This series of five book/online audio access packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert & Sullivan. Each book includes a unique code for access to professionally-recorded pronunciation lessons and piano accompaniments.
Contents: ARNE: When daisies pied • DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love • Flow my tears • Weep you no more, sad fountains • PURCELL: If music be the food of love • Nymphs and Shepherds • QUILTER: Fair House of Joy • It was a lover and his lass • Love's Philosophy • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent Noon • BIZET: Ouvre ton coeur • FAURE: Clair de lune • Mandoline • MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour • BRAHMS: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer • MOZART: Als Luise die Briefe ihres • Ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte • SCHUBERT: An die Nachtigall • SCHUMANN: Du Ring an meinem Finger • RICHARD STRAUSS: Zueignung • BELLINI: Dolente immagine di Fille mia • DONAUDY: O del mio amato ben • SCARLATTI: Cara e dolce • STRADELLA: Se nel ben sempre incostante • DE FALLA: El pano moruno • GRANADOS: La maja dolorosa (2) • MOZART: Voi che sapete • GLUCK: Che faro senza Euridice • SULLIVAN: When Frederic Was a Little Lad • VIVALDI: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris