Texts by Pat Solstad. In four movements:

Songlist: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer

A set of seven choral pieces based on whimsical doggerel verses by John Keats. Published as separate movements in 1969, this work is now available as a complete set for the first time.

Songlist: The Devon Maid, In Praise Of Apollo, On Visiting Oxford, A Party Of Lovers At Tea, Sharing Eve's Apple, There Was A Naughty Boy, Two Or Three Posies

Six beautiful and challenging original works by Dominick Argento. The works with Swedish text have English translations.

Songlist: So I'll Sing With My Voice, Vi Lofve Dig, O Store Gud, There's Singing Up In Heaven, EnDag Skall Uppga For Var Syn, What Can That Shadow Be, a Ar Fulkkomnadt, Jesu Kar

Pulitzer Prize winning composer Dominick Argento displays a natural dramatic impulse with this 4 1/2 minute piece for double mixed chorus a cappella.

This witty song cycle, premiered in 1998, is a setting of prose by etiquette columnist Judith Martin (Miss Manners) about attending a concert, a ballet, and other music related advice. Contents: I. Prologue - II. Manners at a Concert - III. Manners at the Ballet - IV. Manners for Contemporary Music - V. Manners at a Church Recital - VI. Manners at the Opera - VII. Envoi

Songlist: PROLOGUE, MANNERS AT A CONCERT, MANNERS AT THE BALLET, MANNERS FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, MANNERS AT A CHURCH RECITAL, MANNERS AT THE OPERA, ENVOI

Contents: Spring - Sleep - Winter - Dirge - Diaphenia - Hymn. Includes composer commentary and access to companion recorded piano accompaniments online for download or streaming.

This lyric American master is celebrated in comprehensive collections of some of the greatest achievements in setting words to music in the 20th century. Fascinating, extensive essays by the composer give fresh insights into these masterworks. The Medium/Low Voice edition includes the first published transpositions of Songs About Spring and Six Elizabethan Songs. Contents: SONGS ABOUT SPRING: Who Knows if the Moon's a Balloon - Spring is like a Perhaps Hand - In Just-Spring - In Spring Comes - When Faces Called Flowers Float out of the Ground - SIX ELIZABETHAN SONGS: Spring - Sleep - Winter - Dirge - Diaphenia - Hymn - LETTERS FROM COMPOSERS - Frederic Chopin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Franz Schubert - Johann Sebastian Bach - Claude Debussy - Giacomo Puccini - Robert Schumann - TO BE SUNG UPON THE WATER: Prologue: Shadow and Substance - The Lake at Evening - Music on the Water - Fair is the Swan - In Remembrance of Schubert - Hymn Near the Rapids - The Lake at Night - Epilogue: De Profundis - MISS MANNERS ON MUSIC: Prologue - Manners at a Concert - Manners at the Ballet - Manners for Contemporary Music - Manners at a Church Recital - Manners at the Opera - Envoi

Songlist: Songs about Spring, Six Elizabethan Songs, Miss Manners on Music, Letters from Composers, To Be Sung Upon the Water

This lyric American master is celebrated in comprehensive collections of some of the greatest achievements in setting words to music in the 20th century. Fascinating, extensive essays by the composer give fresh insights into these masterworks. The Medium/Low Voice edition includes the first published transpositions of Songs about Spring and Six Elizabethan Songs. Contents: SONGS ABOUT SPRING: Who Knows if the Moon's a Balloon - Spring is like a Perhaps Hand - In Just-spring - In Spring Comes - When Faces Called Flowers Float out of the Ground - SIX ELIZABETHAN SONGS: Spring - Sleep - Winter - Dirge - Diaphenia - Hymn - FROM THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: The Diary - Anxiety - Fancy - Hardy's Funeral - Rome - War - Parents - Last Entry - THE ANDREE EXPEDITION: PART ONE: IN THE AIR: Prologue - the Balloon Rises - Pride and Ambition - Dinner Aloft - The Unforeseen Problem - the Flight Aborted - PART TWO: ON THE ICE: Mishap with a Sledge - The King's Jubilee - Illness and Drugs - Hallucinations - Anna's Birthday - Epilogue - Final Words - CASA GUIDI: Casa Guidi - The Italian Cook and the English Maid - Robert Browning - The Death of Mr. Barrett - Domesticity - MISS MANNERS ON MUSIC: Prologue - Manners at a Concert - Manners at the Ballet - Manners for Contemporary Music - Manners at a Church Recital - Manners at the Opera - Envoi

Songlist: Songs about Spring, Six Elizabethan Songs, From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, The Andree Expedition, Casa Guidi, Miss Manners on Music

Five songs from the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, Six Elizabethan Songs, Songs about Spring, and more. For female voice and singing male accompanist. Words and music by the composer. Contents: 1. Who Could Have Known? - 2. You Are a Love Song - 3. The Luckiest Woman - 4. Sai Tu Perche - 5a. You - 5b. Crazy Lady - 5c. You and Crazy Lady

Songlist: 1. Who Could Have Known?, 2. You Are A Love Song, 3. The Luckiest Woman, 4. Sai Tu Perchè, 5a. You, 5b. Crazy Lady, 5c. You °and° Crazy Lady

Contents: Spring - Sleep - Winter - Dirge - Diaphenia - Hymn. Includes composer commentary and access to companion recorded piano accompaniments online for download or streaming.

This 20-minute cycle was premiered in 1996 by Frederica von Stade, Håkan Hagegård and Martin Katz. With a text based on letters and a memoir, it communicates the relationship of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper from their meeting in 1898, through their marriage, to his untimely death in 1904. An orchestrated version (2001) is available on rental from Boosey & Hawkes.

Three sonnets, premiered in 2007, which represent the beginning, middle and end of the poet's unrequited love for a married woman named Laura. 10 minutes.

The composer created this version of Six Elizabethan Songs a few years after the original voice and piano composition. He has stated that he prefers the voice and chamber ensemble version. Previously available only on rental, this set of facsimile parts is now available for sale. For high voice, flute, oboe, violin, violoncello, harpsichord. The corresponding original voice and piano publication is 48008386.

Written for the 25th anniversary of the Dale Warland Singers, Walden Pond employs excerpts of Henry David Thoreau's transcendentalist text in five movements. 25 minutes. Instrumental parts available separately (HL48020840).

Dominick Argento's Cenotaph was the American Choral Directors Association's Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission for its 2009 national convention in Oklahoma City. A cenotaph is defined as a monument to someone buried elsewhere, and the cenotaphs found in America-and indeed across the world-have inspired Argento's writing. This newly-commissioned work uses a collage of textual sources, and employs the composer's signature harmonic language and melodic beauty. From the initial muted rumblings of a crowd awaiting a parade to the broad a cappella textures of its internal movements, Cenotaph commemorates those who have given their lives for their countries, no matter what that country happens to be.

Argento has crafted a five-movement suite from his 1964 opera The Masque of Angels. Designed as a mini choral drama, it includes a Processional for the angels; the well-known Gloria; the colorful Arrival of the Archangels; a majestic Sanctus; and a joyful Recessional. Best for larger ensembles, this suite is a showcase for magnificent choral sound. Orchestra parts are available on rental.

Contents: I hate and I love - Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love - Greetings, miss, with nose not small - My woman says she will be no one's - Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya - You promise me, my dearest life - Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness - I hate and I love.

Songlist: I HATE AND I LOVE, LET US LIVE, MY CLODIA, AND LET US LOVE, GREETINGS, MISS, WITH NOSE NOT SMALL, MY WOMAN SAYS SHE WILL BE NO ONE'S, WAS IT A LIONESS FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF LIBYA, YOU PROMISE ME, MY DEAREST LIFE, WRETCHED CATULLUS, PUT AN END TO THIS MADNESS

for Tenor and Bass soli, mixed chorus, narrator and instrumental ensemble.