French delicate music of a delicate health.
Franz Ries
Violinist and Publisher.
Alfred Bruneau
“Liberty of the phrase, liberty of inspiration, liberty of art, liberty of form, liberty complete, magnificent and definitive!”
Wilhelm Stenhammar
One of the most important Swedish composers.
Pauline Viardot
The world has finally found a woman composer of genius.
Julian Aguirre
Argentinian composer loving folklore.
Charles-Marie Widor
Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity.
Panscho Vladigerov
“A work like this is written only once in a hundred years!”
Ignaz Brüll
When Brahms wanted to try out his latest orchestral compositions to a select group of connoisseurs in four-handed versions for two pianos, Brüll regularly played alongside the senior composer.
Heinrich Dorn
His opera “Die Nibelungen”, was premiered in 1854, conducted by Franz Liszt, and was a huge success.
Niels Wilhelm Gade
One of the most important Danish composers.
August Bungert
German composer in the presence of a queen.
Gabriel Dupont
French delicate music of a delicate health.
Franz Ries
Violinist and Publisher.
Charles-Marie Widor
Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity.
Panscho Vladigerov
“A work like this is written only once in a hundred years!”
Marion Bauer
One of the first american students of Nadia Boulanger.
Hector Panizza
‘Attacca!’
Vítezslava Kaprálová
One of the most important female Czech composers.
Erich Meyer-Helmund
…lots and lots of popular songs and salon pieces, performed by Lotte Lehmann, Joseph Schmidt, Fritz Kreisler and later Fritz Wunderlich, only to name a few.
Charles Griffes
American composer somewhere between romanticism, impressionism and very modern music.
Emil Sjögren
Great, Nordic-romantic songs with a strong french flavor in many different languages.
Max Bruch
Regarding intimacy, originality and beauty – nothing compares to a folk song
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Music is music whether composed for the stage, the conductor’s desk or for the cinema.
Scott Gendel
American composer with a fondness for all things involving the human voice
Ellen Mandel
“Ardent, spiky, and refreshingly organic.”
Jenni Pinnock
Her song Bells in the Rain was composed especially for The Art Song Project.
Daron Hagen
Washing her hair Never pain to tell thy love Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee in 1961 and has been a New Yorker since 1984. He taught himself to read …
Joseph Eidson
I do pride myself with writing pieces that performers enjoy playing
Thomas Deneuville
Recognizing the need for social involvement from composers in an ever faster world, Thomas tries to create a genuine connection with his audiences while raising awareness on societal issues.
Gabriel Dupont Le silence de l’eau / The silence of the waters
Le silence de l’eau, lyrics by Fernand Gregh le grand jet d’eau qui sanglotait Nuit et jour, âme inconsolée Sous la voute à demi croulée Est mort cette nuit et …
Franz Ries Das verlassene Mägdlein / The foresaken maiden
Früh, wenn die Hähne kräh’n,
Eh’ die Sternlein verschwinden,
Muß ich am Herde stehn,
Muß Feuer zünden.
Franz Ries Nachtlied / Night song
Dürft’ ich mit dir dort oben gehn?
Alfred Bruneau La Sarabande
You would dance, you bastards,
Another Sarabande
Two feet above the cobblestone.
Alfred Bruneau La Pavane
Splendour golden and red and blue
Of a nameless diamond
The peacock miraculously
Unfolds its wide tail
Alfred Bruneau Le Passe-pied
C’est pour ta bouche…Que je me meurs!
Julian Aguirre Caminito / Path
Path, path
so like my sorrow
as if someone had written it
with my tears in the sand
Charles-Marie Widor Ritournelle/Refrain
And love will enhance our fantasy,
Making on this day summer even fairer
I’ll be poet, and you poetry
Wilhelm Stenhammar Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte/The girl came from meeting her lover
“Why are your hands so red, my girl?”
The girl said: “I was picking roses
and stung my hands on the thorns.”
Wilhelm Stenhammar Till en ros / To a rose
Oh, he is far away from me
behind the leaves of three forests,
behind the waves of three rivers.
Wilhelm Stenhammar I skogen / In the forest
But teach me, little violet, sweet as yours
a sorrow when happiness has ended.
Pauline Viardot L’absence / The absence
Without rest, without hope?
Does living mean suffering?
Gabriel Dupont
French delicate music of a delicate health.
Franz Ries
Violinist and Publisher.
Alfred Bruneau
“Liberty of the phrase, liberty of inspiration, liberty of art, liberty of form, liberty complete, magnificent and definitive!”
Wilhelm Stenhammar
One of the most important Swedish composers.
Pauline Viardot
The world has finally found a woman composer of genius.
Julian Aguirre
Argentinian composer loving folklore.
Charles-Marie Widor
Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity.
Panscho Vladigerov
“A work like this is written only once in a hundred years!”
Ignaz Brüll
When Brahms wanted to try out his latest orchestral compositions to a select group of connoisseurs in four-handed versions for two pianos, Brüll regularly played alongside the senior composer.
Marion Bauer
One of the first american students of Nadia Boulanger.
Richard Heuberger
Engineer turned musician.
Heinrich Dorn
His opera “Die Nibelungen”, was premiered in 1854, conducted by Franz Liszt, and was a huge success.
Pauline Viardot
The world has finally found a woman composer of genius.
Marion Bauer
One of the first american students of Nadia Boulanger.
Amanda Maier
Swedish composeress and violinist.
Ellen Mandel
“Ardent, spiky, and refreshingly organic.”
Vítezslava Kaprálová
One of the most important female Czech composers.
Amy Beach
It has happened more than once that a composition has come to me, ready-made as it were, between the demands of other work.
Jenni Pinnock
Her song Bells in the Rain was composed especially for The Art Song Project.
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
“(Grieg should be…) going down on his knees begging her to deliver him from his occasional vulgarity.”
Florence B. Price
The first African-American woman composer to earn national recognition.
Florence Aylward
“undoubtedly one of the finest accompanist of the day”
Rebecca Clarke
And when I had that one little whiff of success that I‘ve had in my life, with the viola Sonata, the rumour went around, I hear, that I hadn‘t written the stuff myself.
Nadia Boulanger
If there is one thing of which I am certain, it is that my music is worthless.
Scott Gendel Angels
Do I not deal with angels when her lips I touch?
Ellen Mandel Shy one (To an isle in the water)
She carries in the dishes,
And lays them in a row.
Ellen Mandel / Gray Room
I know how furiously your heart is beating.
Jenni Pinnock / Bells in the Rain
The bright drops ring like bells of glass
Daron Hagen / Never pain to tell thy love
Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
Daron Hagen / Washing her hair
In the hallway I listened to conversations
with her friends,
themselves a little closer to the end
Joseph Eidson Good and Bad Children
Cruel children, crying babies
all grow up as geese and gabies.
Hated, as their age increases
by their nephews and their nieces.
Joseph Eidson The Land of Nod
Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day.
Nor can remember plain and clear
the curious music that I hear.
Thomas Deneuville Jacob
He dwelt among “apartments let”
About five stories high
Gabriel Dupont Le silence de l’eau / The silence of the waters
Le silence de l’eau, lyrics by Fernand Gregh le grand jet d’eau qui sanglotait Nuit et jour, âme inconsolée Sous la voute à demi croulée Est mort cette nuit et …
Franz Ries Das verlassene Mägdlein / The foresaken maiden
Früh, wenn die Hähne kräh’n,
Eh’ die Sternlein verschwinden,
Muß ich am Herde stehn,
Muß Feuer zünden.
Franz Ries Nachtlied / Night song
Dürft’ ich mit dir dort oben gehn?
Alfred Bruneau La Sarabande
You would dance, you bastards,
Another Sarabande
Two feet above the cobblestone.
Alfred Bruneau La Pavane
Splendour golden and red and blue
Of a nameless diamond
The peacock miraculously
Unfolds its wide tail
Alfred Bruneau Le Passe-pied
C’est pour ta bouche…Que je me meurs!
Julian Aguirre Caminito / Path
Path, path
so like my sorrow
as if someone had written it
with my tears in the sand
Charles-Marie Widor Ritournelle/Refrain
And love will enhance our fantasy,
Making on this day summer even fairer
I’ll be poet, and you poetry
Wilhelm Stenhammar Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte/The girl came from meeting her lover
“Why are your hands so red, my girl?”
The girl said: “I was picking roses
and stung my hands on the thorns.”
Wilhelm Stenhammar Till en ros / To a rose
Oh, he is far away from me
behind the leaves of three forests,
behind the waves of three rivers.
Wilhelm Stenhammar I skogen / In the forest
But teach me, little violet, sweet as yours
a sorrow when happiness has ended.
Pauline Viardot L’absence / The absence
Without rest, without hope?
Does living mean suffering?
Pauline Viardot L’absence / The absence
Without rest, without hope?
Does living mean suffering?
Pauline Viardot Madrid
Now, if you want to know
How I made this conquest,
It was the allure of my horse,
A compliment on her mantilla
And some vanilla bonbons
One beautiful evening of carnival
Marion Bauer The Driftwood Fire
Soothed by silence sweet, caressing
Brought the wonder of God’s blessing
Very near
Marion Bauer Coyote Song
For the dawn is gray
And another day
Has faded the red, red moon.
Amanda Maier Den sjuka flickans sång /The song of the sick maiden
Oh, when nothing more can save you
it is better to lie in silence
under a fir tree, finally in peace
Ellen Mandel Shy one (To an isle in the water)
She carries in the dishes,
And lays them in a row.
Ellen Mandel / Gray Room
I know how furiously your heart is beating.
Jenni Pinnock / Bells in the Rain
The bright drops ring like bells of glass
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl Aftnen er stille / Evening is still
Evening is still
the hours fall
silently through eternal space
Agathe Backer-Gröndahl Selmas tankar i våren / Selma’s thoughts in springtime
What is your longing, my flowers?
Who are you waiting for?
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl Fågelns visa / The little bird’s song
And the birds still sings today
If the sweetheart came, I don’t know
And nor does the angel !
Poldowski / Lady Dean / Regine Wieniawski Berceuse d’Armorique
– Sing your song, sing, old woman!
The moon is rising and the sea is awakening.
Vítezslava Kaprálová Smutny večer / Cold evening
Cold evening,
there in the silence is the weeping from long ago.
Agathe Backer Grøndahl Til mit Hjertes Dronning / To the queen of my heart
Oh, I’ll whisper there,
In the cool night air,
What I dare not in broad daylight!
Agathe Backer-Gröndahl Lyse Nætter / Light nights
Happy in a melancholy way
The light nights, oh, those light nights!
Cyril Scott Nocturne
To think that spring should wake
And I not know.
Marion Bauer The Driftwood Fire
Soothed by silence sweet, caressing
Brought the wonder of God’s blessing
Very near
Marion Bauer Coyote Song
For the dawn is gray
And another day
Has faded the red, red moon.
Scott Gendel Angels
Do I not deal with angels when her lips I touch?
Ellen Mandel Shy one (To an isle in the water)
She carries in the dishes,
And lays them in a row.
Ellen Mandel / Gray Room
I know how furiously your heart is beating.
Charles Griffes Symphony in Yellow
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly
Amy Beach The Lotos Isles
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Joseph Joachim Merlin’s Song
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
Arthur Sullivan / Gone!
Gone till the end of the year!
Daron Hagen / Never pain to tell thy love
Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
Daron Hagen / Washing her hair
In the hallway I listened to conversations
with her friends,
themselves a little closer to the end
Gabriel Dupont Le silence de l’eau / The silence of the waters
Le silence de l’eau, lyrics by Fernand Gregh le grand jet d’eau qui sanglotait Nuit et jour, âme inconsolée Sous la voute à demi croulée Est mort cette nuit et …
Alfred Bruneau La Sarabande
You would dance, you bastards,
Another Sarabande
Two feet above the cobblestone.
Alfred Bruneau La Pavane
Splendour golden and red and blue
Of a nameless diamond
The peacock miraculously
Unfolds its wide tail
Alfred Bruneau Le Passe-pied
C’est pour ta bouche…Que je me meurs!
Charles-Marie Widor Ritournelle/Refrain
And love will enhance our fantasy,
Making on this day summer even fairer
I’ll be poet, and you poetry
Pauline Viardot L’absence / The absence
Without rest, without hope?
Does living mean suffering?
Pauline Viardot Madrid
Now, if you want to know
How I made this conquest,
It was the allure of my horse,
A compliment on her mantilla
And some vanilla bonbons
One beautiful evening of carnival
Hector Panizza En Sourdine / Silently
Let’s unite our hearts, our souls,
and our senses in ecstasy
Hector Panizza Il pleure dans mon coeur / It rains in my heart
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville
Vincent d’Indy Lied Maritime / Sea song
Far away the sun fades into the ocean
and the sea is calm and without movement
Benjamin Godard Chanson de Malherbe
Gods, friends of innocence
What have I done to deserve
the pain, when this absence
makes me despair
Benjamin Godard J’hai perdu ma tourterelle / I’ve lost my turtledove
I have lost my turtledove…
Franz Ries Das verlassene Mägdlein / The foresaken maiden
Früh, wenn die Hähne kräh’n,
Eh’ die Sternlein verschwinden,
Muß ich am Herde stehn,
Muß Feuer zünden.
Franz Ries Nachtlied / Night song
Dürft’ ich mit dir dort oben gehn?
Erich Meyer-Helmund Das Zauberlied / The Magic Song
Denn seit dem Tag, an dem ich schied,
von ew’ger Lieb’ bezwungen:
Hör’ ich, ach, nur dein Zauberlied
tief in mein Herz gesungen.
Panscho Vladigerov Lied der Heitang und des Prinzen Pao/Song of Heitang and the Prince Pao
Close the cage! Guard the house!
Or the bird will fly out into the forest!
Charles-Marie Widor Rude maestro / Rude master
Pain must be to man
a fatal destiny.
Panscho Vladigerov Lied der Jau / Jau’s Song
To please all men
Im all made up and pretty
When they babble their wishes
I turn away inside
Panscho Vladigerov Lied der Heitang / Heitang’s Song
No more kisses. No more smiles.
Ignaz Brüll Herab von den Bergen / Down from the mountains
Herab von den Bergen zum Tale, Vom Tal zu den Höhen hinan,
So zieh’ ich wohl tausendmale, Der Frühling zieht mir voran.
Eduard Lassen Allerseelen / All Souls’ Day
Give me your hand, that I can secretly press it
And if it is seen, I don’t care
Eduard Lassen Frühlingsgruß / Greeting Spring
There is a Mountain on fire
In the blaze of morning!
Foerster, Josef An die Laute / To the Lute
Let the confidante hear you,
but not the neighbours!
Richard Heuberger Der Spielmann / The Minstrel
Tell him, a girl thinks of him,
thinks day and night of nothing else.
Widor, Charles-Marie La bianchina
“E se voleste darmi un po d’amore
vi chiamerei la donna del mio core.”
Charles-Marie Widor Dimmi perché / Tell me why
Dimmi perché se guardo il firmamento
in ogni stella tu mi sei presente?
Arturo Toscanini Fior di siepe / Hedgeblossom
And without a smile of hope
my unknown love dies!
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Rispetto III
As delicate as an angel, fresh and beautiful
that‘s how your mother made you!
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Rispetto I
Now, that our love has begun,
love me a little, polite boy
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl Aftnen er stille / Evening is still
Evening is still
the hours fall
silently through eternal space
Julian Aguirre Caminito / Path
Path, path
so like my sorrow
as if someone had written it
with my tears in the sand
Julian Aguirre Rosas Orientales / Oriental Roses
View PostFederico Mompou Asserin, asseran
Asserin, asseran, the lumberjacks of San Juan
Federico Mompou Pastoral
For the night I must go to you
like the light over the hills
Wilhelm Stenhammar Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte/The girl came from meeting her lover
“Why are your hands so red, my girl?”
The girl said: “I was picking roses
and stung my hands on the thorns.”
Wilhelm Stenhammar Till en ros / To a rose
Oh, he is far away from me
behind the leaves of three forests,
behind the waves of three rivers.
Wilhelm Stenhammar I skogen / In the forest
But teach me, little violet, sweet as yours
a sorrow when happiness has ended.
Ture Rangström I dina händers mjuka fågelbo / In the soft birds’ nest of your hands
In the soft birds’ nest of your hands
my worries sleep – all is peace.
Ture Rangström Den enda stunden / One single moment
A day disappears
a year goes by
Emil Sjögren Tänd Stjärnor! / Light up the stars!
I want to dress my heart in mourning to dim its beat
Emil Sjögren Du skulle få vad allra fagrast sänder / You should have all the beauty
You should have all the beauty
of clear and sunny may
Ture Rangström Vinden och Trädet / The wind and the tree
The sun gets out of bed
her cheeks glowing morning red
Do you think I can be strict with you
even though you flew like the wind?
Ture Rangström Flickan under nymånen
He is young like me,
he is warm like me,
he is wonderful and strong like nobody
Agathe Backer-Gröndahl Selmas tankar i våren / Selma’s thoughts in springtime
What is your longing, my flowers?
Who are you waiting for?
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl Fågelns visa / The little bird’s song
And the birds still sings today
If the sweetheart came, I don’t know
And nor does the angel !
Lars-Erik Larsson Allmänna Salen / General Ward
Dont tremble, don’t cry
It’s just the way things happen when you die,
you see