > composer for part of a competition recital I'm preparing. So far my > > rep. knowledge has been found wanting. My voice type is, if I may say > > so, a full bodied but lyric baritone. > > > > Julian Anderson: "I'm nobody, who are you?" for tenor or high baritone, > violin, and piano (Faber Music, hire www.fabermusic.co.uk) > > Jonathan Harvey: "Lullaby for the Unsleeping" for medium voice and piano > (Faber Music, hire) > > David Matthews: "Coastal Stations" (song cycle) for medium voice and piano > (Faber Music, hire) > > David Matthews: "Spell of Sleep" for baritone, clarinet, and piano (Faber > Music, hire) > > Dominic Muldowney: "Songs from THE GOOD PERSON OF SICHUAN" for medium > voice, piano, and optional alto saxophone (Faber Music, sale) > > Andrew Downes: "Casterbridge Fair" Opus 1 (song cycle) for baritone and > piano (Lynwood Music downlyn@g...) > > John McLeod: "The White Flame" (song cycle) for baritone and piano > (Griffin Music griffin.music@b...) > > Ronald Stevenson: "Eight Selected Soutar Songs" for medium voice with > piano (Ronald Stevenson Society) > > Ronald Stevenson: "Hills of Home" for baritone with piano (Ronald > Stevenson Society) > > Ronald Stevenson: "Selected MacDiarmid Songs", vol 1 for medium/high > voice and vol 3 for baritone with piano (Ronald Stevenson Society) > > Ronald Stevenson: "Four Morgenstern Songs" for medium/high voice with > piano (Ronald Stevenson Society RSS@m...) > > David Bedford: "O Now the Drench Land Awakes" for baritone and piano > (Universal Edition) > > David Bedford: "Epitaphs" for baritone and piano (David Bedford) > > > You could also look at the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland website: > http://www.cmc.ie/composers/index_of_irish_composers.html > > > > > Karen Mercedes > ===== > My NEIL SHICOFF Website: > http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html > > My Website: > http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html > > ----- > Es en balde, majo mio, que sigas hablando > porque hay cosas que contesto yo > siempre cantando: > Tra la la... > Por mas que preguntes tanto: > tra la la... > En mi no causas quebranto > ni yo he de salir de mi canto: > tra la la... > > - Fernando Periquet >
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