Vocal Chamber Music Scores from bookarrest

Albany, New York: Albany Records, 2003. CD in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. 5.5" x 5. TROY576. Composer Berg lived and worked for many years in Paris, and this is reflected in these engaging vocal-piano works. CONTENTS: Please see my accompanying scan image of the Track List. Total Time: 53:58. CONDITION: A Fine CD with Fine jewelcase, booklet, and tray insert.… Read more about this item

Albany, New York: Albany Records, 2008. CD in Jewel Case. Fine/Fine. 5.5" x 5. TROY 1032. Three gifted American composers here offer vocal chamber works based on and reflecting American themes - from the Civil War, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Whitman. CONTENTS: Please see my accompanying scan image of the Track List. Total Time: 55:43. CONDITION: A Fine… Read more about this item

New Rochelle, New York: Bridge Records, 2007. CD in Jewel Case. Fine/Fine. 5.5" x 5. Bridge 9240. Five engaging chamber works by the gifted American composer, here persuasively performed by the 21st Century Consort, conducted by Christopher Kendall, freaturing soprano Christine Schadeberg and baritone William Sharp. CONTENTS: Please see my accompanying scan image of the Track List. Total… Read more about this item

Oak Park, Illinois: Composer-Produced, 1973. Plastic Comb with Card Covers. Very Good. 9.75" x 12.5. Ray Wilding-White (1922-2001), born in England, grew up in the USA and began music study at Juilliard after WWII. His main composition teachers were Aaron Copland and Luigi Dallapiccola. These 8 songs (most for just one soprano) are prime examples of his avant-garde… Read more about this item

London, UK: London - Decca - BMG, 1988. CD in Jewel Case. Fine/Fine. 5.5" x 5. London D 115163. The inimitable Ute Lemper offers 14 revelatory Kurt Weill song interpretations, accompanied here by the RIAS Berlin Kammerensemble, conducted by John Mauceri. CONTENTS: Please see my accompanying scan image of the Track List. Total Time: 50:17. CONDITION: A… Read more about this item

Berkeley, California: Well Tempered Productions, 1997. CD in Jewel Case. Near Fine/Fine. 5.5" x 5. An **AUTOGRAPHED COPY of WTP 5183**. A very personal and beautifully sung interpretation of Schubert's great Wilhelm Muller song cycle, featuring California-born baritone Christopheren Nomura, ably accompanied by pianist Kayo Iwama. CONTENTS: Please see my accompanying scan image of the Track List. Total… Read more about this item

New York: Peer International Corporation, 1936. Sheet Music. Near Fine. 9" x 12. An Argentinian tango gem - very scarce in this vocal format. 4 pages. CONDITION: A bright, unmarked, uncreased Near Fine copy with light edge-wear and a price sticker on the front cover. This treasure is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with archival backing… Read more about this item

Udmurtia Autonomous SSR: Composer-Produced, 1982. Plastic Comb Binding. Very Good. 8.5" x 11. An engaging (and exceedingly rare) song cycle of six Pushkin settings for tenor voice and piano, by the gifted Udmurtian composer. Shabalin's official Soviet Composer Brochure includes biographical information and a list of his compositions through 1987. 24+4 pages. CONDITION: Although the cover page of… Read more about this item

Aquava New Music Studio, 2019. CDs in Deluxe Gatefold Case. Fine. 5.5" x 5. [CD1-20193-T] A collection of powerful microtonal vocal chamber works on the poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, recorded by the Aquava New Music Studio - Carmen-Helena Tellez, Director - and featuring Gregory Jon Geehern (conductor), Tony Boutte (tenor), Hyona Kim (mezzo-soprano), Bridget… Read more about this item

New York: Seesaw Music Corp., 1976. Assumed First Edition . Staple-Bound. Very Good. 9.5" X 13. Captivating vocal chamber music miniatures, setting Richard Wilbur's excellent translations of Latin riddles of Symphosius, author of the "Aenigmata". CONTENTS: Prelude [1] Hobnail, [2] Onion, [3] Mother of Twins; Interlude; [4] Chicks in the Shell, [5] Saw, [6] Stairs; Postlude. 10 pages.… Read more about this item

Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russian Federation: Publishing House "Letter S, 2009. Hard Cover - Pictorial. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (Other ISBN: 5913960300) A treasure-trove of Russian folk songs, handsomely presented via score and lyrics. CONTENTS: See accompanying scan image of the Table of Contents. 512+ pages. CONDITION: The pictorial Hardcovers are in Fine condition, but… Read more about this item

Kiev, Ukraine: G. Safanov, 2013. First Issue . CD & Booklet in Card-Case. Fine (As New)/Fine. 5.5" x 7.5. Zinaida Likhacheva (artwork). [K 751870n3G] A remarkable selection of beautifully-performed Silvertrov songs - many not recorded elsewhere. CD CONTENTS: See accompanying scan images of the Table of Contents (23 songs plus "4 Bagatelles for Violin and Piano", with the… Read more about this item

New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1957. Assumed First Edition . Sheet Music. Very Good. 9" x 12. A remarkable song by the great American composer Aaron Copland,"Written especially in honor of Nadia Boulanger's fiftieth year of teaching." and dated 1954. CONDITION: A Very Good Minus copy, unmarked but for a "Complimentary Copy" stamp on the cover. The upper-right… Read more about this item

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University School of Music, 1992. First Edition - Only Printing . CD in Jewel Case. New (Very Fine)/New (Very Fine). 5.5" x 5. IUSM-04. Six remarkable compositions by this eminent American microtonalist, recorded from performances at the Indiana University School of Music between 1985 and 1989. CONTENTS: See accompanying scan of the Track List.… Read more about this item

Kiev, Ukraine: Interval Ukrainian Records, 2003. First Edition - First Printing . CD in Jewel Case. Fine/Fine. 5.5" x 5. A very different and uniquely engaging interpretation of Schoenberg's 1912 atonal masterpiece, subtitled "Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'" - the poems translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben. The narrator role is performed by… Read more about this item

New York: Michael Keane, Inc., 1937. First Edition . Sheet Music. Fair. 9.25" x 12.25. An enchanting art-song by this mid-20th-century New-York-based composer and pianist, setting words of the English Poet Laureate John Masefield (1878-1967). This low-voice score's range is Bb to D(with optional F). 8 pages. CONDITION: This score definitely shows it age, with chipped/stained spine upper… Read more about this item

New York: Simrock Edition - Associated Music Publishers. First American Edition . Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 9" x 12. First American publication (1920s?) of the original 1896 Simrock edition. This is the Master's final cycle of songs, composed in Vienna in 1896 for Clara Schumann, setting Biblical texts: (1) Denn es gehet dem Menschen (It is for a… Read more about this item

New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1962. Sheet Music. Near Fine. 9" x 12. Two art-songs by one of America's masters of the genre. The "O mistress mine" score is in DbM/Bbm (range: C to G) - Vivace - quarter = 144. "Three Husbands" (Epitaph No.9) is in CM (range: C to G) - Allegro vivace, 5/4 meter. 6… Read more about this item

Self-Published, 1991. Assumed First Edition . Large Softcover. Near Fine. 16.5" x 11.5. This remarkable avant-garde chamber ensemble work - by the Korean-Canadian composer Gideon Gee-Bum Kim (born 1964) - is scored for mezzo soprano, flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, piano. harp, celesta, percussion I & II, violin, and cello. It is dedicated "for the glory of God" and… Read more about this item

Boston: Charles W. Homeyer & Co., 1927. First English Edition . Sheet Music. Fair. 9" x 12. C.W.H. 299 (for medium voice - preceding the 1929 Oliver Ditson high-voice edition) - a Fair condition vintage score, along with a complimentary new photocopy. From Cui's 1899 cycle of 25 Pushkin songs, this is a beautiful, sensitive setting of the… Read more about this item